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Pamphlet: THE MODERN CITY AND THE MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE FOR WOMEN
Addams, Jane.
{New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1910].
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Addams, Jane.
{New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1910].
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Algeo, Sara.
Providence, RI: Snow & Franham Company, (1925).
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THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, Editors.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].
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Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, Editors.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. Nov., 1895].
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. Nov., 1895].
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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![Miss Anthony’s crusading motto on behalf of women’s rights, framed with a handsome image of this redoubtable reformer. Frame: 18-1/2 x 13"; photograph: 9-1/2 x 7-1/2"; autograph sentiment: 2-3/8 x 5", dark brown wood frame with silver beading along interior edge; pale gray and black double-matting set off the photograph and the autograph sentiment below. The portrait is a fresh printing of a photograph of Miss Anthony, seated in profile and wearing a black silk dress adorned with a froth of lace at the neck and wrists. The sentiment, inscribed in ink, reads: "Equal Rights for All — [underscored] / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison Street / July 20, 1900 Rochester - N.Y.". Some staining along the left edge and a touch of rumpling. About very good in an exemplary setting. At the age of eighty, Miss Anthony resigned from as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN records: "As Miss Anthony grew older, the vilification of earlier years gave way to a popular respect that at times approached adulation. Newspapers now spoke of her wit, her friendliness, and the benign, grandmotherly qualities suggested by the aged face and white hair...The symbol of the woman's movement, she was the center of interest wherever she appeared, the one woman everyone wanted to see". Though no longer the head of NAWSA, she very much remained the spirit and soul of the movement until her death in 1906. Her constant refrain as she agitated for women's rights was "political equality", a refrain which she echoes here in this sentiment. NAW, Volume I, p. 56.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/13368.jpg "Miss Anthony’s crusading motto on behalf of women’s rights, framed with a handsome image of this redoubtable reformer. Frame: 18-1/2 x 13\"; photograph: 9-1/2 x 7-1/2\"; autograph sentiment: 2-3/8 x 5\", dark brown wood frame with silver beading along interior edge; pale gray and black double-matting set off the photograph and the autograph sentiment below. The portrait is a fresh printing of a photograph of Miss Anthony, seated in profile and wearing a black silk dress adorned with a froth of lace at the neck and wrists. The sentiment, inscribed in ink, reads: \"Equal Rights for All — [underscored] / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison Street / July 20, 1900 Rochester - N.Y.\". Some staining along the left edge and a touch of rumpling. About very good in an exemplary setting. At the age of eighty, Miss Anthony resigned from as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN records: \"As Miss Anthony grew older, the vilification of earlier years gave way to a popular respect that at times approached adulation. Newspapers now spoke of her wit, her friendliness, and the benign, grandmotherly qualities suggested by the aged face and white hair...The symbol of the woman's movement, she was the center of interest wherever she appeared, the one woman everyone wanted to see\". Though no longer the head of NAWSA, she very much remained the spirit and soul of the movement until her death in 1906. Her constant refrain as she agitated for women's rights was \"political equality\", a refrain which she echoes here in this sentiment. NAW, Volume I, p. 56.")
Anthony, Susan.
[Rochester, N.Y.: , July 20, 1900].
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![Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10", folded to 6-1/2 x 5", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial "E" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; "1909" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: "I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other — ". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), "Mother Bloor", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15221.jpg "Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10\", folded to 6-1/2 x 5\", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial \"E\" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4\" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; \"1909\" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: \"I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other — \". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), \"Mother Bloor\", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.")
Bloor, Ella Reeve.
[Connecticut]: to "Friends of N.J.W.S.A.", Nov. 15h [1909].
