Women's archives, 1890-1953.

Berrien, Laura M. (Laura Maria), 1877-1962

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Laura Maria Berrien (sometimes Barrien or Berrin), born in Waynesboro, Georgia on 1 November 1877, worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter Moore and Elizabeth (Palmer) Berrien. She had one brother, John Berrien. Laura’s grandfather, John Berrien, fought in the Battle of the Jerseys during the American Revolution, becoming an original member of the Cincinnati of Georgia. Now known as the Society of the Cincinnati, this organization is the nation’s oldest voluntary societ...

World Center for Women's Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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World Center for Women's Archives was an organization established by Rosika Schwimmer and Mary Ritter Beard in the hopes of creating an educational collection which women could consult to learn about the history of women. The center was located in the Biltmore Hotel at 41 Park Avenue in New York City. It closed in 1940, but the efforts made to establish a center to collect records encouraged several colleges and universities to begin develop similar archives of women's history. It was one of the...

Irwin, Inez Haynes, 1873-1970

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Inez Haynes Gillmore was a suffragist, activist and writer, and the wife of Will Irwin. From the description of The adventure of California : typescript, [19--]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214983819 Inez Haynes Irwin (March 2, 1873 – September 25, 1970) was an American feminist author, journalist, member of the National Women's Party, and president of the Authors Guild. Many of her works were published under her former name Inez Haynes Gillmore...

Norton, Mary Teresa, 1875-1959

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Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins, March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she attended parochial schools and Jersey City High School before graduating from Packard Business College, New York City in 1896. She worked as a secretary and stenographer until she married Robert Francis Norton in April 1909. As part of the healin...

Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Minturn, James F. (James Francis), 1860-1934

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Seufert, Evelyn

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Marsh, Helena Aurora

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Stratton, Katharine

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Voorhees, Stella, 1888-

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Grove, Elsa Butler, 1884-1969

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Grove, a 1905 Vassar graduate, was a medical social worker who was with the Red Cross at Verdun during World War I and did child relief work in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. From the description of Elsa Butler Grove papers, 1921-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576487 From the description of Papers, 1921-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519031 ...

Dowden, Maria R.

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Sullivan, Katherine A. 1978-

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Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

Milwitzky, Selma March

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New Jersey Center for Women's Archives

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United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

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Morrow, Elizabeth, 1873-1955

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Smith College, Class of 1896. Married Dwight Whitney Morrow, 1903. Smith College Alumnae Association, President, 1917-1920. Smith College Board of Trustees, 1920-1955. Acting President, Smith College, 1939-1940. From the description of Elizabeth Cutter Morrow papers, 1939-1940. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51183507 From the description of [Stories / Elizabeth Morrow] [1930-1943] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 289542363 Elizabeth Reeve Cutt...

Edge, Walter E. (Walter Evans), 1873-1956

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Self made advertising millionaire; Governor of New Jersey, U. S. Senator, Ambassador to France. From the description of Walter Evans Edge letter to Curtis P. Brady [manuscript], 1924. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 174964733 Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) was a notable New Jersey businessman and politician. He was elected to serve New Jersey as Governor (1917-1919, 1944-1947) and as a United States Senator (1919-1929). Edge was born in Philadelphia...

Shouse, Martha

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Philbrook, Mary

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Mary Philbrook (1872-1958), a prominent Newark, N.J. (Essex County) lawyer, women's rights activist and social reformer. Philbrook, the first woman admitted to the bar in N.J. in 1895, acted as counsel for the legal aid society of Whittier House Social Settlement, where her work led to the formation of the New Jersey Legal Aid Association. In 1906, she became the first N.J. woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Philbrook lobbied for penal reforms for women and children, worke...

McKay, Florence Gompers

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Winser, Beatrice, 1869-1947

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Consumers League of New Jersey

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The Consumers League of New Jersey was founded in 1900. In that era, children worked in factories, and many of the protections of modern life which we take for granted were nonexistent. Consumers League struggled for 35 years before its original agenda: safe food, safe working conditions, prohibitions on child labor, promotion of minimum wages laws, and union protections, was enacted into law as the New Deal. It is the oldest continuing state-wide consumer organization in the United States. ...

Sloane, Madeline Edison, 1888-

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Sheppard, Fannie, 1906-

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