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Gift, Edna Lamprey Stantial, 1960-1961 ; Gifts, Elinor Rice Hays, 1967 and 1984 ; Purchase, 1977 and 1998 (from manuscript division MARC record).
Transfer; Manuscript Division (Blackwell family papers); 1968 (DLC/PP-1968:005) ; Transfer; Manuscript Division (Blackwell family papers); 1985 (DLC/PP-1985:108).
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Original lantern slides, daguerreotype, and negatives are available through photographic surrogates in this LOT. A color photocopy surrogate of a portrait button of Lucy Stone is provided in LOT 13267-2 in lieu of the original. Original lantern slide boxes and the original portrait button are housed in the Prints & Photographs Division Supplementary Archives (call number: Suppl. Archives-- Blackwell family papers).
Digitized images of some items in the collection and their associated identifying information are available through the
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: LOT 13267, Visual Materials from the Blackwell family papers, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family, and others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage.
Arranged into two subdivisions: LOT 13267-1 (photocopy surrogates of original b&w and hand-colored lantern slides in filing series LC-B633) and LOT 13267-2 (photographic prints and collotype).
LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. The first thirty-seven reproductions (lantern slides LC-B633-1 to LC-B633-37) show images used by Mary Foulke Morrisson and Maud Wood Park in speeches delivered Jan.9, 1939 in recognition of the eightieth birthday of Carrie Chapman Catt. Photocopies of the speeches and corresponding lantern slide caption lists are included in the LOT. These images include portraits of Catt as a child and young adult; portraits of her parents Lucius and Maria Lane; Catt and others attending meetings of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance; suffrage parades and pageants. One slide shows Catt with board members of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Additional photocopies (lantern slide numbers LC-B633-38 to LC-B633-75) depict suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Maud Wood Park, Julia Ward Howe, and Catherine Breshkovsky, suffrage meetings, hearings, and parades.
LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family: women's suffrage leader Alice Blackwell; her parents Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone, abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Alice's aunt, first woman to receive an academic medical degree and activist for women in the medical profession; and Hannah Lane Blackwell, matriarch of the family; also, one portrait of Lucy Stone designed to be worn as a button and one photograph of Lucy Stone's birthplace in West Brookfield, Mass. Also includes portraits of others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage; officers and members of the National American Women's Suffrage Association and the National League of Women Voters; snapshots of women marching in a suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 17, 1917. Other suffrage activities depicted include Judge Florence Allen and Bertha A. Miller on a 1913 pilgrimage march from New York to Washington, D.C.; Florence Allen, Elizabeth J. Hauser and Greta Coleman checking and sorting suffrage petitions in Ohio, 1914; Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett signing the Suffrage Bill, June 5, 1919.