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A Guide to the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records, 1908-1938 Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records, 1908-1938 22002

A Guide to the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records, 1908-1938

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Accession Number 22002


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Accession Number
22002
Title
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records, 1908-1938
Extent
13.5 cu. ft. (31 boxes)
Creator
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records, 1908-1938. Accession 22002. Organization records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Ida Mae Thompson, Richmond, Virginia.

Alternative Form Available

Materials in Boxes 1-15 and 20, as well as Box 24, Folders 22-23, 29, 31, 33-34, are available in digital format through the finding aid.

Historical Information

The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was organized in 1909 in Richmond, Virginia. Its primary purpose was to publicize and propagandize women's issues in the state, with the goal to win the political vote. Virginia was one of the six states which did not ratify the amendment. The final board meeting of the Equal Suffrage League was on November 8, 1920, and it became the League of Women Voters on November 10, 1920.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1908-1938, of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, including correspondence, organization records for both the Equal Suffrage League and the League of Women Voters, printed materials, "Votes for Women" buttons, and postcards.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

I: Correspondence, 1909-1933 II: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records III: National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) IV: League of Women Voters of Virginia V: National League of Women Voters VI: General and Miscellaneous files VII: Ephemera

Related Material

See also League of Women Voters of Virginia records, 1920-2011 (LVA accession 39487).

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Contents List

Series I: Correspondence , 1909-1933 .
Boxes 1-4
Extent: 4 boxes.

Correspondence, 1909-1933, contains letters, postcards, telegrams, and other papers consisting of correspondence between officers of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, its local chapters, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association, as well as other organizations and individuals. Also includes some correspondence relating to the League of Women Voters at the state, local, and national levels. Includes professional and personal correspondence of Ida Mae Thompson, Jessie Townsend, Alice M. Tyler, and others.

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Series II: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia .
Boxes 5-15
Extent: 11 boxes.

Equal Suffrage League of Virginia records contain state league constitution; yearbooks; meeting minutes; state convention programs; reports; resolutions; financial records; issues of the Virginia Suffrage News ; news bulletins; booklets, pamphlets, broadsides, and flyers; calling cards, pledge cards; and membership lists. Series also contains information on the Virginia General Assembly, as well as records from local chapters throughout Virginia.

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Series III: National American Woman Suffrage Association records , 1910-1920 .
Boxes 16-19
Extent: 4 boxes.

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) contains NAWSA convention programs and proceedings, 1910-1921; constitutions; yearbook; reports; proclamations; recommendations; press releases; history; notes; bulletin; essays; study guides; travel kits; suffrage schools; publications, pamphlets, leaflets, and broadsides; subscription offer; fundraiser; Jeannette Rankin; Susan B. Anthony; and invitations. Also includes materials from NAWSA state and local chapters, other than Virginia.

