Descriptive summary
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creator:
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title:
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Woman Suffrage
Collection |
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dates:
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1916-1919, n.d. |
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extent:
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0.21 linear ft.
(1 half-document box) |
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collection number:
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MS 471 |
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repository:
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Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.
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Administrative
information
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access:
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Open for research
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publication rights:
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Consult Head, Special Collections Department
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preferred
citation:
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Woman Suffrage Collection,
MS 471, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.
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Historical
note
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The woman suffrage movement in the United
States started in the mid-nineteenth century. The first women's
rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 July
1848. In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association was formed
under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
in order to agitate for a Constitutional amendment. Also in 1869
the American Woman Suffrage Association was organized under the
leadership of Lucy Stone; this association focused on working with
state legislatures. The two societies combined to form the National
American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. Among the leaders of
the NAWSS was Carrie Chapman Catt.
A number of
individual states and territories granted voting rights to women
starting with the Wyoming Territory in 1869. A woman suffrage
amendment to the Iowa state constitution was on the ballot in the
Iowa primary election of June 1916, but the amendment was defeated.
In June 1919,
the United States Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment
guaranteeing that the right to vote could not be denied on account
of sex. Nationwide woman suffrage became a reality when the
Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on 26 August 1920 after Tennessee
became the thirty-sixth state to approve the amendment. |
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Collection description
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This collection (1916-1919, n.d.) contains materials related to the
woman suffrage movement in Iowa and the United States. It includes
printed material supporting the equal suffrage amendment on the
ballot in the June 1916 Iowa primary election, blank enrollment
cards for the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association and the Boone County
(Iowa) Suffrage Association, a 1919 newspaper article from the New
York Sun, and postcards of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The materials
were received from the Iowa State University Carrie Chapman Catt
Center for Women and Politics. |
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Organization
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The
collection is organized alphabetically.
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Container list
| Box
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Folder |
Title |
Dates |
| 1 |
1 |
Boone
County Suffrage Association: Enrollment slips (blank) and "Vote for
the Amendment" envelopes |
1916,
n.d. |
| 1 |
2 |
Envelopes with slogan "Vote for the Suffrage Amendment June 5" |
1916 |
| 1 |
3 |
Iowa
Equal Suffrage Association enrollment cards (blank) |
n.d. |
| 1 |
4 |
"New
York's 'Town Hall' a Monument to Woman Suffrage Victory" article
reprinted from The Sun 7 December 1919 |
1919 |
| 1 |
5 |
Postcards: Susan B. Anthony portrait and quote |
n.d. |
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