{"value"=>"<p>The International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was founded in 1902 in Washington, D.C.. The alliance originally consisted of representatives from the woman suffrage groups of eleven countries, but the group saw its membership expand to twenty-five countries by the time of the Budapest Congress of 1913. The IWSA's mission was to \"secure enfranchisement for the women of all nations, and to unite the friends of woman suffrage throughout the world....\"</p> <p>Schwimmer's involvement with the organization was a turning-point in her life. She attended several of their annual congresses: Denmark in 1906, Holland in 1908, and London in 1911. At these conferences she made initial contact with influential suffragists from Europe and the United States that would prove invaluable in her later career.</p> <p>The conference material in this series pertain to the sixth and seventh congresses of the IWSA, held in Stockholm in 1911 and Budapest in 1913. Rosika Schwimmer's role in planning and implementing the Budapest Congress is documented here, and a significant amount of the correspondence in this series is related to her efforts. Of additional interest are the collected letters from more than fifteen countries, some as far away as South Africa, with each country reporting as to their status and progress in the push for women's suffrage.</p> <p>Materials include correspondence; documentation of conference preparations and Schwimmer's notes; delegate lists and biographies; Congress programs, minutes and reports; a small amount of financial papers; the text of a speech delivered by seventh Congress president Carrie Chapman Catt on the problem of \"white slave\" traffic; ephemera; and other printed matter.</p> <p>Prominent correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt, Minna Cauer, Cicely Dean Corbett, Thora Daugaard, Aletta Jacobs, and Anna Howard Shaw.</p> <p>In English, French, German and Hungarian.</p> <p>Photographs from these congresses can be viewed in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery collection, \"Woman Suffrage and Feminism Photographs in the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection\" (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=542).</p>"}