  • Box 16 Folder 1
    Convention program, 1910
  • Box 16 Folder 2
    Convention program, 1912
  • Box 16 Folder 3
    Convention program, 1913
  • Box 16 Folder 4
    Convention program and ballot, 1914
  • Box 16 Folder 5
    Convention program and call, 1915
  • Box 16 Folder 6
    Convention program, 1916
  • Box 16 Folder 7
    Convention program, 1917
  • Box 16 Folder 8
    Convention call, schedule, and ballot, 1917
  • Box 16 Folder 9
    Convention program, 1920 (also Congress of the League of Women Voters)
  • Box 16 Folder 10
    Victory convention, February 1920
  • Box 16 Folder 11
    Convention program, undated
  • Box 16 Folder 12
    Convention proceedings, 1912
  • Box 16 Folder 13
    Convention proceedings, 1913
  • Box 16 Folder 14
    Convention proceedings, 1914
  • Box 16 Folder 15
    Convention proceedings, 1915
  • Box 16 Folder 16
    Convention proceedings, 1916
  • Box 16 Folder 17
    Convention proceedings, 1917
  • Box 17 Folder 1
    Convention proceedings and handbook, 1921
  • Box 17 Folder 2
    Constitutions, 1913, 1919, undated
  • Box 17 Folder 3
    Yearbook, 1917
  • Box 17 Folder 4
    Treasurer's report, 1920
  • Box 17 Folder 5
    Report of committee on petition to Congress, ca. 1909
  • Box 17 Folder 6
    Woman's Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1920
  • Box 17 Folder 7
    Recommendations, ca. 1920
  • Box 17 Folder 8
    Candidates for NAWSA organizion offices
  • Box 17 Folder 9
    Press releases, 1914-1919
  • Box 17 Folder 10
    Press releases, February-September 1920
  • Box 17 Folder 11
    Press releases, [1920]
  • Box 17 Folder 12
    Press releases, undated
  • Box 17 Folder 13
    Materials on The History of Woman Suffrage
  • Box 17 Folder 14
    Suffrage Agriculture--Home and Garden notes I--Suggestions for Work to Increase the Food Supply
  • Box 17 Folder 15
    Bulletin, number 22, 14 August 1918
  • Box 17 Folder 16
    Essays
  • Box 17 Folder 17
    Study guide, 1919
  • Box 17 Folder 18
    Woman's Journal and Suffrage News Traveling Kampaign Kit--suffrage literature
  • Box 17 Folder 19
    Woman's Journal and Suffrage News Traveling Kampaign Kit--collected answers to antis
  • Box 17 Folder 20
    National Suffrage Schools--Virginia, 1917
  • Box 17 Folder 21
    National Suffrage Schools--Maine
  • Box 17 Folder 22
    "A School of Political Education for Women, " 19-26 February 1920
  • Box 17 Folder 23
    "League of Women Voters Bulletin of the Committee on Food Supply and Demand, " February 1920
  • Box 17 Folder 24
    "The Declaration of Independence, " 1914
  • Box 17 Folder 25
    "The [Stanley] Bowdle Speech, " 12 January 1915
  • Box 17 Folder 26
    "A Petition for Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment One Thousand Signers, " 1917
  • Box 17 Folder 27
    Catalogs--publications, plays, etc.
  • Box 17 Folder 28
    Sample book of pamphlets and leaflets
  • Box 18 Folder 1
    Pamphlets-- "What Women Might Do With the Ballot " series
  • Box 18 Folder 2
    Pamphlets-- "Eminent Opinions on Suffrage " (three distinct editions)
  • Box 18 Folder 3
    Pamphlets--Alice Stone Blackwell
  • Box 18 Folder 4
    Pamphlets--Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Box 18 Folder 5
    Pamphlets--Ida Husted Harper
  • Box 18 Folder 6
    Pamphlets-- "Woman Suffrage in England "--Annie G. Porritt
  • Box 18 Folder 7
    Pamphlets--Authors B-F
  • Box 18 Folder 8
    Pamphlets--Authors H-M
  • Box 18 Folder 9
    Pamphlets--Authors N-Y
  • Box 18 Folder 10
    Pamphlets--no author listed
  • Box 18 Folder 11
    Leaflets-- "Directions to Officers of the Local Clubs, " "Constitution for the Local Associations, " and "Political District Organization "
  • Box 18 Folder 12
    Leaflets-- "What to Read on Suffrage, " March, May 1912
  • Box 18 Folder 13
    Leaflets--Alice Stone Blackwell
  • Box 18 Folder 14
    Leaflets--Authors A-H
  • Box 18 Folder 15
    Leaflets--Authors K-Z
  • Box 18 Folder 16
    Leaflets--no author
  • Box 18 Folder 17
    Leaflets, mounted--Authors A-Blackwell
  • Box 18 Folder 18
    Leaflets, mounted--Authors Blake-D
  • Box 18 Folder 19
    Leaflets, mounted--Authors F-N
  • Box 19 Folder 1
    Leaflets, mounted--Authors O-U
  • Box 19 Folder 2
    Leaflets, mounted--no authors
  • Box 19 Folder 3
    Broadsides (folder 1 of 3)
  • Box 19 Folder 4
    Broadsides (folder 2 of 3)
  • Box 19 Folder 5
    Broadsides (folder 3 of 3)
  • Box 19 Folder 6
    Broadsides, foreign language
  • Box 19 Folder 7
    Woman's Journal issues and subscription offers, 1909-1910, 1912, undated
  • Box 19 Folder 8
    Magazine fundraiser form
  • Box 19 Folder 9
    Jeannette Rankin
  • Box 19 Folder 10
    Celebration of Susan B. Anthony's 86th birthday, 15 February 1906
  • Box 19 Folder 11
    Invitations, 11 December [1917?], 5 December [1919?]
  • Box 19 Folder 12
    Alabama Equal Suffrage Association
  • Box 19 Folder 13
    Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
  • Box 19 Folder 14
    Business Women's Equal Suffrage League (St. Louis, Missouri)
  • Box 19 Folder 15
    College Equal Suffrage League
  • Box 19 Folder 16
    Collegiate Equal Suffrage League of New York State calendars, 1910
  • Box 19 Folder 17
    Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
  • Box 19 Folder 18
    Equal Franchise Society of Pennsylvania
  • Box 19 Folder 19
    Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
  • Box 19 Folder 20
    Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
  • Box 19 Folder 21
    Kentucky Equal Rights Association--National Congressional Campaign Conference of Kentucky, 27-28 March 1916
  • Box 19 Folder 22
    Maryland State Equal Suffrage League
  • Box 19 Folder 23
    Massachusetts Political Equality Union
  • Box 19 Folder 24
    New England Woman Suffrage Association
  • Box 19 Folder 25
    North Carolina Equal Suffrage League
  • Box 19 Folder 26
    Ohio Equal Franchise Association
  • Box 19 Folder 27
    Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
  • Box 19 Folder 28
    South Dakota [Equal Suffrage Association?]
  • Box 19 Folder 29
    West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association
  • Box 19 Folder 30
    Woman Suffrage Association of the State of Maryland
  • Box 19 Folder 31
    [Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association?] calendar, 1912
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Series IV: League of Women Voters of Virginia , 1920-1938 .
Box 20
Extent: 1 box.

Virginia League of Women Voters records contain constitutions and bylaws; financial statements and pledges; resolutions; state conferences and conventions; Know Your League papers, bulletins; press releases; speeches of Jessie Townsend and others; state elections; education programs; leaflets and broadsides; enrollement forms and other papers. There are also papers and records for the Norfolk and Richmond chapters of the League.

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Series V: National League of Women Voters .
Boxes 20-22
Extent: 3 boxes.

National League of Women Voters records contain organization plans; ballots; by-laws; convention and conference programs; reports and recommendations; bulletins, newsletters, and press releases; and other publications. Also includes publications and papers from states and localities (other than Virginia).

