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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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First edition. 1/1,000 numbered copies ("the first two hundred of which will be reserved by the Author for her fellow Suffragists"), this being copy no. 797. 8vo, <i-xvi>, 318pp; maroon cloth stamped in gilt with title and facsimile of author's signature on front panel; printed white dust jacket with photograph of the author at the front panel. Illustrated with 91 halftones after photographs of those women and men active in the suffrage movement in Rhode Island as well as nationally. White dust jacket has 1/2" tear at foot of spine with overall dustiness. The book is splendid and the jacket only lightly affected by age. Fine. Sara (Mrs. James W.) Algeo starts with a spirited account of the ratification in the state legislature on January 7, and the Victory Dinner (where she presided as toast mistress) on the evening of January 6, that preceded the formal signing. Sara Algeo calls herself and others who labored ceaselessly for many years in the cause of woman suffrage, a sub-pioneer. She states she is a feminist "first, last and all the time" ; and, the autobiographical sketch she gives portrays a woman who fought for equal rights from an early age. Algeo reprints speeches by Anna Howard Shaw, letters to various newspapers by herself and others, editorials on the subject of woman suffrage. in short, valuable material. The numerous illustrations, the firsthand accounts of state and national events make this a significant primary source. Krichmar 1412.
THE STORY OF A SUB PIONEER
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[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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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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Miss Anthony&#x92;s crusading motto on behalf of women&#x92;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 &#x97; [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.
AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED, Framed with Photograph
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 &#x97; ". 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.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
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.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt
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.
Pamphlet: "Equal Suffrage Address of Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Caroline Supreme Court Before the Equal Suffrage League Greensboro, N.C., 22 February, 1915"
Clark, Walter.
[NP: , ND, but 1915].
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Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
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First edition. First issue, according to Sabin, with the ampersand (February 14 & 15, 1854) at the title page and lacking the appendix at the verso of p. 19. 8vo, 19pp; lacking the original wrappers. With some dampstaining along the upper to outer margins throughout; a 1" tear to upper margin (throughout the pamphlet) together with some light stains, creases and various notches and tears to the top and outer edges. Good only, but then we have handled just one other copy, also in distinctly lesser condition. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), reformer and suffragist, organized with Lucretia Mott the famed Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, drafted their "Declaration of Sentiments" in which she averred "men and women are created equal" and, over the objections of her husband and Mott, proposed the vote for women. It was "the first public demand on record for woman suffrage". For years Elizabeth Cady Stanton had seen desperate women turn to her father, an eminent lawyer, for legal recourse to abusive husbands, debts, etc. and to see them turned away; for women, especially married women, the law offered neither succor nor justice. They were their husband&#x92;s property. As a child she marked the offensive passages in law books denying women rights and attempted to cut them out. As an adult she sought through print and lecture, through petition and persuasion to right these legal wrongs. In 1854 she received an unprecedented invitation to address the New York state legislature. It was familiar to her: her husband, her father and her grandfather had all served there. In her address Stanton forcefully canvassed the limits that constrained woman as citizen, wife, widow and mother with "no right even to the wages she earns", and "no redress for wrongs in her own name in any court of justice..." Her eloquence bore fruit when in 1860 New York granted women the right to their own wages and equal guardianship of their children. "Address" marks an important milestone, the first time that legislators would consider seriously the legal plight of women and be moved to change it. A slight document of great significance. Franklin, p. 23. Sabin 90398. Though not noted in OCLC, AAS holds a copy of the first issue. Likely the Library of Congress, in its holdings of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers, also has a copy and the Kroch Library of Cornell in its Gerritsen Collection. In any case, the first issue is decidedly scarce.
ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK Adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 & 15 1854
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854.
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Broadside: "The Congress Shall Have Power to Enforce this Article by Appropriate Legislation." Can Any Legislator Vote for This and Not Break His Oath of Office to His State?
[Anti Suffrage] Callaway, James.
Montgomery: Brown Printing Co., ca. 1919.
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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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Only printing. Pamphlet: 9-1/8 x 5-3/4", 16pp; printed buff self-wrappers (stapled). Near fine. Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison and served as an associate justice from 1891 to 1906. In his address, Brown refutes the idea that "either men or women have a natural right to vote": "They may be said to have a natural right to protection in their persons, their property and their opinions, but they have no natural right to govern or to participate in the government of others." [A remarkable position for a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.] Furthermore, state laws often favor women over men, supporting he suggests, womanly distaste for "manual labor". If women should be and are equal under the law they still differ from men, which Brown sets out in five brief sentences. Among women's deficits , for instance, is "The dispassionate view of important questions, which we call the judicial temperament". Their strengths, which he also enumerates, lie in the domestic sphere. And, like many antisuffragists, he envisions danger in granting the vote "to large classes who have not heretofore enjoyed it. True, this is a government of the people, but not necessarily of all persons constituting the people." Brown concludes his address by declaring that "in winning public favor they will leave behind them something of their attachment to the virtues of private life; that contact with coarse men at the polls will familiarize them with the vulgarities of politics; in short, that in becoming more like men they will become less like women". Kinnard, ANTIFEMINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT, 620. OCLC notes numerous institutions with microform copies; but, just five institutions hold the pamphlet itself: Connecticut Historical Society, Mount Holyoke College, NYPL, Tulane University and University of Ottawa.
