National Woman's Party records
Contributors: DuPont, Jean Kane Foulke, 1891-1975; Hadley, Lucia Hanna; Ogle, Dora G.; Paul, Alice, 1885-1977; Pollitzer, Anita, 1894-1975; West, Helen Hunt, b. 1892
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Equal rights; Suffragist; International cooperation; Equal rights amendments; Suffrage; Periodicals; Jury duty; World Woman's Party; United States; Suffragists; Constitutional amendments; Economic conditions; Societies and clubs; Women's rights; Social conditions; Women; International Woman Suffrage Alliance; Legal status, laws; History
Description: Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, administrative files, financial and legal records, printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records documenting the organization's efforts to promote congressional passage of both the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote and the Equal Rights Amendment.  Subjects include legal, social, and economic status of women in the U.S. and around the world, the party's publications Suffragist and Equal Rights, attempts to promote jury service for women, cooperative efforts with other woman's organizations and with the international women's movement, the treatment of imprisoned suffragists, and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

Also includes records (1938-1958) of the World Woman's Party and papers of party members and officials including Jean Kane Foulke DuPont, Lucia Hanna Hadley, Dora G. Ogle, Alice Paul, Anita Pollitzer, and Helen Hunt West.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,276.

Photostats, in part. [S.l.].

Selected photographs also available through the Library of Congress Web site.

Microfilm 18,276-97P (Suffrage Years) produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981.

Photostats produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1939.

Gift, National Woman's Party, 1941-1979.

Gift, Amelia Fry, 1987.

Transfer, Library of Congress Division of Fine Arts, 1938.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

National organization in the women's rights movement.  Founded as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1916-1917 by Alice Paul.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.