  • Box 20 Folder 41
    Organization plan, ca. 1920
  • Box 20 Folder 42
    By-laws
  • Box 20 Folder 43
    Official ballot, undated
  • Box 20 Folder 44
    Fourth annual convention, 9-14 April 1923
  • Box 20 Folder 45
    Fourth annual convention--speech of Florence E. Allen, 11 April 1923
  • Box 20 Folder 46
    Fifth annual convention--local president's dinner, 24 April 1924
  • Box 20 Folder 47
    Sixth annual convention, [April?] 1925
  • Box 20 Folder 48
    Seventh annual convention, 14-21 April 1926
  • Box 20 Folder 49
    Tenth national convention, 22-30 April 1932
  • Box 20 Folder 50
    Child welfare conference, [February 1920?]
  • Box 20 Folder 51
    Third region--regional conference, 8-9 February 1921
  • Box 20 Folder 52
    Ninth conference on the cause and cure of war, 1933-1934
  • Box 20 Folder 53
    Committee on American citizenship recommendations, [1920?]
  • Box 20 Folder 54
    Child welfare committee
  • Box 20 Folder 55
    Report covering "delinquents, minors, and defectives "
  • Box 20 Folder 56
    Committee on food supply and demand recommendation, 16 February 1920
  • Box 20 Folder 57
    Committee on unification of laws concerning the legal status of women, [1920?]
  • Box 20 Folder 58
    Women in industry department report, 14 February 1920
  • Box 20 Folder 59
    "League News, " February 1931, April 1935
  • Box 20 Folder 60
    Third region newsletter, 11 January 1932
  • Box 20 Folder 61
    Press releases, 1920, 1929
  • Box 21 Folder 1
    "Achievements of the Years, " 1930
  • Box 21 Folder 2
    Voter Service radio program brochures, January-March 1932
  • Box 21 Folder 3
    Lists of publications, 1929, 1935-1937
  • Box 21 Folder 4
    Programs of Work, 1919, 1928-1934, 1936-1938
  • Box 21 Folder 5
    Program of Work--Department of Government and Child Welfare, 1934-1936
  • Box 21 Folder 6
    Program of Work--Department of Government and Economic Welfare, 1934-1936
  • Box 21 Folder 7
    Program of Work--Department of Government and International Cooperation, 1934-1936
  • Box 21 Folder 8
    Program of Work--Department of Government and Its Operation, 1934-1936
  • Box 21 Folder 9
    Program of Work--Department of Government and the Legal Status of Women, 1934-1936
  • Box 21 Folder 10
    "Know Your League, " 1930, 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 11
    Department of Efficiency in Government-- "Budget Making and Administration: With Special Reference to Cities, " 1933
  • Box 21 Folder 12
    Department of Efficiency in Government-- "Constructive Economy in Local Government, " 1933
  • Box 21 Folder 12
    Department of Efficiency in Government-- "Know Your County, " undated
  • Box 21 Folder 14
    Committee on Child Welfare-- "The Background of Our Child Labor Problem, " 1929
  • Box 21 Folder 15
    Committee on Child Welfare-- "Community Care for the Health of the Mother and Young Child, " 1932
  • Box 21 Folder 16
    Department of Child Welfare-- "Children in Industry, " 1934
  • Box 21 Folder 17
    Department of Government and Child Welfare-- "Mothers' Aid, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 18
    Department of Government and Child Welfare-- "School Attendance Laws in the United States, " April 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 19
    Department of Government and Economic Welfare-- "Buyers Beware, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 20
    Department of Government and Economic Welfare-- "Government and the Consumer, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 21
    Department of Government and Education-- "Large City School Systems, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 22
    Department of Government and Education-- "The Public Library as a Government Service, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 23
    Department of Government and Education-- "School Attendance Laws in the United States, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 24
    Special Committee on Immigration Problems-- "New Immigration and Naturalization Legislation, " 1929
  • Box 21 Folder 25
    Special Committee on Immigration Problems-- "Immigration and Naturalization Legislation 1924-1932, " 1933
  • Box 21 Folder 26
    Department of Government and International Cooperation-- "The Conduct of the Foreign Policy of the United States, " 1931
  • Box 21 Folder 27
    Department of Government and International Cooperation-- "Control of the Munitions Traffic, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 28
    Department of Government and International Cooperation to Prevent War-- "The Root Formula and the World Court, " 1930
  • Box 21 Folder 29
    Department of Government and Its Operation-- "Trained Personnel for Public Service, " 1935
  • Box 21 Folder 30
    Committee on the Legal Status of Women-- "Against Equal Rights by Constitutional Amendment: A Reply, " 1928
  • Box 22 Folder 1
    Committee on the Legal Status of Women-- "Toward Equal Rights for Men and Women, " 1929
  • Box 22 Folder 2
    Committee on the Legal Status of Women-- "Women's Liability for Jury Service, " 1932
  • Box 22 Folder 3
    Department on the Legal Status of Women-- "The Nationality of Children, " 1933
  • Box 22 Folder 4
    Department of Government and the Legal Status of Women-- "The Married Woman and Her Job, " 1936
  • Box 22 Folder 5
    Committee on Women in Industry-- A Federal-State Employment Service, 1932
  • Box 22 Folder 6
    Department of Women in Industry-- Industrial Standards for Women Workers, 1933
  • Box 22 Folder 7
    National Personnel Campaign Committee-- A Handbook for the Personnel Campaign, 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 8
    American Neutrality, ca. 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 9
    "Organization for Public Welfare, " 1936
  • Box 22 Folder 10
    "Electing the President, " 1932
  • Box 22 Folder 11
    "The ABC's of Unemployment Compensation, " 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 12
    "Equal Rights or Human Rights?, " 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 13
    "Needed: A New Food and Drug Law, " 1936
  • Box 22 Folder 14
    Pamphlets on League history, organization, and operation
  • Box 22 Folder 15
    Flyer on the bicentennial of George Washington's birth, 1932
  • Box 22 Folder 16
    California-- "The Bulletin of the California League of Women Voters, " January, March 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 17
    Connecticut-- "The Woman Voter's Bulletin, " July-August 1929
  • Box 22 Folder 18
    Illinois-- "The Illinois Voter, " March 1929, February, March 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 19
    Illinois--Cook County-- "The Cook County Citizen, " February 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 20
    Louisiana-- "Louisiana League of Women Voters' Platform, " undated
  • Box 22 Folder 21
    Massachusetts-- "Bulletin, " February-April 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 22
    Minnesota-- "The Minnesota Woman Voter, " July 1929, December 1934-April 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 23
    Missouri-- "The Missouri League News, " July 1929
  • Box 22 Folder 24
    Missouri--St. Louis-- "The League Bulletin, " 9 May, 21 June 1931; January-April 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 25
    New Hampshire-- "The New Hampshire Woman Voter, " January-April 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 26
    New York-- "Weekly News, " January-April 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 27
    New York--Education Section-- "The Next War, "by Will Irwin
  • Box 22 Folder 28
    New York--The Bronx-- "A Money Making Plan, " undated
  • Box 22 Folder 29
    Ohio-- "The Ohio Woman Voter, " June 1930
  • Box 22 Folder 30
    Pennsylvania-- "The Bulletin of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, " August 1929
  • Box 22 Folder 31
    Rhode Island-- "News Letter, " January 1935
  • Box 22 Folder 32
    Wisconsin-- "The Bulletin of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters, " January-April 1935
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Series VI: General and Miscellaneous Files .
Boxes 22-28
Extent: 7 boxes.

