http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3n39q3nd No online items Guide to the Susan B. Anthony Collection Guide prepared by Special Collections Staff Ella Strong Denison Library Libraries of The Claremont Colleges Scripps College 1090 Columbia Avenue Claremont, CA 91711 Phone: (909) 607-3941 Fax: (909) 607-1548 Email: [email protected] URL: http://libraries.claremont.edu/den/ © 2005 Claremont University Consortium. All rights reserved. Guide to the Susan B. Anthony D1940.1 1 Collection Guide to the Susan B. Anthony Collection Collection number: D1940.1 Ella Strong Denison Library Libraries of The Claremont Colleges Claremont, California Processed by: Special Collections Staff Date Completed: Date Completed Encoded by: Special Collections Staff © 2004 Claremont University Consortium. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Susan B. Anthony collection Dates: 1850-1984 Bulk Dates: 1900-1952 Collection number: D1940.1 Collector: Winter, Una R. Collection Size: 2.25 linear feet(2 manuscript boxes and 1 oversize folder). Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Ella Strong Denison Library. Claremont, California 91711 Abstract: Susan B. Anthony's public career spanned a half-century. She was a leader in the women's suffrage movement, temperance and abolition organizer, ardent reformer, speaker, and author who spent most of her life fighting for equality. This collection contains publications, ephemera, photographs, correspondence and writings related to her life's work. Physical location: Please consult repository. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Denison Library. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Susan B. Anthony collection. Ella Strong Denison Library, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges. Acquisition Information Gift of Una R. Winter. Individual items donated by Miss Katherine Boyles, Miss Anthony's niece, Alice Parks, and Ada Watkins Hatch, no date. Biography / Administrative History Susan B. Anthony (15 Feb. 1820-13 Mar. 1906), reformer and organizer for woman suffrage, was born Susan Brownell Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts. In 1851 Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1852 Anthony and Stanton founded the Women's New York State Temperance Society, which claimed an equality with the leading male society and featured women's right to vote on the temperance question and to divorce drunken husbands. In 1863 Anthony, again with Stanton, founded the Women's Loyal National League; employing a loose network of individuals and soldiers' aid and antislavery societies, the league gathered petitions with 400,000 signatures, which were presented to Congress. This effort marked advent of a focus on the federal government for women's rights. The Thirteenth Amendment and subsequent debate about securing citizenship for freed slaves introduced Anthony and her co-workers to the potential for sweeping change through amendment to the national Constitution. In 1865 Anthony became convinced that universal suffrage was the only just solution to the challenges of Reconstruction. With a lecture on universal suffrage, she worked her way east. By year's end, the core of women's rights activists in the Guide to the Susan B. Anthony D1940.1 2 Collection Northeast had reassembled to launch their first national campaign for woman suffrage. Hopes for universal suffrage bound former abolitionists together in the American Equal Rights Association, established in 1866. As its corresponding secretary Anthony oversaw petitions to Congress and coordinated several campaigns to amend state constitutions. She divided her time in 1867 between campaigns in New York and Kansas, and with Stanton, accepted an offer of capital to launch a newspaper, the Revolution, first appearing in New York in January 1868. Though the Revolution preserves the worst pronouncements of Anthony and Stanton in this period--opposing the Fifteenth Amendment and casting the enfranchisement of freedmen as a threat to the safety of white women--it also captures their excitement about women's potential and their growing rebelliousness. Their convictions about an independent movement led Anthony and Stanton to form the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869; Henry Blackwell and his wife, Lucy Stone, set up the rival American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which called for suffrage by state, rather than federal, law. The strategy of the NWSA remained uncertain and subject to change until 1875. By the 1890s Anthony had access to the platform of any women's organization in the country. Two years of acrimonious negotiations with Lucy Stone's representatives from the AWSA succeeded in merging the rival associations as the National-American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890. Stanton presided over the new organization from 1890 to 1892, when Anthony replaced her. Anthony served until her eightieth birthday in 1900. When Anthony died, she left an enormous legacy to those other generations. Her image, words, and