Records of the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, [ca. 1906]- 1941.

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Records of the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, [ca. 1906]- 1941.

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The bulk of this collection consists of suffrage pamphlets and correspondence between Mary A. Hunter, president of the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, and Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and honorary president of the commission. Even after the commission erected its memorial, the two women remained in contact, discussing in particular the preservation of materials relating to the suffrage movement, especially in Iowa.

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Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...

Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission.

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The Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission was organized "to commemorate the efforts of the Pioneer Suffragists and the long procession of workers who helped to secure the final enfranchisement of women." The commission succeeded in having a bronze bas relief erected in the state capitol building in Des Moines, which was unveiled on May 10, 1936. The commission also made a cabinet available in the Historical Memorial and Art Building in Des Moines for the preservation of docu...

Hunter, Mary Ankeny.

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