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![First edition. Copy of suffrage activist May Brayton Briggs with her signature at the front free endpaper. 8vo, 100pp; (including Appendices); navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pale blue dust jacket printed in black. The jacket displays minor fading and some wear around the spine ends. The book is fine. The presence of the original dust jacket is unusual. Catt has compiled documents related to "why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question" of woman suffrage. Of the six chapters, Catt has written or compiled those entitled, "Why the Federal Amendment?"; "Election Laws and Referenda"; "The Story of the 1916 Referenda" and "Objections to the Federal Amendment". Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NYC, contributed the two chapters focusing on state issues. Appendix A reviews suffrage in other countries; Appendix B classifies the "36 male suffrage states" according to how state constitutions are amended and how difficult passage of woman suffrage according to the NAWSA. Woman suffrage had received a disheartening setback in 1915 when Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania all voted down state referenda on the question. Anna Howard Shaw's faltering presidency finally ended and Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded her to the head of the NAWSA. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Catt's "Winning Plan" [NAW] and which sought passage of a suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. [Robert Booth Fowler's essay "Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist" in ONE WOMEN, ONE VOTE is invaluable for its fine analysis of Catt's political skills. He emphasizes how controversial her "winning plan" was when Catt insisted that suffrage be pursued on the federal level.] 1917 proved the pivotal year in this long campaign. This book underscores Catt's insistence on persuasion by reason. (Though Catt also cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators. As a politician and a general she was quite prepared to promulgate a 'take no prisoners' policy when necessary.) Here, the dry titles of the articles provide intentional camouflage; in fact, the book is a decisive plan-of-action conceived and executed by a skilled and determined strategist of the first order. May Brayton Briggs became a supporter of woman suffrage, as she wrote, "not because I desired and decided to be, and then sought props to support my position but because my reading, observing and thinking, gradually brought me to the conclusions which I found were in harmony with those held by the advocates of equal suffrage". The Kroch Library at Cornell University now holds various manuscripts which Briggs wrote during the campaign for women suffrage in Massachusetts: notes for speeches, verses on anti suffrage complaints and being on the stump, etc. She was a lively, energetic voice on behalf of women's rights. NAW I, pp. 309-312 (re Carrie Chapman Catt). Weatherford, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT. Wheeler, ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE, pp. 295-314. Krichmar 1517. A copy exceptional for its provenance and condition.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15091.jpg "First edition. Copy of suffrage activist May Brayton Briggs with her signature at the front free endpaper. 8vo, 100pp; (including Appendices); navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pale blue dust jacket printed in black. The jacket displays minor fading and some wear around the spine ends. The book is fine. The presence of the original dust jacket is unusual. Catt has compiled documents related to \"why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question\" of woman suffrage. Of the six chapters, Catt has written or compiled those entitled, \"Why the Federal Amendment?\"; \"Election Laws and Referenda\"; \"The Story of the 1916 Referenda\" and \"Objections to the Federal Amendment\". Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NYC, contributed the two chapters focusing on state issues. Appendix A reviews suffrage in other countries; Appendix B classifies the \"36 male suffrage states\" according to how state constitutions are amended and how difficult passage of woman suffrage according to the NAWSA. Woman suffrage had received a disheartening setback in 1915 when Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania all voted down state referenda on the question. Anna Howard Shaw's faltering presidency finally ended and Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded her to the head of the NAWSA. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Catt's \"Winning Plan\" [NAW] and which sought passage of a suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. [Robert Booth Fowler's essay \"Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist\" in ONE WOMEN, ONE VOTE is invaluable for its fine analysis of Catt's political skills. He emphasizes how controversial her \"winning plan\" was when Catt insisted that suffrage be pursued on the federal level.] 1917 proved the pivotal year in this long campaign. This book underscores Catt's insistence on persuasion by reason. (Though Catt also cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators. As a politician and a general she was quite prepared to promulgate a 'take no prisoners' policy when necessary.) Here, the dry titles of the articles provide intentional camouflage; in fact, the book is a decisive plan-of-action conceived and executed by a skilled and determined strategist of the first order. May Brayton Briggs became a supporter of woman suffrage, as she wrote, \"not because I desired and decided to be, and then sought props to support my position but because my reading, observing and thinking, gradually brought me to the conclusions which I found were in harmony with those held by the advocates of equal suffrage\". The Kroch Library at Cornell University now holds various manuscripts which Briggs wrote during the campaign for women suffrage in Massachusetts: notes for speeches, verses on anti suffrage complaints and being on the stump, etc. She was a lively, energetic voice on behalf of women's rights. NAW I, pp. 309-312 (re Carrie Chapman Catt). Weatherford, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT. Wheeler, ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE, pp. 295-314. Krichmar 1517. A copy exceptional for its provenance and condition.")
