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{"value"=>"498", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 498", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1887-1947", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1887/1947"}
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1887
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1947
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1887
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1887
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1947
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{"value"=>"Carrie Chapman Catt papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"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."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Carrie Chapman Catt papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1859 January 9th</span> <span class=\"event\">Born, Ripon, Wisconsin</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1880</span> <span class=\"event\">Graduated from Iowa State College</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1883-84</span> <span class=\"event\">Superintendent of Schools, Mason City, Iowa</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1885</span> <span class=\"event\">Married Leo Chapman (died, 1886)</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1890</span> <span class=\"event\">Married George W. Catt (died, 1905) Attended first convention of NAWSA</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1895</span> <span class=\"event\">Chairman NAWSA Organizational Committee</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1900-1904</span> <span class=\"event\">President, National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1904-1923</span> <span class=\"event\">Founding President</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1913-1915</span> <span class=\"event\">President, Empire State Campaign Committee</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1915-1947</span> <span class=\"event\">President, National American Woman Suffrage Association</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1915</span> <span class=\"event\">Founds Woman's Peace Party with Jane Addams</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1920, August 26th</span> <span class=\"event\">Nineteenth Amendment Adopted</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1922-1923</span> <span class=\"event\">Tour of South America</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1924-1932</span> <span class=\"event\">Chairman, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1925</span> <span class=\"event\">First Conference, Cause and Cure of War</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1927</span> <span class=\"event\">Attacked the DAR for defamation of Jane Addams and others</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1933</span> <span class=\"event\">Catt began protesting against the Nazi persecution of Jews</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1934</span> <span class=\"event\">Received the American Hebrew Medal</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1936</span> <span class=\"event\">Citation of honor from President Roosevelt</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1937-1941</span> <span class=\"event\">Worked to amass woman suffrage archive for the Library of Congress</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1940</span> <span class=\"event\">Woman's Centennial Congress</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1941</span> <span class=\"event\">National Achievement Award</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947, March 9th</span> <span class=\"event\">Died, New Rochelle, New York</span></li></ul></p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Presented to the New York Public Library in August 1947 by the executrix of Mrs. Catt's will, the papers were collected from Mrs. Catt's New Rochelle home by her biographer Mary Gray Peck.</p> <p>They form the second largest collection of Mrs. Catt's papers — the largest is in the Library of Congress — and are strongest in the documentation of her work promoting international suffrage and peace (1925-1945), though interesting material related to her suffrage campaigns can be found in the correspondence, organizational papers, and writings.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers of Carrie Clinton (Lane) Chapman Catt (1859-1947) reflect her life's work on behalf of human rights, particularly the right of woman to vote, and world peace. The collection spans 1887-1947 and includes general correspondence; organizational papers; plays, addresses, and articles; photographs; printed material; and scrapbooks. Different types of material cover different periods in Catt's life, with the exception of her public addresses and writings, which form the largest single type of material and run from 1887-1947.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Carrie Chapman Catt papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/498#c1327285'>General Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The majority of letters document Catt's efforts on behalf of world peace during the 1920s and 1930s, and include correspondence with peace organizers, members of the scholarly community, and various religious and women's groups. Letters from this period also reflect Catt's powerful sense of justice. There is a draft of her article attacking the DAR for circulating pamphlets accusing Jane Addams and others of being Bolsheviks, correspondence on behalf of a family who believed their son had been denied acceptance to medical school because he was Jewish, and correspondence with peace activists who believed tales of Nazi atrocities were exaggerated to bring the U. S. into the war. Letters regarding woman suffrage fall into two main categories - a small collection of correspondence with Presidents and other famous people reflecting Mrs. Catt's efforts on behalf of suffrage, and a large collection of letters from the late 1930s and 1940s related to the history of the suffrage movement. Included in the latter are letters from Catt soliciting books and photographs for a gift to the Library of Congress; letters to Catt from suffragists and their relatives, and letters from biographers asking questions. Correspondence with Earl Conrad, Harriet Tubman's biographer, falls into this category and is quite extensive, considering that Catt said she had never heard of Tubman. Scattered throughout the correspondence series are letters from acquaintances and admirers. There are no letters from members of Catt's family, and few from close friends.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/498#c1327311'>Organizational Files</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/498#c1327343'>Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Catt's writings include speeches, articles, a skit, and a pageant. The speeches, 1887-1947, are arranged chronologically, with undated speeches at the end. Included are addresses made before congressional committees, commencement audiences, at suffrage festivals, conferences on the cause and cure of war, and in acceptance of awards. Catt was an excellent speaker, and this collection contains some 80 speeches ranging from autograph drafts to printed conference proceedings. The articles and notes in the collection are undated and arranged in alphabetical order.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/498#c1327453'>Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The photographs include an album of pictures taken on Catt's 1923 trip to the Panama Canal and three photographs of costumed cast members of \"Mars Takes a Sabbatical,\" 1933.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/498#c1327456'>Printed Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes biographical material clipped from journals and newspapers, and microfilm copies of two scrapbooks, one labeled \"personal\" dealing with Catt's activities, and the other documenting woman suffrage, 1916-1917. The original scrapbooks were discarded after filming.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Five series: I. General Correspondence, 1904-1947; II. Organizational Papers, 1904-1947; III. Writings, 1887-1947; IV. Photographs, 1923, 1933; V. Printed Material</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Inventory, August 1986</p>"}
- extent_statement
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3 linear feet (7 boxes); 1 microfilm reel