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New York Woman Suffrage collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8041

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes (1) flyers and broadsides: "Attention!...Cakes for Sale" [ca. 1914]; "Votes for Women 46th Annual Convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association and General Conference of New York State Suffragists" [ca. 1914]; "Equal Suffrage One Section of the State Wide Pilgrimage" [ca. 1914]; "TONIGHT Votes for Women Hancock is highly honored to have Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale..." [ca. 1914-1915]; "To-Morrow Night Tues, Oct. 5th at Opera House A Mass Meeting in the Cause of Equal Suffrage" [ca. 1915]: "Important Meeting Tonight!..." [ca. 1914-1915]; "Constitution Explained" [ca. 1914-1915]; and, "To the Delegates of the National Woman Suffrage Association;" (2) a suffrage enrollment mailing with a flyer ("Explanatory"), "All Year Round Resolutions for Suffragists" by Alice Duer Miller; and an enrollment card with a blank return envelope; (3) a fair copy of "The Widow's Thirds" by Aunt Patty, a verse monologue dramatizing unfair probate laws which deny equity to widows and the typescript of cheerful doggerel promoting "The Equal Suffrage Headquarters" available to all-comers in Delhi; (4) three suffrage plays: typescript of Mrs. Frederic C. Howe's THE PERFECT LADY; typescript of Florence Kiper's CINDERELLINE OR THE LITTLE RED SLIPPERS; and a copy of Jessie Trimble's THE END OF THE BATTLE; (5) typescripts of drafts for speeches and reports on grassroots initiatives in Delaware County, principally during 1914; and (6) two broadsides related to the work of the Consumers' League on child labor and minimum wage standards.

Dates

  • 1914-1915.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Collection is likely the archive of Mrs. Henry White Cannon (Jennie O. Curtis), who chaired the Delaware County Committee of the New York Woman Suffrage Association, Sixth District. The Committee, based in Delhi, N.Y. (the county seat of Delaware County) formed in 1913. It includes materials distributed as part of its organizing efforts together with reports on its success. The Sixth District was headed by Harriet B. Owens, who received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1910.

Extent

.1 cubic feet. (.1 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Includes flyers and broadsides regarding Woman Suffrage movement.

Physical Description

Printed Materials, Publications

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
July 2010
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, July 2010
Date modified:
Kristen Reichenbach, November 2017
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by E. Wharton & Co.
Date
July 2010
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)