Primary Source Spotlight: Woman Suffrage

Last Updated on March 11, 2021

PSN curated primary source collections

• Today in History
  • Jane Addams
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Carrie S. Burnham
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Alice Paul
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Mary Church Terrell
  • Congress Approves 19th Amendment
  • Picketing for Suffrage
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Woman’s Rights Conventions

Library collections

• Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
• Anna E. Dickerson Papers
• By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920
• Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks 1897-1911
• National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 1848-1921
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party
• Women’s Suffrage in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Collections
• Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music

Suffrage Images

• Select images: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
• Suffragettes
• Suffragists
• Woman suffrage
• Women’s suffrage

Online exhibitions

• Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Right to Vote
• John Bull & Uncle Sam: From Abolition to Equal Rights

Teaching resources

• Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote

Timelines

• One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
• Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880)
• Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era

Library blog posts

• Carrie Chapman Catt and the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission Teaching with the Library of Congress November 14, 2019
• Celebrate Women’s History Month with Mabel Ping-Hua Lee and Suffragist Cards Minerva’s Kaleidoscope March 10, 2021
• Celebrating Women’s History: Women on the March Library of Congress Blog March 27, 2017
• Centennial of the 1913 Suffrage March In Custodia Legis February 26, 2013
• Counting Down with #19Suffrage Stories: 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Library of Congress Blog August 2, 2020
• Polarizing Political Issues: The Anti-Suffrage Rose In The Muse March 27th, 2019
• Shall Not Be Denied Exhibition: A Single Image Prompts Further Looking Teaching with the Library of Congress September 5, 2019
• Sheet Music of the Week: Suffragette Edition In The Muse August 31, 2011
• Suffrage Music on Parade In The Muse March 13th, 2019
• Suffrage Music on Parade: Part Two In The Muse March 20th, 2019
• Suffragists in Song Library of Congress Blog March 25, 2019
• Mothers and Daughters in the Movement Minerva’s Kaleidoscope August 26, 2020

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