Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers
Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2001696354
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Prints & Photographs Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
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Encoded Archival Description
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
collection
Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers 1840-ca. 1935 bulk 1890-1925
171 items (chiefly lantern slides and photographic prints) ; 28 x 23 cm. or smaller
Scope and Content Note LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family, and others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage.
series
Surrogates of Lantern Slides ca. 1859-1928
LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. The first thirty-seven reproductions (lantern slides LC-B633-1 to LC-B633-37) show images used by Mary Foulke Morrisson and Maud Wood Park in speeches delivered Jan.9, 1939 in recognition of the eightieth birthday of Carrie Chapman Catt. Photocopies of the speeches and corresponding lantern slide caption lists are included in the LOT. These images include portraits of Catt as a child and young adult; portraits of her parents Lucius and Maria Lane; Catt and others attending meetings of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance; suffrage parades and pageants. One slide shows Catt with board members of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Additional photocopies (lantern slide numbers LC-B633-38 to LC-B633-75) depict suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Maud Wood Park, Julia Ward Howe, and Catherine Breshkovsky, suffrage meetings, hearings, and parades.
Portrait Photographs
LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family: women's suffrage leader Alice Blackwell; her parents Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone, abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Alice's aunt, first woman to receive an academic medical degree and activist for women in the medical profession; and Hannah Lane Blackwell, matriarch of the family; also, one portrait of Lucy Stone designed to be worn as a button and one photograph of Lucy Stone's birthplace in West Brookfield, Mass. Also includes portraits of others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage; officers and members of the National American Women's Suffrage Association and the National League of Women Voters; snapshots of women marching in a suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 17, 1917. Other suffrage activities depicted include Judge Florence Allen and Bertha A. Miller on a 1913 pilgrimage march from New York to Washington, D.C.; Florence Allen, Elizabeth J. Hauser and Greta Coleman checking and sorting suffrage petitions in Ohio, 1914; Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett signing the Suffrage Bill, June 5, 1919.
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Abbott, Grace
Addams, Jane
Allen, Judge Florence
Beshidy, Dr. A. A.
Blackwell, Alice
Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth
Blackwell, Family
Blackwell, Hannah Lane
Blackwell, Henry
Breckinridge, Sophonisba P.
Breshkovsky, Catherine
Brooks, Mrs. Charles H.
Brown, Mrs. Raymond
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Coleman, Greta
Cunningham, Minnie Fisher
Edson, Katherine Philips
Gardner, Helen
Gellhorn, Mrs. George
Gillett with men & women
Goode, Mrs. J. Paul
Harrison, Mrs. H. G.
Hauser, Elizabeth J.
Hay, Mary Garrett
Hooper, Mrs. Ben
Lawrence, Isabel
MacPherson, James G.
McCormick, Mrs. Stanley
Meyer, Heloise
Miller, Bertha A.
Miller, Mrs. John O.
Moss, Luella St. Clair
Mott, Lucretia
Mussey, Ellen Spencer
Parades
Parker, Valerie H.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Shaw, Anna Howard
Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Stone, Lucy
LOT 13267-2, no. 29 [original filed in Supplementary Archives]
Stone, Lucy (photograph button)
Stone, Lucy (digital reproduction of an original daguerreotype filed in DAG, no. 1201)
Webster, Ann
White, Armenia S.
Whitehouse, Mrs. Norman