The Caroline Katzenstein papers document Katzenstein's participation in the women's suffrage movement from 1909 to 1921, her efforts to help women obtain equal pay for equal work in the 1920s, her tireless promotion of the Equal Rights Amendment from 1923 to 1965, and her early career as an insurance agent (1909-ca. 1930). Katzenstein's book, Lifting the Curtain, is in HSP's library collections. Among the materials are her typed and handwritten correspondence; papers pertaining to her book, Lifting the Curtain; her published paper, The Sporting Spirit tracts, broadsides, and convention programs from national and Pennsylvania suffrage groups; her executive secretary reports for the Pennsylvania Woman's Suffrage Association; correspondence pertaining to the National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment; ERA resolutions, hearings and congressional testimonies; a scrapbook with newspaper clippings; photographs of women suffragists; and a 1955 review of Lifting the Curtain, presented on WCAUFM, Philadelphia. There is scant information on Katzenstein's personal life or her family.