standards of work permeated the struggle for what women called the "Susan B. Anthony amendment." So thoroughly had she become the embodiment of women's aspirations for political equality that suffragists fought long after their victory in 1920 over their competing claims to be her true political descendants. (Adapted from the American National Biography Online, http://www.anb.org) Scope and Content of Collection The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, and newspaper clippings related to Susan B. Anthony's career as a leader in the women's suffrage movement. The content includes several articles written by Susan B. Anthony as well as numerous articles written about her life's work. Although some of the material is from her lifetime, the bulk epitomizes her legacy and how she is eulogized after her death. The collection also contains numerous photographs and ephemera from her days as a leading suffragist. Although the date of many of the pieces is unknown, the dated material in the collection ranges from the 1850s to 1984 with the bulk dating from 1900 to 1952. Arrangement The collection is organized into five series: Series 1: Publications, circa 1869-1984 Series 2: Ephemera, circa 1900-1976 Series 3: Photographs, circa 1850-1941 Series 4: Correspondence, circa 1941-1953 Series 5: Writings, circa 1880-1950 Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 Suffragists Women's rights--United States Women--Suffrage Series 1. Correspondence circa 1869-1984 Box 1, Folder 29 Letter written to Librarian [?] giving information on Anthony article, from Una R. Winter, Susan B. Anthony Memorial Library of California 1952 Box 1 , Folder 49 Thank you note to Ada Watkins Hatch for her donation of Susan B. Anthony material from the Scripps College Librarian no date Box 1 , Folder 59 Letter written to Dorothy Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, from Una R. Winter on Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California letterhead 1951 June 12 Box 1 , Folder 60 Letter written to Una Winter thanking her for the Susan B. Anthony material, from Dorothy M. Drake 1952 July 15 Guide to the Susan B. Anthony D1940.1 3 Collection Series 1.Correspondence circa 1869-1984 Box 1 , Folder 68 A letter to Dorothy Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, from Una R. Winter 1953 July 19 Box 1 , Folder 71 Carbon Copy of a letter to Mrs. Una Winter from Ernest Dawson 1941 October 10 Box 1 , Folder 71 Letter written to Mr. Ernest Dawson requesting his record of reminiscences with Susan B. Anthony, from Una R. Winter, Susan B. Anthony Memorial Library of California 1941 September 30 Box 1 , Folder 72 Letter to Miss Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, with a copy of "Some Helpful Comments Received Regarding the S.B.A. Memorial Library," from Una R. Winter 1943 March 5 Box 1 , Folder 73 Letter to Dorothy Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, from Una R. Winter, Susan B. Anthony Memorial Library of California 1952 August 9 Box 1 , Folder 78 Note to Miss Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, from Una R. Winter 1941 December 7 Box 1 , Folder 79 Letter to Miss Dorothy Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, from Una R. Winter 1942 March 13 Box 1 , Folder 80 Postcard written to Miss Dorothy Drake, Librarian, Denison Library, from Una R. Winter 1947 December 12 Series 2. Ephemera circa 1900-1976 "Dramatic Sketches of Susan B. Anthony and Other Pioneers" a booklet of sketches by Nanette B. Paul 1926 Box 1 , Folder 4 "The Anthony Home Calendar", issued by the Anthony Portrait Committee, Washington, D.C. 1900 Box 1 , Folder 10 "In Memoriam" program for Susan B. Anthony memorial service, New York 1906 Box 1 , Folder 12 Program for the Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; in memory of Susan B. Anthony 1907 February 15 Box 1 , Folder 14 program for "Thanksgiving Celebration" for passage of Susan B. Anthony Amendment, Los Angeles, California 1920 September 7 Box 1 , Folder 23 "Dedication Program -- Susan B. Anthony Tree, Sequoia National Park, California" 1938 June 26 Box 1 , Folder 24 "Dedication Program for the Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Balboa Park Pepper Grove 1940 May 12 Box 1 , Folder 30 Flyer sent to Scripps College Alumnae from the Scripps College Alumnae Association announcing a Susan B. Anthony Festival Feb. 12-15 1976 January 22 Box 1 , Folder 38 "Sayings of Susan B. Anthony", flyer printed by the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association no date Box 1 , Folder 38 "Suggestions for Planting Your Suffrage Garden", flyer printed by Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association [?] no date Box 1 , Folder 38 "Plant only the Official Suffrage Seeds", flyer selling seeds to raise money for the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association no date Box 1 , Folder 42 Postcard with a picture of Susan B. Anthony Homestead, Adams, Massachusetts 1941 Box 1 , Folder 43 Copy of a Susan B. Anthony photograph onto cardboard with a quote from Susan B.