Selected Special Collections

Carrie Chapman Catt Collection

Library and papers of Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

In 1939 Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Assocation (NAWSA), donated her "feminist library" to the Library of Congress on behalf of her organization. Formerly the NAWSA's reference collection, the gift includes volumes from the libraries of Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and other reformers.

Digitized Materials from the Carrie Chapman Catt Collection

Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks; 1897-1911

Votes for Women; Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association; 1848-1921