General and Miscellaneous Files contain records, papers, and publications of local, state, and national organizations other than the Equal Suffrage League or the League of Women Voters; papers, documents, and publications by local, state, and federal governments; pamphlets, and leaflets, brochures, and broadsides from England and Ireland. Also contains a variety of miscellaneous items including postcards.

  • Boxes 22-24
    Organizations.
    3 boxes
    • Box 22 Folder 33
      Pro-suffrage resolutions from various organizations, 1918-1919
    • Box 22 Folder 34
      Atlanta suffrage organizations--Georgia Harvest Festival--Better Babies Contest, 15-20 November 1915
    • Box 22 Folder 35
      Brookland District Citizens' Association (Henrico County, Virginia) papers, ca. 1932
    • Box 22 Folder 36
      Cambridge Anti-Suffrage Association (Massachusetts)-- "Anti-Suffrage Notes " numbers 138-139, 23 January 1917
    • Box 22 Folder 37
      Conference on Governmental Efficiency (Virginia), 21-22 November 1921
    • Box 22 Folder 38
      Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1915, undated
    • Box 22 Folder 39
      Co-operative Education Association leaflet-- "Home Reading Course "
    • Box 22 Folder 40
      Co-ordinate College for Women (affiliated with the University of Virginia), 1914
    • Box 22 Folder 41
      Democratic Woman's Club souvenier menu, 29 January 1925
    • Box 22 Folder 42
      Daughters of the King "Constitution and Prayers, " "Handbook of the Daughters of the King, " and envelope, 1913, 1916, undated
    • Box 23 Folder 1
      Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America (Virginia chapter) resolution, December 1919
    • Box 23 Folder 2
      Virginia Federation of Labor-- "The Union News Convention Edition, " official yearbook, 2 April 1923
    • Box 23 Folder 3
      Federation of Women's Clubs of Virginia resolution, 1919
    • Box 23 Folder 4
      "Virginia 4-H Club Letter, " February 1934, January-February 1934
    • Box 23 Folder 5
      Ladies' Athenaeum Club (England) rules, by-laws, list of members, 1910
    • Box 23 Folder 6
      League to Enforce Peace-- "What the War Meant to Women " by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
    • Box 23 Folder 7
      Lila Meade Valentine Memorial, 1926-1936
    • Box 23 Folder 8
      Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia letters, 1911-1912
    • Box 23 Folder 9
      Men's League for Woman Suffrage (Virginia) membership lists
    • Box 23 Folder 10
      Men's League for Woman Suffrage pamphlets, 1911, undated
    • Box 23 Folder 11
      Monroe Centennial Memorial Commission, 4 July 1931
    • Box 23 Folder 12
      National Advisory Council on Radio in Education-- "Listen and Learn About your Government: Constructive Economy in Government, " 20 June-26 September 1933
    • Box 23 Folder 13
      National Child Labor Committee-- The Child Labor Bulletin , June 1912
    • Box 23 Folder 14
      National Child Labor Committee pamphlet and leaflets, 1915
    • Box 23 Folder 15
      National Committee to Secure Rank for Nurses bulletins, 1920
    • Box 23 Folder 16
      National Consumers' League pamphlets, 1912, 1933
    • Box 23 Folder 17
      National Consumers' League papers, January 1933, undated
    • Box 23 Folder 18
      [New York City] Consumers' League leaflet, 1908
    • Box 23 Folder 19
      National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs--Old Dominion convention, Traveling Through Historyland, 6--11 July 1931
    • Box 23 Folder 20
      National Federation of Federal Employees press releases, 20-21 August 1920
    • Box 23 Folder 21
      National Kindergarten Association leaflet
    • Box 23 Folder 22
      National Motion Picture League leaflet
    • Box 23 Folder 23
      National Municipal League leaflets, 1911, undated
    • Box 23 Folder 24
      National Woman's Party Campaign Texbook , 1916
    • Box 23 Folder 25
      National Woman's Party (Norfolk branch) report, undated
    • Box 23 Folder 26
      National Women's Trade Union League of America pamphlets, 1918-1919
    • Box 23 Folder 27
      National Women's Trade Union League press release, 3 December 1919
    • Box 23 Folder 28
      Non-Partisan Senatorial Committee (New York) papers, 1920
    • Box 23 Folder 29
      New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage-- "Woman's Relation to Government, ", Mrs. William Forse Scott, 1904
    • Box 23 Folder 30
      Odeon Program, 28 March 1919
    • Box 23 Folder 31
      Progressive Party pamphlets, 1912
    • Box 23 Folder 32
      Progressive Party broadsides, 1912
    • Box 23 Folder 33
      Red Cross
    • Box 23 Folder 34
      Republican National Committee-- "Wanted--A New Business Management for the United States "
    • Box 23 Folder 35
      Richmond Education Association fourth annual report, 1903-1904
    • Box 23 Folder 36
      Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference second annual convention, 11-13 December 1915
    • Box 23 Folder 37
      Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference--Kate Gordon Chapter, Le Jardin de Danse, 14 February [19?]
    • Box 23 Folder 38
      Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference-- "The Southern Problem "
    • Box 23 Folder 39
      State Central Committee of Suffrage Amendment Alliance leaflet, ca. 1917
    • Box 23 Folder 40
      University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs roundtable on unemployment, 10-15 July 1933 (folder 1 of 2)
    • Box 23 Folder 41
      University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs roundtable on unemployment, 10-15 July 1933 (folder 2 of 2)
    • Box 23 Folder 42
      Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute and United States Department of Agriculture, Extension Division-- "Virginia's Defense is in Safe Farming "
    • Box 23 Folder 43
      Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage pamphlets and broadsides
    • Box 23 Folder 44
      Virginia Democratic Party leaflet, 1913
    • Box 23 Folder 45
      Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind commencement exercises, 11-12 June 1912
    • Box 23 Folder 46
      Virginia Women's Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations--stationery and notes
    • Box 24 Folder 1
      Wage Earners' Suffrage League (New York) leaflets
    • Box 24 Folder 2
      Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia 30th annual convention, 30 September-3 October 1912
    • Box 24 Folder 3
      Woman's Club of Chicago-- "Chicago Women as Citizens, " 1910-1911
    • Box 24 Folder 4
      Woman's Club of NorfolkKate Waller Barrett memorial meeting, 30 November [1925?]
    • Box 24 Folder 5
      Woman's Club of Richmond fifteenth annual report, 1909
    • Box 24 Folder 6
      Women's International League annual meeting, 30 April-3 May [1937]
    • Box 24 Folder 7
      Woman's Peace Party-- "The Trojan Women, " Euripides
    • Box 24 Folder 8
      Woman Suffrage Party-- "Home and State "
    • Box 24 Folder 9
      New York State Woman Suffrage Party pamphlets and broadsides
    • Box 24 Folder 10
      New York State Woman Suffrage Party sample ballot, Ulster County, November 1917
    • Box 24 Folder 11
      Woman Suffrage Party of New York City papers, 1916-1917
    • Box 24 Folder 12
      Woman Suffrage Party of New York City "The Woman Voter, " September 1916
    • Box 24 Folder 13
      YWCA papers, 1920-1921
  • Boxes 24-25
    Government publications and papers.
    2 boxes
    • Box 24 Folder 14
      Virginia Constitution, 1908
    • Box 24 Folder 15
      Virginia Constitution--amendments ratified, November 1912
    • Box 24 Folder 16
      Virginia Constitution--proposed amendments, 1912-1916, [1923?], undated
    • Box 24 Folder 17
      Code of Virginia--presidential and vice-presidential electors; tax code, 8 March 1918
    • Box 24 Folder 18
      Code of Virginia--tax bill and revenue act, 8 March 1918
    • Box 24 Folder 19
      Code of Virginia--bills to amend code--rape and seduction, 1918
    • Box 24 Folder 20
      Code of Virginia bill to amend and re-enact section 54, electors for president and vice-president, undated
    • Box 24 Folder 21
      Virginia--general laws amendment for chapter 17, election of electors of president and vice president, [1919]
    • Box 24 Folder 22
      Virginia General Assembly--granting women the right to vote for electors for president and vice president of the United States

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    • Box 24 Folder 23
      Virginia General Assembly--bill extending the right of suffrage to women

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    • Box 24 Folder 24
      Virginia General Assembly--laws bearing on labor, 1 March 1909
    • Box 24 Folder 25
      Virginia General Assembly--an act to provide for indigent widowed mothers, 28 February 1918
    • Box 24 Folder 26
      Virginia General Assembly--a bill to provide for the support of illegitimate children, [1918]
    • Box 24 Folder 27
      Virginia General Assembly--bill to establish a minimum wage for women and minors, [1918]
    • Box 24 Folder 28
      Virginia General Assembly--bill to provide censorshiop for moving pictures, [1918]
    • Box 24 Folder 29
      Virginia General Assembly--Acts of Assemlby chapter 400--women entitled to register, 1920

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    • Box 24 Folder 30
      Virginia General Assembly--digest of bills submitted to the General Assembly by the Children's Code Commission and other agencies, 1921
    • Box 24 Folder 31
      Virginia General Assembly Senate--bills on woman suffrage, child labor

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    • Box 24 Folder 32
      Virginia General Assembly House of Delegates--bills referred (including reference to suffrage), 24 February 1920
    • Box 24 Folder 33
      Virginia General Assembly Senate-joint resolutions, proposed amendments concerning elective franchise and qualifications for office, 1912, 1914, 1916, and undated

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    • Box 24 Folder 34
      Virginia General Assembly--joint resolutions rejecting suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution, undated

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    • Box 24 Folder 35
      Virginia General Assembly--join resolutions regarding ratification of the U.S. suffrage amendment, ca. 1920
    • Box 24 Folder 36
      Virginia General Assembly Senate--Senate joint resolution no. 2 and amendments, [192?]
    • Box 24 Folder 37
      Virginia General Assembly House of Delegates--suffrage resolutions, 1920
    • Box 24 Folder 38
      Virginia General Assembly--joint resolutions on taxation and finance and on poll tax, 1914, undated
    • Box 24 Folder 39
      Virginia General Assembly Senate--joint resolutions on construction of dam at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; school districts; and extra session, 30 January 1918, 1918, 3 August 1919
    • Box 24 Folder 40
      Virginia General Assembly House of Delegates--calendar, 9 March 1914, 28 February, 3, 12 March 1920
    • Box 24 Folder 41
      Virginia General Assembly Senate--calendar, 3, 27 February, 3 March 1920
    • Box 24 Folder 42
      Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth--primary election laws of Virginia, 1915
    • Box 24 Folder 43
      Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration--Farmers' bulletin no. 20 "The Home Vegetable Garden, " undated
    • Box 24 Folder 44
      Industrial Commission of Virginia--Workmen's Compensation Law, 1920
    • Box 24 Folder 45
      Virginia Commission on Simplification and Economy of State and Local Government report, January 1924
    • Box 24 Folder 46
      Richmond-- Annual Report of the Health Department , 1908
    • Box 24 Folder 47
      Richmond-- Annual Report of the Health Department , 1909
    • Box 25 Folder 1
      University of Virginia Record Extension Series-- Conference on Governmental Efficiency , 22-22 November 1921
    • Box 25 Folder 2
      University of Virginia Record Extension Series-- Institute of Citizenship and Government , 18-19 July 1923, 17-20 May 1927
    • Box 25 Folder 3
      University of Virginia Record Extension Series-- Handbook of Electon Law for the Virginia Voter , March 1925
    • Box 25 Folder 4
      United States Congress--speeches on Woman Suffrage, 1915, 1918 Hon. John W. Abercrombie of Alabama (House of Representatives), 12 January 1915; Hon. Perl D. Decker and Hon. Scott Ferris, (House of Representatives), 10 January 1918; and Hon. Morris Sheppard (Senate), 5 August 1918
    • Box 25 Folder 5
      United States Congress-- Congressional Record , 1910, 1919 list of committee members in Senate, 15 Decemeber 1910; Speech of Hon. William P. Pollock (Senate) 10 February 1919
    • Box 25 Folder 6
      United States Congress Senate--memorials, 1909, 1910 memorial of Mr. Vere Goldthwaite, 5 January 1909; memorial of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, 3 May 1910
    • Box 25 Folder 7
      United States Senate--Committee on Woman Suffrage, 1910, 1917 statement of John Shafroth, Governor of Colorado, 1910; extracts of hearing statements by Thomas J. Walsh and Carrie Chapman Catt, 20 April 1917
    • Box 25 Folder 8
      Congress House of Representatives--speech of Hon. John J. Esch of Wisconsin on the Match Bill, 27 February 1911
    • Box 25 Folder 9
      Congress House of Representatives--hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, 1910, 1915-1917 woman suffrage, 19 April 1910; woman suffrage, 16 December 1915, February 1916; views of the minority, 10 January 1917
    • Box 25 Folder 10
      United States Congress--bills and resolutions, 1920, 1924 bill for the public protection of maternity and infancy, 1920; resolution to limit, regulate, and prohibit labor of persons under 18, 28 March 1924
    • Box 25 Folder 11
      United States Civil Works Administration
    • Box 25 Folder 12
      United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education informational letters, ca. 1933-1934
    • Box 25 Folder 13
      United States Department of Labor, Children's Bureau-- "Recent Developments in the Child-Labor Field, " January 1933
    • Box 25 Folder 14
      United States Department of Labor, Woman's Bureau-- "Hours and Conditions of Work for Women in Industry in Virginia, " March 1920
    • Box 25 Folder 15
      United States Department of Labor, United States Employment Service-- "Guide to the Organization and Operation of Reemployment Offices, " 22 July 1933
    • Box 25 Folder 16
      States--Connecticut State Council of Defense, Health and Recreation Bureau chart
    • Box 25 Folder 17
      States--Mississippi State Board of Public Welfare, publications, bulletins, and forms, 1932
    • Box 25 Folder 18
      States--laws referring to woman's suffrage and amendment, 1913-1919 Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee
  • Boxes 25-26
    England, Australia, and International.
    2 boxes
    • Box 25 Folder 19
      "Parliamentary Debates: Women's Enfranchisement Bill, " 5 May 1911
    • Box 25 Folder 20
      Artists' Suffrage League flyer, undated
    • Box 25 Folder 21
      Central Society for Women's Suffrage-- "Women's Suffrage in New Zealand and Australia "
    • Box 25 Folder 22
      The Church League for Women's Suffrage-- "From East to West: Women's Suffrage in Relation to Foreign Missions, " July 1910
    • Box 25 Folder 23
      The Fabian Women's Group-- "How the National Insurance Bill Affects Women "
    • Box 25 Folder 24
      London Society for Women's Suffrage-- "Report of the Executive Committee Presented at the Annual General Meeting, " 8 December 1910
