National League of Women Voters Delegate Badge, 1922
date: label: associated date
content: 1922-04-20
name: label: associated institution
content: League of Women Voters
label: associated person
content: Blackwell, Alice
notes: label: Description
content: Badge worn by Alice Stone Blackwell as a delegate to the League of Women Voters 3rd Annual Convention and Pan-American Conference of Women held in Baltimore, Maryland April 20-30, 1922.
label: Description
content: In 1920 the National American Woman Suffrage Association became the League of Women Voters with Carrie Chapman Catt as its first president. It was formed to help educate newly enfranchised women.
label: Description
content: Alice Stone Blackwell was the daughter of Lucy Stone and an avid women’s rights advocate in her own right. She assumed editorship of the Woman’s Journal, a leading women’s political journal from 1870 to 1931, when her father, co-founder of the periodical with her mother, passed away (Stone Blackwell's editorship lasted from 1909-1917).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from the Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.242991.273
label: catalog number
content: 242991.273
label: accession number
content: 242991
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (badge materials)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (badge materials)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (ribbon materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm