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Alice Mayer Stetten papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00153
Overview Alice Mayer Stetten was a civic leader, pacifist, philanthropist, and international relations specialist. Papers consist primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, and memorabilia documenting Stetten's work with the American-Korean Foundation, the American Women's Association's Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund, the Common Council for American Unity (later called American Council for Nationalities Service), the National Council of Women, the Overseas Education Fund of the League...
Dates: 1930 - 1972
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Carrie Chapman Catt papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00031
Overview Suffragist, president, National American Women Suffrage Association, and pacifist. Papers relate primarily to Catt's public life, primarily her work as president of both the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. There is a significant amount of material pertaining to her peace activities. There is also a rich collection of photographs, including many of the Women's Land Army, created in Great Britain during World War II to aid in the war...
Dates: 1880-1958
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Florence Rose papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00134
Overview Public relations specialist; executive secretary; Director, Meals for Millions; birth control activist; and lobbyist. Major subjects reflected in the Rose papers include the birth control movement in the U.S., relations between African-Americans and Planned Parenthood, the politics of American hunger relief and prevention efforts in developing countries, and the life and legacy of Margaret Sanger. Individuals represented in the papers include Margaret Sanger, Pearl S. Buck, Havelock Ellis,...
Dates: 1832 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1920-1969
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Helen Tufts Bailie papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00009
Overview Social reformer and radical. Bailie's extensive journals document her experimentation with anarchism, vegetarianism, companionate marriage and daily life during two World Wars. The collection also documents the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) blacklisting controversies; the ''Red Scare'' of the 1920s; the fight to repeal the Teacher's Loyalty Oath in Massachusetts; and the W.B. Shearer controversy on naval disarmament. Individuals represented in the collection include DAR president,...
Dates: 1864 - 1959
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

International Alliance of Women records

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00313
Overview Approximately half of the collection consists of programs and other material related to biennial conferences, in particular the 12th Congress held in Istanbul, 1935. Material from this Congress includes committee reports and resolutions, correspondence, programs, publicity, speeches, and memorabilia. Documentation for other conferences is more sparse, consisting mainly of programs. There are also official conference reports (1906-61) and general documents such as agendas, publicity, position...
Dates: 1906 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1973
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Jacqueline Van Voris papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00166
Overview Biographer and Historian. This small collection primarily contains reseach materials for Van Voris's books. Included are audio tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with Mildred Adams Kenyon, Mary Gray Peck Koehler, Mildred Scott Olmstead, Alice Loomis Clayton, and Louisa K. Fast, some with related correspondence and other materials, such as photographs of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt. Also included is Van Voris's typed, unpublished manuscript "Quiet Victory: The Waves in...
Dates: 1944-1987
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Josephine Schain papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00139
Overview Settlement house worker, suffragist, pacifist, and international relations specialist. Papers focus primarily on Schain's involvement in a host of women's organizations, the purpose of which was advocacy of international peace through cooperative enterprise among nations. Types of material include radio broadcasts scripts, speeches, photographs, articles, and other writings. Notable correspondents include Margaret Corbett Ashby, Mary Ritter Beard, Carrie Chapman Catt (extensive), Newton Diehl...
Dates: 1907 - 1960
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Portia Willis Fitzgerald papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00380
Overview Woman's club leader, suffragist and lecturer. Much of the collection appears to have been part of a scrapbook. Writings and speeches primarily relate to her father (Colonel and U.S. Representative Benjamin A. Willis), the League of Nations, suffrage, the Institute of Human Relations, and women's clubs. Correspondents include Gertrude Atherton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Florence G. Tuttle.
Dates: 1868-1966; Majority of material found within 1910-1935
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Susan B. Anthony papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00005
Overview Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, feminist, temperance leader, and abolitionist. Anthony began her political career with the Women's New York State Temperance Society, and became involved in women's rights, suffrage, and the abolitionist movements. The bulk of the collection consists of material by outside parties about Anthony, including biographical material; published writings by Anthony; memorabilia; correspondence; autograph collection; and photographs.
Dates: 1850 - 1979
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Vera Wadsworth Beggs papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00015
Overview Pacifist; Suffragist; Civic leader; International relations specialist. This small collection of Vera Beggs' papers includes extensive correspondence to and from Carrie Chapman Catt describing women's rights and peace activism and organizations.
Dates: 1932-1969
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

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