    • Box 25 Folder 25
      London Society for Women's Suffrage pamphlets and leaflets, 1909, undated
    • Box 25 Folder 26
      Men's League for Women's Suffrage-- "Open Letter to the Prime Minister, " June 1910
    • Box 25 Folder 27
      National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies pamphlets and booklets
    • Box 25 Folder 28
      National Women's Social and Political Union programs, 1911, undated
    • Box 25 Folder 29
      National Women's Social and Political Union pamphlets and booklets, titles E-M
    • Box 25 Folder 30
      National Women's Social and Political Union pamphlets and booklets, titles O-W
    • Box 25 Folder 31
      [National]Women's Social and Political Union-- "A Women's Demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall, " 23 March 1911
    • Box 25 Folder 32
      [National] Women's Social and Political Union poster-- "Mrs. Pankhurst Will speak at a Public Meeting, " 3 June [----]
    • Box 25 Folder 33
      National Women's Social and Political Union-- "Woman This , and Woman That "
    • Box 26 Folder 1
      Women's Freedom League--pamphlets
    • Box 26 Folder 2
      Women's National Anti-Suffrage League-- Anti-Suffrage Review , July 1910
    • Box 26 Folder 3
      Women Writers' Suffrage League-- "Why? " 1910
    • Box 26 Folder 4
      Miscellaneous pamphlets-- "A Brief Review of the Women's Suffrage Movement Since Its Beginning " and "Mary Wollstonecraft and the Women's Movement of Today "
    • Box 26 Folder 5
      Miscellaneous flyer and poster-- "Testimony of the Australian Parliament on Equal Suffrage " and "Votes for Women Householders, " February 1910, 1911
    • Box 26 Folder 6
      International Woman Suffrage Alliance-- "Report of the Seventh Congress, " 15-21 June 1913
    • Box 26 Folder 7
      International Woman Suffrage Alliance-- Jus Suffragii , pp. 57-60, 1 January 1914
    • Box 26 Folder 8
      International Woman Suffrage Alliance/New Zealand Council of Women-- "Woman Suffrage in New Zealand, " ca. 1907
  • Boxes 26-27
    General Publications.
    2 boxes
    • Box 26 Folder 9
      Woman Citizen (cover only), 10 May 1919
    • Box 26 Folder 10
      Woman Citizen , 23 April 1921
    • Box 26 Folder 11
      Woman Citizen , 27 January 1923
    • Box 26 Folder 12
      Woman Citizen , 10 January 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 13
      Woman Citizen , 21 March 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 14
      Woman Citizen , 18 April 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 15
      Woman Citizen , 2 May 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 16
      Woman Citizen , 16 May 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 17
      Woman Citizen , 13 June 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 18
      Woman Citizen , 27 June 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 19
      Woman Citizen , 11 July 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 20
      Woman Citizen , 8 August 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 21
      Woman Citizen , September 1925
    • Box 26 Folder 22
      Woman Citizen clippings, 1919, 1922
    • Box 26 Folder 23
      Woman Citizen index (handwritten, typed), 1917-1919
    • Box 26 Folder 24
      The Ave Maria (Notre Dame, Indiana), 23 September 1911
    • Box 26 Folder 25
      College Topics (University of Virginia), 27 April 1910
    • Box 26 Folder 26
      The Delineator , pp. 85-86, 151-152, February 1911
    • Box 26 Folder 27
      The Dixie Suffragist (Moravian Falls, Wilkes County, North Carolina), January 1915
    • Box 26 Folder 28
      Fort Valley Message (Fort Valley, Georgia), January 1935
    • Box 26 Folder 29
      Virginia Law Register , September 1919
    • Box 26 Folder 29
      Shall Women Vote? A Book for Men by Conway Whittle Sams, 1913
    • Box 27 Folder 1
      Pamphlets-- "Ballots for Both, " speech at Greenville, North Carolina, "The Electoral College and Presidential Suffrage, " reprint from the Pennsylvania Law Review , and Votes for Women--Why and Why Not, from the Wilmington Dispatch , by Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina, 8 December 1916, June 1917 and 22 February 1919
    • Box 27 Folder 2
      Pamphlets-- "The Bible on Women Voting; " "Guardianship of Children, " reprint from Chicago Legal News ; "Illinois Laws Concerning Women; " and "Mayors of Five States or Votes for Women a Success, ", by Catharine Waugh McCulloch, undated, 13 January 1912, undated, and February 1909
    • Box 27 Folder 3
      Pamphlets by author-- "Why Women Ought to Desire the Ballot " by James Freeman Clarke; "The Subjection of Women and the Enfranchisement of Women " by Mrs. William H. Felton; "Condorcet's Plea for the Citizenship of Women " by John Morley; and "Women, Economics, and the Ballot " by Frances Squire Potter
    • Box 27 Folder 4
      Reprints from North American Review -- "Woman Suffrage Throughout the World " by Ida Husted Harper, and "Woman and Democracy " by Borden Parker Bowne, September 1907 and April 1910
    • Box 27 Folder 5
      World's Work extracts-- "Selma Lagerlof--Sweden's Idolized Writer " by Velma Swanston Howard; "Woman The Savior of the State " by Selma Lagerlof and translated by Velma Howard; and "The Present Plight of Labor " by a World's Work staffer
    • Box 27 Folder 6
      Pamphlets, no author-- "Woman Suffrage Facts Cartooned; " "Hare System of Proportional Representation; " "The World Court: Fifty Questions Answered; " and "Washington The Nation's Capital "
