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London: The Christabel Pankhurst Memorial Fund Committee, 1958. A solicitation of funds for a proposed memorial to honor the militant suffragist, Christabel Pankhurst. The front cover features a photograph of Pankhurst and a list of the committee's officers. The inside panels give a brief history of Pankhurst' contribution towards women's suffrage in Britain and a rendering of the proposed memorial. Laid in is a contribution form to be sent to Lady Pethick-Lawrence of the Memorial Fund Committee.A single sheet folded (5 ½" x 8 ½") printed on coated stock, 4 p., illus., insert laid in. A Fine copy.

Westport: New York State Branch of the National Woman's Party, 1944. A postcard from National Woman's Party State Chairman of New York, Jeannette Marks, urging supporters to send editorials to local papers in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. One of the many times the ERA legislation was before Congress and failed to pass. A 5 ½" x 3 ¼" card printed in black on the recto and in blue and red to the verso. Fine.

Washington, D. C.: Various publishers, 1934. Five publications related to James Brown Scott (1866-1943), an authority on international law, who became involved with Doris Stevens and the National Woman's Party during the late 1920s. As the NWP expanded its scope to include an international recognition of equal rights for women, Scott, who'd already worked in the international peace movement, was promulgating a new standard of nationalism that included "the adoption of nationality rules based on full individual equality" (Amorosa, p. 286). The publications below focus on this intersection and at least two of them were originally published in "Equal Rights," the National Woman's Party's magazine. Scott became Doris Stevens' law teacher and mentor at Columbia and they maintained a very close working relationship in the fight for equal rights. (For the best account of Scott's involvement with the NWP, Paolo Amorosa, Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations: How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de… Read More

Seattle: Counsellor Publishing Company, 1933. A single issue of the official organ of the Women's Legislative Council of Washington, which was published from 1916 until at least 1938. Articles include "Debts, Tariffs and Trade" by Jessie Bullock Kastner, "Farm Mortgate Loans" by Lady Willie Forbus, "International Relations" by the W. L. C. W. Peace Dept., "Drug Habits - Morphine" by Frank L. Wood, M. D., and many shorter items on topics of interest to W. L. C. W. readers.Small tabloid format, stapled wrappers (9 ½" x 12"), 8 p., photographs. Single hole punch to the top left corner, creases from folding, light toning and wear. All issues scarce. Only four institutions hold any issues in OCLC - all in Washington.

Montevideo, [193-]. Letterhead from this Uruguayan political party founded at the end of 1932 following the passage of the woman's suffrage law. The party was founded by the militant feminist and lawyer, Sara Rey Alvarez, and participated in the 1938 general elections, but without much success. Printed on an 8 ½" x 11" sheet of Bond paper. Some minor creasing, foxing, with two punctures along the left edge.

Bloemfontein: Gedruk deuf Die Sentrale Pers, [195-]. First edition. A booklet commemorating the National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dedicated to the women who died in Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Includes a history of the monument's conception and construction, the suffering and death of women during the war, and short biographies of three individuals buried at the monument's base: the last President of the Orange Free State, President Steyn, who spearheaded the monument's creation; General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, who fought heroically during the war; and Emily Hobhouse who lived through and then wrote a book called "The Brunt of the War" about the Concentration Camps. Concludes with a 1913 letter sent by Miss Hobhouse from England to friends in Bloemfontein.Perfect-bound green wrappers (4 ¾" x 7 "), 57 p., four photographs of the monument, three of Steyn, Wet, and Hobhouse. Some minor wear along the spine, else Near Fine.

London: The Open Door Council, 1929. A call by this London-based feminist organization for a conference in Berlin, June 15-16, 1929, for the purpose of forming an international organization to further the following objective: "To secure that a woman shall be free to work and protected as a worker on the same terms as a man, and that legislation and regulations dealing with conditions and hours, payment, entry and training shall be based upon the nature of the work and not upon the sex of the worker; and to secure for a woman, irrespective of marriage or childbirth, the right at all times to decide whether or not she shall engage in paid work, and to ensure that no legislation or regulations shall deprive her of this right."The Open Door Council was founded in 1926 and lasted until 1965. It was affiliated with the feminist organization, Six Point Group, founded by the suffragette, Viscountess Rhondda, in 1921. A single sheet of yellow stock folded (8 ¼" x 13 ½"), 4 p. Single hole punch in the top… Read More

Trenton: State Board of Beauty Control, 1939. New Jersey's bureaucratic regulations for engagement in the beauty culture industry. Small, stapled green wrappers (4" x 6"), 24 p. Wear, foxing and soiling to wrappers; corners of the first few leaves are bumped.

[Washington, D. C.?]: [National Woman's Party?], 1929. A scarce pamphlet reprinting a speech made by influential suffragist and women's rights advocate Doris Stevens at a banquet of the Institut de Droit International held at Briarcliff Lodge on Columbus Day, 1929. In her speech, Stevens compares the lives of Hatshepsut, the first Egyptian Queen, whose jealous husband tried to erase her memory upon her death with Queen Isabella of Castile, who working in equality with her husband, King Ferdinand, financed Columbus' expedition and changed the course of history. Stevens' speech complimented that of her law teacher and mentor, James Scott Brown, who spoke on "The Discovery of America and Its Influence on International Law" (see, Amorosa, Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations: How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de Vitoria the Founder of International Law, p. 289). Although Stevens never finished a law degree, she gave her speech as the newly appointed, and first female, secretary of the Institut… Read More

Atlantic City, New Jersey: Central Studios, 1941. A three-and-a-half foot panoramic photograph taken at the Golden Jubilee Triennial of General Federation of Women's Clubs, which was held 19-24 May 1941 in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Dennis Hotel. Although the organization celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding on April 24, 1940, it was decided to mark the occasion at their convention the following year. The program for this convention was "developed around two central ideas - a review of our past accomplishments and a forecast of the opportunities and responsibilities ahead" (from a "call to convention" letter). A "New York Times" article from May 19, 1941 reports: "Pageantry provided the highlight here tonight at the opening of the golden jubilee celebration of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Quaint bonnets and hoop skirts, lace mitts and Paisley shawls were prominent in the stately processional that opened the fiftieth annual meeting in Convention Hall, dedicated to the… Read More

1945. An original 5" x 7" publicity photograph of Anita Pollitzer, Chairman of the New York City Committee, National Woman's Party and the newly elected National Chairman of the National Woman's Party. Pollitzer, a Charleston-born Jew, was an active suffragette who was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment. She served as NWP Chairman from 1945-49. She also "discovered" Georgia O'Keefe in 1915 by giving some charcoal drawings O'Keefe had sent her to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 Gallery in NYC. Stieglitz exhibited 10 of her paintings in early 1916 and later married O'Keefe. Pollitzer and O'Keefe remained friends for the duration of their lives and late in her life Pollitzer wrote A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keefe, which included letters between the two, and was published posthumously in 1988 (Wikipedia).