Catt, Carrie Chapman (ed).
New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917.
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![Pamphlet: 6-1/8 x 9-3/16", 8pp; self-wrappers (stapled) printed on off-white stock. Legend above title, "Read and hand to some intelligent friend, with request to read and pass it on" [underscored and with a pointing hand device at the left] printed in red ink, all else in black. Uneven fading/browning at margins; folded once across middle; front lower foretip creased. About very good. Chief Justice Walter Clark (1846-1924) enumerates the arguments in support of woman suffrage, emphasizing that man suffrage evolved and changed over time and that woman suffrage is a natural outgrowth of those changes. Like many Southern speakers, he mixes down-home humor with logic: "It has been said seriously that if women are allowed to vote they will vote for the handsomest man. I now understand why some politicians are opposed to women voting". He also canvasses common anti suffrage arguments and dismisses them. Many Southerners opposed suffrage for the simple reason that more African Americans would be enfranchised. Clark deals with this head on with reasoning that is chilling but reflective of contemporary attitudes, i.e., that the white women's vote will help secure "white supremacy": "...I do say that the vote of the white women will be solid as one woman in maintenance of the integrity of the white race and of the right of their children to control this country". Finally, Clark sees as inevitable: "This world-wide movement is irresistible because it is founded upon justice and the economic demands of the times". That the address was made on February 22nd, the birthday of George Washington, surely was intended to remind those who attended that the American Revolution would achieve the "unalienable Rights" it envisioned only when women attained the right to vote. Clark predicted that the North Carolina legislature would pass a referendum on woman suffrage; his prediction proved optimistic. North Carolina, like its Southern neighbors of Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia and Louisiana, neither voted a woman suffrage referendum nor ratified the 19th Amendment. Krichmar 1533. Pro-suffrage materials with a Southern origin are generally scarce, reflecting the limited support given the movement in these states.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/13838.jpg "Pamphlet: 6-1/8 x 9-3/16\", 8pp; self-wrappers (stapled) printed on off-white stock. Legend above title, \"Read and hand to some intelligent friend, with request to read and pass it on\" [underscored and with a pointing hand device at the left] printed in red ink, all else in black. Uneven fading/browning at margins; folded once across middle; front lower foretip creased. About very good. Chief Justice Walter Clark (1846-1924) enumerates the arguments in support of woman suffrage, emphasizing that man suffrage evolved and changed over time and that woman suffrage is a natural outgrowth of those changes. Like many Southern speakers, he mixes down-home humor with logic: \"It has been said seriously that if women are allowed to vote they will vote for the handsomest man. I now understand why some politicians are opposed to women voting\". He also canvasses common anti suffrage arguments and dismisses them. Many Southerners opposed suffrage for the simple reason that more African Americans would be enfranchised. Clark deals with this head on with reasoning that is chilling but reflective of contemporary attitudes, i.e., that the white women's vote will help secure \"white supremacy\": \"...I do say that the vote of the white women will be solid as one woman in maintenance of the integrity of the white race and of the right of their children to control this country\". Finally, Clark sees as inevitable: \"This world-wide movement is irresistible because it is founded upon justice and the economic demands of the times\". That the address was made on February 22nd, the birthday of George Washington, surely was intended to remind those who attended that the American Revolution would achieve the \"unalienable Rights\" it envisioned only when women attained the right to vote. Clark predicted that the North Carolina legislature would pass a referendum on woman suffrage; his prediction proved optimistic. North Carolina, like its Southern neighbors of Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia and Louisiana, neither voted a woman suffrage referendum nor ratified the 19th Amendment. Krichmar 1533. Pro-suffrage materials with a Southern origin are generally scarce, reflecting the limited support given the movement in these states.")
Clark, Walter.
[NP: , ND, but 1915].
