New York Woman Suffrage collection
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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
- Cannon, Henry White, Mrs. (Person)
- Miller, Alice Duer. (Person)
- Howe, Frederic C., Mrs. (Person)
- Frank, Florence Kiper. (Person)
- Trimble, Jessie. (Person)
- New York Woman Suffrage Association. Sixth District (Delaware County) (Organization)
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
- Child labor.
- Consumers\' League
- Delaware County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
- Delhi (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Hale, Beatrice Forbes Robertson.
- Minimum wage.
- New York State Woman Suffrage Association
- Owens, Harriet B.
- Women -- Suffrage -- New York (State) -- Delaware County.
- Women -- Suffrage -- New York (State) -- Delhi.
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- Societies, etc.
- Women -- Suffrage.
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu