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Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an American suffragist, peace activist and lecturer. Collection includes correspondence and other papers primarily concerning Catt's efforts on behalf of world peace and women's suffrage. Correspondence, reports, press releases, minutes, brochures, and clippings relate to the Empire State Campaign Committee, 1914-1915; National American Woman Suffrage Association (to which Catt was elected president in 1915), 1916-1918; Women's Centennial Congress, 1940; and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1904-1947. Also, manuscript and printed versions of Catt's writings, 1887-1947, including addresses, articles, dramatic works, and notes; an album containing photographs of a 1923 trip to the Panama Canal; and printed materials, including biographical articles, and scrapbooks containing materials related to Catt and to women's suffrage activities, 1916-1917. less

The Colles family papers contain extensive correspondence, diaries, financial records, photographs, and personal miscellany of three generations of the Colles family, 1801-1957. Over half of the collection is devoted to the papers of prominent New York City and New Orleans merchant James Colles (1788-1883), and his granddaughter, the artist Gertrude Colles (1869-1957) of New York City and Morristown, New Jersey. less