Catch the Suffragists' Spirit: The Millers' Suffrage Scrapbooks with Rosemary Fry Plakas (Journeys and Crossings, Library of Congress Digital Reference Section)

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Catch the Suffragists' Spirit: The Millers' Suffrage Scrapbooks
Meet Rosemary Fry Plakas, American History Specialist, Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.	Rosemary Fry Plakas, American History Specialist, Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, discusses the scrapbooks compiled between 1897 and 1911 by Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, of Geneva, New York, that document the efforts of women and men working for women's suffrage at the state, national, and international levels. View Webcast Read a transcript Note: To view the Webcast, you must have the RealPlayer software, available at the RealNetworks player download site.
Library of Congress Web Sites of Interest
The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller Scrapbooks Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/millerscrapbooks/ The Miller Scrapbooks digitized and made available online, with contextualizing information. Other American Memory Collections and Resources American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/ For material related to women’s rights, select the keyword-search full-text option, then search on terms such as suffrage, women, or female. By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/ Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html Includes the draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, circa 1895. Exhibitions Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html Today in History January 3: Lucretia Mott http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan03.html January 11: Alice Paul http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan11.html March 8: Susan B. Anthony and Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar08.html April 4: Carrie S. Burnham http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr04.html May 28: The Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may28.html June 4: Congress Approves Nineteenth Amendment http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun04.html July 19: The Seneca Falls Convention http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul19.html July 20: The Seneca Falls Convention Continues http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul20.html August 28: Picketing for Suffrage http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug28.html September 23: Mary Church Terrell http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep23.html November 12: Elizabeth Cady Stanton http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov12.html#cadystanton December 10: Wyoming Day http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec10.html Today in History archive http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html Search the Today in History archives on terms such as women, suffrage, voting, to find additional entries related to the Miller Scrapbooks. Teachers Page Collection Connections: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/suffrage-scrapbooks/ Collection Connections: Women’s History http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/womens-history/collections.html Exhibitions and Presentations: Women’s History http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/womens-history/exhibitions.html Lesson Plans: Women’s History http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/womens-history/lessonplans.html Primary Source Set: Women’s Suffrage http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage/ Search Terms: Women’s History http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/womens-history/search-terms.html Themed Resources: Women’s History http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/womens-history/ Themed Resources: Women’s History: For Students http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/womens-history/students.html Other Library of Congress Sites Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Other Web Sites of Interest
Finger Lakes National Forest http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/greenmountain/htm/fingerlakes/f_home.htm Web site includes information about Fossenvue, the site where Elizabeth Smith Miller, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, and family and friends camped in the summertime during the years 1875-1901, on the following pages: The History of Fossenvue, and the Queen’s Castle http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/greenmountain/htm/fingerlakes/links/press/docs/ forest_notes_article_fossenvue_flnf.pdf Treasure in Women's Rights Movement Discovered on Finger Lakes National Forest http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=273 Secrets Revealed inside the Queen's Castle http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=1091 Geneva Historical Society http://www.genevahistoricalsociety.com/ Web site of the organization dedicated “to preserving and interpreting the collective heritage of Geneva, New York, and its environs.” The Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark http://www.gerritsmith.org/ Historic estate of Elizabeth Smith Miller’s father, Gerrit Smith, an influential philanthropist and abolitionist. The Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum, on New York History Net http://www.nyhistory.com/gerritsmith/index.htm Site devoted to Elizabeth Smith Miller’s father, an influential philanthropist and abolitionist. It includes a biography of Miller at http://www.nyhistory.com/gerritsmith/esm.htm. Lodi Historical Society: Fossenvue http://www.lodihistoricalsociety.com/node/200 Web page on the site where Elizabeth Smith Miller, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, and family and friends camped in the summertime during the years 1875-1901. Self Works: Diaries, Scrapbooks, and Other Autobiographical Efforts http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/selfwork/ An online exhibit from the University of Delaware. Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections http://library.syr.edu/find/scrc/ Holds primary-source materials concerning the Smith and Miller families. Western New York Suffragists http://winningthevote.org/ An extensive resource from the Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC) on the suffrage movement in western New York. Includes biographies of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller.
Other Materials of Interest
Primary Sources Blatch, Harriot Stanton, and Alma Lutz. Challenging Years: The Memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch. New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940. LC call number: JK1899.B55 A4 http://lccn.loc.gov/40011207 Bloomer, D.C. Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer. Boston: Arena Publishing Co., 1895. LC call number: HQ1413.B6 B6 http://lccn.loc.gov/14015880 Available online from the Harvard University Library at http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:225489 Catt, Carrie Chapman, and Nettie Rogers Shuler. Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926. LC call number: JK1896 .C3 1926 http://lccn.loc.gov/27006874 Available online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbnawsa.n6874 Congdon, Charles H., ed. Geneva, New York, the Lake Side City: Its Industrial, Social, Educational and Residential Advantages. Geneva, N.Y.: The Geneva Chamber of Commerce, [1905?]. LC call number: F129.G3 C67 http://lccn.loc.gov/16021930 Geneva Advertiser. Geneva, N.Y.: 1880-1902. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031546/ Geneva Courier. Geneva, N.Y.: 1831-1904. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83031163/ Gerrit Smith Papers. Special Collections Department, Syracuse University Library. http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/smith_g.htm Miller, Elizabeth Smith. Correspondence. Smith Family Papers, 1769-1907. Manuscripts Collections, New York Public Library. http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b18709245~S1 -----. Diary. Smith-Miller Family Collection. Mary King Research Library, Madison County (N.Y.) Historical Society. http://mchs1900.org/index.php?pageid=research&idnum=32 -----. In the Kitchen. Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875. LC call number: TX715 .M647 http://lccn.loc.gov/08023592 Available online from the Cornell University Library on the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924085803165. National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, 1839-1961. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. http://lccn.loc.gov/mm77034132 Finding Aid: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998019 Robert Huff Papers, 1900- . Special Collections, Warren Huntington Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. http://voyager.hws.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=301307 Finding Aid: http://archive.hws.edu/Archives/pdfs/huff.pdf Numerous materials pertaining to Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller. Shaw, Anna Howard, with Elizabeth Jordan. The Story of a Pioneer. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1915. LC call number: JK1899.S6 A3 http://lccn.loc.gov/15018433 Available online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lhbum.18433 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, et al., eds. History of Woman Suffrage. 6 vols. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881-1922. LC call number: JK1896 .S8 1881 http://lccn.loc.gov/03016908 Secondary Sources Baker, Jean H., ed. Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. LC call number: JK1896 .V67 2002 http://lccn.loc.gov/2001036768 Brumberg, G. David. The Making of an Upstate Community, Geneva, New York, 1750-1920. Geneva, N.Y.: Geneva Bicentennial Commission, 1976. LC call number: F129.G3 B78 1976 http://lccn.loc.gov/76370909 Buckler, Patricia Prandini. “From the Personal to the Historical.” Magazine of the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, 3, no. 1(Summer 2003): 2-13. LC call number: Z7845.C5 M37 http://lccn.loc.gov/2002211571 Camhi, Jane Jerome. Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1994. LC call number: JK1896 .C26 1994 http://lccn.loc.gov/94020242 Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. LC call number: HQ1420 .C67 1987 http://lccn.loc.gov/87010642 Davis, Michael R. “The ‘Dear Old Book’: Mary Baker Eddy’s Dialogue with the Written Word.” Magazine of the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, 3, no. 1(Summer 2003): 14-19. LC call number: Z7845.C5 M37 http://lccn.loc.gov/2002211571 DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. LC call number: HQ1423 .D8 1999 http://lccn.loc.gov/00268307 -----. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. LC call number: HQ1413.B545 D83 1997 http://lccn.loc.gov/97007293 Flexner, Eleanor, and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States.. Enlarged edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996. LC call number: HQ1410 .F6 1996 http://lccn.loc.gov/96005651 Helfand, Jessica. Scrapbooks: An American History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. LC call number: E740.5 .H43 2008 http://lccn.loc.gov/2008923233 Huff, Robert A. “Anne Miller and the Geneva Political Equality Club, 1897-1912.” New York History 65 (October 1984): 325-48. LC call number: F116 .N865 http://lccn.loc.gov/21027150 Jablonsky, Thomas J. The Home, Heaven, and Mother Party: Female Anti-Suffragists in the United States, 1868-1920. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1994. LC call number: JK1896 .J33 1994 http://lccn.loc.gov/94017663 Kerber, Linda K., Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds. U.S. History As Women’s History: New Feminist Essays. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. LC call number: HQ1410 .U17 1995 http://lccn.loc.gov/94027192 Kraditor, Aileen S. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. 1965; rpt. New York: Norton, 1981. LC call number: JK1896 .K7 1981 http://lccn.loc.gov/80021356 Lowery, George, and Dana Cooke. "Hobart and the Women's Suffrage Debate." The Pulteney St. Survey (Summer 1997). Melvin, L. Rebecca Johnson. “From Victorian Scrapbooks to Blogs: A Librarian Encounters Lives Revealed.” Magazine of the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, 3, no. 1(Summer 2003): 20-23. LC call number: Z7845.C5 M37 http://lccn.loc.gov/2002211571 Scott, Anne Firor, and Andrew MacKay Scott. One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage. 1975; rpt. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. LC call number: JK1896 .S36 1982 http://lccn.loc.gov/82008563 Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. LC call number: JK1896 .T47 1998 http://lccn.loc.gov/97041896 Tucker, Susan, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler, eds. The Scrapbook in American Life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. LC call number: TR465 .S393453 2006 http://lccn.loc.gov/2005052875 Weatherford, Doris. A History of the American Suffragist Movement. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1998. LC call number: JK1896 .W43 1998 http://lccn.loc.gov/98013821

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