    • Box 27 Folder 7
      Leaflets--subject: Women Suffrage (10 leaflets)
    • Box 27 Folder 8
      Leaflets-- "Right of Way, " Virginia Railway and Power Company and "White Slave Traffic, " 15 March 1917 and undated
    • Box 27 Folder 9
      Suffrage plays-- "How the Vote Was Won; " "Scenes from Political Life; " "The Soul of the World; " and "The Women of Achievement " (program listing only)
    • Box 27 Folder 10
      Miscellaneous articles on suffrage
    • Box 27 Folder 11
      Hygiene and Morality by Lavinia L. Dock (jacket cover only)
  • Box 27
    Songs and Poetry.
    1 box
    • Box 27 Folder 12
      Suffrage songs by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Eugenie M. Raye-Smith
    • Box 27 Folder 13
      Suffrage Song sheets
    • Box 27 Folder 14
      Poems by Katherine R. Logan, 1932
    • Box 27 Folder 15
      Poems by Berton Bailey, Charlotte M. Conover, Page Snelling, Alice Overbey Taylor, Ellen Glasgow, Alice Johnstone Walker, Max Ehrman, and unknown
  • Box 27
    Postcards.
    1 box
    • Box 27 Folder 16
      Postcards-- "The Awakening " (Equal Suffrage League of Virginia)--photocopy, original located in Box 1, Folder 6
    • Box 27 Folder 17
      Postcards-- "Bread and Roses " (Equal Suffrage League of Virginia)
    • Box 27 Folder 18
      Postcards-- "Woman's Hour " (Equal Suffrage League of Virginia)
    • Box 27 Folder 19
      Postcards-- "Votes for Women a Success North America Proves it " (National Woman Suffrage Publishing)
    • Box 27 Folder 20
      Postcards-- "Politics Is Not Outside the Home in Case of the Milk Supply It's Inside the Body " (Ohio Equal Franchise Association)
    • Box 27 Folder 21
      Postcards-- "Woman's Cause Is Man's. They Rise or Sink Together " (Ohio Equal Franchise Association)
    • Box 27 Folder 22
      Postcards by the Artists' Suffrage League (England)
    • Box 27 Folder 23
      Postcards--Woman's Suffrage Procession, 3 March 1913
    • Box 27 Folder 24
      Postcards-- "A Wish for 1915 "
    • Box 27 Folder 25
      Postcards-- "Anti-Suffrage League "
    • Box 27 Folder 26
      Postcards-- "Merry Xmas Votes for Women "
    • Box 27 Folder 27
      Postcards-- "New Year's Resolutions for Suffragists, " 2 January 1916
    • Box 27 Folder 28
      Postcards-- "The Suffragist Arousing Her Sisters "
    • Box 27 Folder 29
      Postcards-- "To My Valentine! "
    • Box 27 Folder 30
      Postcards-- "Votes for Women "
    • Box 27 Folder 31
      Postcards-- "Votes for Women It Can't Be Did! "
    • Box 27 Folder 32
      Postcards-- "The Spirit of 1776[crossed out] To-Day "
  • Box 27
    Maps and Photographs.
    1 box
    • Box 27 Folder 33
      Maps--Richmond, 1912
    • Box 27 Folder 34
      Maps--Richmond, 1914
    • Box 27 Folder 35
      Maps--Virginia, 1932
    • Box 27 Folder 36
      Photographs
  • Box 28
    Subject and Miscellanous papers.
    1 box
    • Box 28 Folder 1
      Woman Suffrage Parades--Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, 9 May 1914, 31 May 1915
    • Box 28 Folder 2
      List of countries and states with woman suffrage
    • Box 28 Folder 3
      Suffrage in Virginia
    • Box 28 Folder 4
      Notes and documents on states' legal position on suffrage
    • Box 28 Folder 5
      Presidential suffrage
    • Box 28 Folder 6
      Woman suffrage, African American suffrage, and white supremacy
    • Box 28 Folder 7
      General suffrage writings
    • Box 28 Folder 8
      Printed materials on suffrage
    • Box 28 Folder 9
      Virginia politics--Westmoreland Davis, candidate for governor, 1917
    • Box 28 Folder 10
      Virginia politics--Westmoreland Davis, candidate for U.S. Sentate, 1922
    • Box 28 Folder 11
      Virginia politics--Claude A. Swanson, U.S. Senate reelection, 1922
    • Box 28 Folder 12
      Virginia politics--E. Lee Trinkle, campaign for governor and Trinkle Club, Norfolk, 1921
    • Box 28 Folder 13
      Virginia politics--Fred A. M. Burroughs for commissioner of revenue, Princess Anne County; Roanoke Times bolts primary; Philip F. Brown for Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1919; 7 October 1921; undated
    • Box 28 Folder 14
      List of counties that have no health officer or health workers
    • Box 28 Folder 15
      Monumental Church, Richmond
    • Box 28 Folder 16
      Theodore Roosevelt
    • Box 28 Folder 17
      Woodrow Wilson
    • Box 28 Folder 18
      World War
    • Box 28 Folder 19
      "Votes for Women " napkin
    • Box 28 Folder 20
      Membership lists for unidentified groups
    • Box 28 Folder 21
      Notes, etc., (folder 1 of 2)
    • Box 28 Folder 22
      Notes, etc., (folder 2 of 2)
    • Box 28 Folder 23
      Papers--non-suffrage
    • Box 28 Folder 24
      Business cards
    • Box 28 Folder 25
      Calling cards, invitations, etc.
    • Box 28 Folder 26
      Printed materials--fragments
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Series VII: Ephemera .
Boxes 29-30
Extent: 2 boxes.

Ephemera includes printing plate, slides advertising talks, ribbons, pins, and stamps from the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.

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Oversize materials.
Box 31
Extent: 1 box.

Oversize materials consist of items removed from folders because of their size. Place cards are located in those original folders to identify items' oversize folder.

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