Pamphlet: "WOMAN SUFFRAGE: A Paper Read by Ex-Justice Brown before the Ladies' Congressional Club of Washington, D.C., April, 1910"
[Anti-suffrage] Brown, Henry Billings.
Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, [1910].
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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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Program: 9 x 6", unpaginated; white wrappers (stapled) lettered in black and with a bold red/white/blue stripe running diagonally from upper left to lower right. Rumpled. About very good. The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women was created in 1882, the first formal anti-suffrage organization in the United States. It remained active, especially during the final decade of the suffrage movement, until passage and ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The playbill prints a &#x93;List of Patronesses&#x94; which reflects the many distinguished Massachusetts families which lined up against woman suffrage; among those named: Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, 2nd; Mrs. George R. Agassiz; Mrs. Harcourt Amory; Mrs. Edward H. Bradford; Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot; Mrs. William C. Endicott, Jr.; Miss Marion H. Fenno; Mrs. Francis L. Higginson; Mrs. Clement S. Houghton; Mrs. Francis C. Lowell; and, Mrs. Endicott P. Saltonstall. The program also lists those serving as &#x93;Candy Girls&#x94;, &#x93;Flower Girls&#x94;, &#x93;Tea Girls and Ushers&#x94; as well as those on the Candy, Flower, Finance, Programme, Music, Tea, and Ticket-Distribution Committees. The program features a scene adapted from Victor Hugo&#x92;s LES MISERABLES entitled &#x93;The Bishop&#x92;s Candlesticks&#x94; and a two-scene comedy sketch &#x93;Uncle William&#x92;s Lobster&#x94; (&#x94;A Comedy of the Maine Coast&#x94;) with musical interludes. The program, of course, carries a variety of advertisements by Boston merchants and an announcement of the Association&#x92;s recent publication of ANTI-SUFFRAGE ESSAYS. The program documents women who supported the Association and its activities, and suggests the dignified, elegant tone they sought to convey in their public events. ( In contrast, of course, to the vulgarity of suffragists speaking on street corners, parading with banners and flags, and otherwise making public spectacles of themselves.) What is striking is the absence of a sketch or short play which lays out anti-suffrage themes. The program aims at sheer entertainment, devoid of political rhetoric.
Program: "Short Plays and Music..Wilbur Theatre..Monday, May 8, 1916 Under the Auspices of Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women"
[Anti-Suffrage],
[Boston, Massachusetts]: , [1916].
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Pamphlet: single sheet, 6 x 6-1/2" folded to 6 x 3-1/4", 4pp; printed self-wrappers. Fine. The leaflet offers a succinct comparison between women and men regarding "Citizenship", "Military Duty", "Employment", "Jury Duty", "Divorce", "Property", "Support", "Settlement Entitling to Support in Case of Need", "Guardianship of Minor Children", and "Property at Death". A widow, for instance, may claim a $500.00 exemption from taxes if her whole taxable estate is less than $1,000. "Man has no corresponding exemptions". And as for the working women, "Hours of labor and conditions concerning health and safety exceptionally well looked after". Antisuffragists suggested repeatedly that the laws which Progressives had fought for to curb abusive work places proved that women did not need the vote and, in fact, were coddled in comparison to their male counterparts. It was an irony which rankled, of course. Kinnard does not note the leaflet in her ANTIFEMINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT nor does OCLC locate a copy.
Leaflet: "Some Rights and Exemptions Given to Women by Massachusetts Law"
[Anti-suffrage],
Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1911.
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Cabinet photograph: Image, 5-1/2 x 3-15/16", photographer's board, 6-3/8 x 4-1/8", albumen print mounted to off-white printed photographer's board. The photograph is a three-quarters portrait with an aged Mott seated, wearing Quaker garb of a plain dress and a white cap. "Lucretia Mott / Quaker - Abolitionist- Phila." in black ink at reverse (not in Mott's hand). Tiny nick to image at upper edge; mild overall use and age-toning with a few light stains to the board. Very good. Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), Quaker minister, a pioneer in the women's rights movement and abolitionist, gave her formidable intelligence and spirit to key 19th c. reform movements. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 and this historic meeting resulted in the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848. She spent her life trying to better the lives of those less fortunate: whether working for abolition or, after the Civil War, pressing for Negro suffrage and furtherance of their educational opportunities, working for women's rights, speaking on behalf of religious freedom or calling for the end to capital punishment. She contributed much to this country's notions of right and wrong, social justice and personal commitment to ideals. Photographer Isaac G. Tyson, with his brother, took a number of photographs in Gettysburg during the Civil War where they had a gallery. Later he moved to Philadelphia and acquired a reputation as a portrait photographer. As well as Lucretia Mott, Tyson photographed James Mott, Mary Ann McClintock (another of the Seneca Falls four) and Edward Hicks. Mott had posed for the photographer at least once earlier. Swarthmore Friends Historical Library holds a copy of the albumen print, which dates it to June 4, 1878. The library also holds another photograph taken around the same time of Lucretia with daughter Maria Mott Davis and granddaughters Anna D. Hallowell and Maria Hallowell. A handsome image. We have not been able to locate another copy other than that at Swarthmore.
CABINET PHOTOGRAPH
[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.
Pamphlet: "Anna Howard Shaw Memorial of the National American Woman Suffrage Association"
[Shaw, Anna Howard].
[NP]: , [ND, but 1920].
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