Emma Biddlecom Sweet papers, 1808-1951
5 boxesThe Emma Biddlecom Sweet Papers includes correspondence from her friend, Carrie Chapman Catt, as well as other correspondents, including Lucy E. Anthony, Mary S. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Mary T. L. Gannett, William Channing Gannett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maud Nathan, Rush Rhees, Anna Howard Shaw and Booker T. Washington. Many of the letters are in connection with a lecture series sponsored by the Political Equality Club. Other material in the collection consists of manuscript and printed records of the national and local suffrage movement and photographs. Suffrage pamphlets that were also part of the collection are now cataloged and shelved with the Department's book collection. Also found in the collection are personal legal papers, financial records, and photographs related to Emma B. Sweet, her family, and her husband Fred G. Sweet, who was an employee of the City of Rochester.
Fortnightly Ignorance Club papers, 1881-1891
1 boxThe papers of the Fortnightly Ignorance Club consist of two manuscript volumes containing minutes of the group's meetings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and club budgets. The correspondence, between recording secretary Jenny Marsh Parker and notable women reformers (including Marie E. Zakrzewska and Susan B. Anthony), is interleaved in the volumes and indexed. The two volumes cover the periods 1881 to 1883 (volume 1) and 1886 to 1891 (volume 3) with a gap during the intervening years.
Hallowell family papers, 1856-1891
.1 Cubic feetThe Hallowell family papers, 1856-1891, consists of letters written to William Hallowell, his wife Mary (Post) Hallowell, and Mary's aunt Sarah (Kirby) Hallowell Willis. The letters mainly discuss personal affairs; many are letters of condolence after the death of William Hallowell in 1882.
Isabella Beecher Hooker and John Hooker papers, 1867-1889
7 boxesThe collection consists of letters written by and to Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) and her husband John Hooker (1816-1901). Included are almost daily reports from Isabella Beecher Hooker to her husband written from Washington, DC where, on January 12, 1872, she and Susan B. Anthony testified on behalf of a federal woman suffrage amendment before a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc. papers, 1834-1960
6 boxesThe collection is in four sections. The first (box 1) contains miscellaneous letters written by Susan B. Anthony (ten original letters and approximately seventy typescripts made by Alma Lutz while doing research for her book Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian, Boston, 1959). The letters date from 1870 to 1905. Here also are typescripts of letters from Miss Anthony to her housekeeper, friend and occasional secretary Anne E. Dann Mason (31 letters) and a copy of Mrs. Mason's reminiscences of Susan B. Anthony.
Susan Brownell Anthony papers, 1846-1943
6 boxesThe Susan Brownell Anthony Papers consist mainly of Anthony's letters to Harriet Taylor Upton, a prominent Ohio suffragist who spent much of her time working in political circles to secure the vote for women. Most of the letters were written between 1889 and 1893 and discuss Mrs. Upton's efforts to secure Congressional support for the cause of women's suffrage.
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- Anthony-Avery papers, 1882-circa 19151
- Emma Biddlecom Sweet papers, 1808-19511
- Fortnightly Ignorance Club papers, 1881-18911
- Hallowell family papers, 1856-18911
- Isabella Beecher Hooker and John Hooker papers, 1867-18891
- Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc. papers addition, 1846-19501
- Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc. papers, 1834-19601
- Susan Brownell Anthony papers, 1846-19431
Current results range from 1808 to 1960
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- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-19068
- Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester8
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-19474
- National American Woman Suffrage Association4
- Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-19193
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-19193
- Hawley, Genevieve Lel2
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-19022
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-18932
- Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc.2