Papers Carrie Chapman Catt 1905-1950

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Identity Area

Collection ID	IIAV00000030
Unitdate	1905-1950
Language of Material	Spanish/Spaans
	English/Engels
GeoCountry	United States/Verenigde Staten
Processing Information	List by Annette Mevis in 1997
	Numbers 1-16 digitized in 2013
Access and Use	Accessible/Vrij
Access Note	Numbers 1-16 only to be consulted digitally
Preferred Citation	Papers Carrie Chapman Catt , inv.no …, Collection International Archives for the Women's Movement (IAV), in Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History

Biographical Note / Biografie

Born 9 January 1859 as Carrie Clinton Lane in Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America, died 9 March 1947 in New Rochelle, New York; got the degree of Bachelor of Science from Iowa State College in 1880; married in 1885 with Leo Chapman (died in 1886) and remarried in 1890 with George William Catt (died in 1905); lived from 1905 together with the suffragist Mary Garrett Hay (died in 1928); became a member of the Iowa Women Suffrage Association in 1890; was president of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) 1900-1904, 1915-1920; initiator and in 1904 co-founder of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, president from 1904-1923; travelled with Aletta Jacobs in 1911-1912 through Africa and Asia to promote women's suffrage; travelled with Rosa Manus in 1922-1923 through Europe and Latin America; initiated the League of Women Voters, founded in 1920; initiator of the Comittee on the Cause and Cure of War 1925-1939, president 1925-1932; wrote numerous articles, among them travel reports and together with Nettie Rogers ShulerWoman Suffrage and Politics 1923.

Custodial History

Location of Originals is New York Public Library Smith College, Northampton MA. Most of her papers are in the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.

Inhoud

Correspondence with Rosa Manus 1939-1941; documents concerning Rosa Manus's death in a concentration camp 1942; cuttings and an album with photographs of their journey through Europe and Latin America 1922-1923; photograph album 'Homes of Famous People' n.y.; 'Birthday Memorial Book' offered to Carrie Chapman Catt on the occasion of her seventieth birthday 1929; articles and texts of speeches by Catt 1913, 1922-1939; photocopies of letters in other repositories and microfilms of her papers in the Library of Congres in Washington.

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