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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82012997
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffrage leader, lecturer, and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Blatch in 1932. An addition was donated by Rhoda Jenkins in 1991.
The papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch were arranged and described in 1984 by Mary W. Wolfskill. The collection was expanded and revised in 1997 by Bradley E. Gernand and the finding aid revised in 2007.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Harriet Stanton Blatch is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Harriet Stanton Blatch are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on five reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Harriot Stanton Blatch Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) consist of scrapbooks documenting the women's suffrage movement in New York from 1907 to 1915, the year the suffrage bill passed the state legislature, thus allowing it to be put before the electorate. Arranged in fourteen volumes in rough chronological sequence, the scrapbooks contain clippings, correspondence, questionnaires, reports on debates, pamphlets, photographs, and annual reports of the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later called the Women's Political Union, which Blatch founded. At the end of the first twelve volumes is a selected subject index. Two scrapbooks (Vol. XIII and Vol. XIV) added to the collection in 1997 contain clippings dating between 1909 and 1912.
An historical essay by Nora Blatch de Forest, Blatch's daughter, at the beginning of Volume I highlights many of the political activities evident in the scrapbooks. These include appearances before congressional committees, distribution of suffrage literature, service as "watchers" at the polls, lectures before mass meetings, organization of suffrage parades, support for legislators sympathetic to the cause and opposition to those unfavorable, lobbying political parties to include the suffrage amendment in their platforms, monitoring bills through the legislature, and other actions. Volume XII is devoted to the centennial celebration of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
This collection is arranged by volume number in a rough chronological sequence.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82012997
Available on microfilm. Shelf nos. 18,964 (reels 1-4) and 21,173 (reel 5)