Wisconsin Women's History

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Wisconsin Women's History

Manuscripts and ephemera documenting the lives of women in Wisconsin.

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  • NEW! Jane Lloyd Jones: Correspondence of Jane Lloyd Jones concerning the difficulties encountered in the operation of Hillside Home School in the Town of Wyoming, Iowa County, Wisconsin.
  • NEW! Edna Ferber: A small selection of speeches, articles, and letters of Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright.
  • Clara Colby: Selection of papers of Clara Colby, a feminist, founder/editor of the Woman's Tribune, and officer of the Federal Suffrage Association, which document her personal life, her suffrage activities, her work as a lecturer and newspaper editor, and her interest in New Thought. Included are clippings, correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, printed materials, and speeches. Prominent correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Olympia Brown, Belva Lockwood, Marilla Ricker, Ellen Sabin, and officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and other state and international suffrage organizations.
  • Frances Bull Fairchild: Correspondence and speeches of Frances Bull Fairchild, selected from the Lucius Fairchild Papers.
  • Mathilde Franziska Anneke: (Note: German language needed) Madame Anneke was the author of poems, dramas, and many short articles; editor of a revolutionary newspaper in Germany and of a women's rights newspaper in America in the fifties; a lecturer; the head of a school for girls in Milwaukee for eighteen years; and a pioneer in the equal suffrage movement in Wisconsin.

Collection image: Carrie Chapman Catt (undated).

Lloyd Jones (Jane Lloyd Jones Correspondence, 1899-1940; Wisconsin Historical Society, Box 1)

Lloyd Jones (Jane Lloyd Jones Correspondence, 1899-1940; Wisconsin Historical Society, Box 1)

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Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 4)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 4)

Correspondence, and manuscripts of Mathilde Anneke, an author and woman's rights advocate, who lived primarily in Milwaukee after 1849. The correspondence, practically all of which is in German script, contains much information on the opinions and activities of German-American intellectuals of...

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Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 6)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 6)

Correspondence, and manuscripts of Mathilde Anneke, an author and woman's rights advocate, who lived primarily in Milwaukee after 1849. The correspondence, practically all of which is in German script, contains much information on the opinions and activities of German-American intellectuals of...

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Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, Miscellaneous Undated (Box 5, Folder 5)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, Miscellaneous Undated (Box 5, Folder 5)

Correspondence, and manuscripts of Mathilde Anneke, an author and woman's rights advocate, who lived primarily in Milwaukee after 1849. The correspondence, practically all of which is in German script, contains much information on the opinions and activities of German-American intellectuals of...

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Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, Miscellaneous, undated (Box 5, Folder 7)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, Miscellaneous, undated (Box 5, Folder 7)

Correspondence, and manuscripts of Mathilde Anneke, an author and woman's rights advocate, who lived primarily in Milwaukee after 1849. The correspondence, practically all of which is in German script, contains much information on the opinions and activities of German-American intellectuals of...

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