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Howland, Emily.
Sherwood [NY]: To A.S. Russell, 2 February 1876.
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Howland, Emily.
Sherwood [NY]: To A.S. Russell, 2 February 1876.
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Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
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Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854.
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
[NP]: , [Feb 18th 1897].
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"The Suffrage Danger" in THE LIVING AGE Seventh Series Volume LVI, No. 3553 August 10, 1912
[Anti Suffrage] Tadema, Laurence Alma.
Boston: The Living Age Company, 1912.
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[Anti Suffrage] Tadema, Laurence Alma.
Boston: The Living Age Company, 1912.
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Pamphlet: HOW WOMEN CAN BEST SERVE THE STATE An Address Before the State Federation of Women's Clubs, Troy, October 30th, 1907 by Mrs. Barclay Hazard
[Anti-Suffrage] Hazard, Mrs. Barclay.
New York City: The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, [ca. 1907].
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[Anti-Suffrage] Hazard, Mrs. Barclay.
New York City: The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, [ca. 1907].
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[Anti-Suffrage],
[Boston, Massachusetts]: , [1916].
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[Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association],
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[Mott, Lucretia].
[Philadelphia: Tyson, ND, but June 4, 1878].
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![Small pamphlet: single sheet 11 x 5-3/4", folded in thirds to 3-3/4 x 5-3/4", printed black on white stock (both sides). Slight age-toning, else fine. This little pamphlet appeals for contributions to memorials established by the NAWSA in honor of Anna Howard Shaw. It prints resolutions passed "at the Victory Convention [following Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment] held at Chicago Feb. 12 to 18, 1920". The "Appeal" notes that Dr. Shaw had dedicated her life to woman suffrage and also to securing "higher education and the opening of new professions for women". "To those of us who knew and loved her best, stone or bronze would fail to symbolize her spirit. Her far reaching vision is better expressed in a living, growing memorial which will open other new fields for women in the future, as she opened them in the past". The NAWSA plans to raise $500,000 to establish a Foundation in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College and a Foundation in Preventive Medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The pamphlet also lists the state chairmen, the Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee. Anna Howard Shaw who Susan B. Anthony herself recruited to the woman suffrage cause had served as president of the NAWSA for twelve years. Though her presidency had been troubled, her dedication to woman suffrage had been unswerving through three decades. She died in 1919. Like Anthony and Stanton, she did not live to see the cause for which she had worked for so many years became reality. As the "Appeal" concludes: "Give as your heart dictates. Anna Howard Shaw gave her best". A nice piece of suffrage ephemera on one of its key figures.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/12220.jpg "Small pamphlet: single sheet 11 x 5-3/4\", folded in thirds to 3-3/4 x 5-3/4\", printed black on white stock (both sides). Slight age-toning, else fine. This little pamphlet appeals for contributions to memorials established by the NAWSA in honor of Anna Howard Shaw. It prints resolutions passed \"at the Victory Convention [following Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment] held at Chicago Feb. 12 to 18, 1920\". The \"Appeal\" notes that Dr. Shaw had dedicated her life to woman suffrage and also to securing \"higher education and the opening of new professions for women\". \"To those of us who knew and loved her best, stone or bronze would fail to symbolize her spirit. Her far reaching vision is better expressed in a living, growing memorial which will open other new fields for women in the future, as she opened them in the past\". The NAWSA plans to raise $500,000 to establish a Foundation in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College and a Foundation in Preventive Medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The pamphlet also lists the state chairmen, the Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee. Anna Howard Shaw who Susan B. Anthony herself recruited to the woman suffrage cause had served as president of the NAWSA for twelve years. Though her presidency had been troubled, her dedication to woman suffrage had been unswerving through three decades. She died in 1919. Like Anthony and Stanton, she did not live to see the cause for which she had worked for so many years became reality. As the \"Appeal\" concludes: \"Give as your heart dictates. Anna Howard Shaw gave her best\". A nice piece of suffrage ephemera on one of its key figures.")
[Shaw, Anna Howard].
[NP]: , [ND, but 1920].
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