Statement on Woman’s Rights from an Iowa Woman
Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate Series: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled File Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents which were Presented, Read, or Tabled during the 65th Congress
This statement, printed by the Iowa Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and signed by a woman from Dubuque, Iowa, asks Congress to oppose the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It lists the rights that women have and why they do not need the vote, including that it would be a burden and would be “demoralizing to our government and our womanhood.”
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“Deborah Gannett … maketh oath, that she served as a private soldier, under the name of Robert Shurtliff in the war of the revolution …”
Pension and Bounty Land Application of Deborah (Sampson) Gannett, September 14, 1818.
Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Series: Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service
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1st LT Jeannie Flynn was the U.S. Air Force’s first female fighter pilot. She posed with a model of the F-15E at the start of her training period on July 26, 1993.
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Image description: LT Flynn stands behind a model of an F-15E fighter jet. She is wearing a U.S. Air Force flight suit and is grinning.
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President Carter addresses the Task Force on Women Business Owners, June 28, 1978.
Collection JC-WHSP: White House Staff Photographers Collection
Series: Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Photographs
File Unit: Women’s Task Force Report Presentation in Rose Garden
Image description: President Carter stands at a podium outside the White House. On the steps next to and behind him are nine women and three men.
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12-year-old Carolyn King fought for a spot on her local Little League team, despite the national Little League organization prohibiting girls from playing. She brought her suit to federal court.
Dr. Louis Kivi confirmed that baseball was not any more dangerous to girls than it was to boys on June 27, 1973 (p. 1, 6).
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States
Series: Civil Case Files
File Unit: Carolyn King, by Gerald King, her Next Friend, Ypsilanti Community American Little League, and the City of Ypsilanti v. Little League Baseball, Inc.
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Petition from women of Georgia against the women’s suffrage amendment:
“ … the inevitable result of the legislation proposed would be to destroy white supremacy and States’ rights.” June 12, 1913.
Series: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled
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“I have earned my own living since I was eighteen, can read and write good English and take an interest in the affairs of my country … many men who do none of these things, may vote indiscriminately.” Letter in support of suffrage for women, 5/23/1918.
Series: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled
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Some handy tips from the War Department’s “You’re Going to Employ Women” pamphlet, April 1, 1943.
Unfortunately, this is not a joke.
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C.A. Phillips’ Bosom-Pads, patented on February 18, 1873.
… ow.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Drawing of a pair of what we’d now call bra inserts. Each side is made of a stiff wire curved into a sort of cloverleaf shape to create a curved structure, with padding on the outside. Between the two pads is a cloth tape, presumably so the wearer can connect the pads to their undergarment.
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Complaint, Ludtke v Kuhn, 12/29/1977.
Journalist Melissa Ludtke sued MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn over the Yankees’ policy of banning female reporters from the locker room. The Court found that the policy violated the equal protection and due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States
File Unit: [Melissa Ludtke and Time, Incorporated v. Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, et al.]
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Faytie Alone Kitchens Karlovic took this oath of allegiance to regain her rights as a U.S. citizen 11/20/1942.
From 1907 to 1922, American women lost their American citizenship after marrying non-Americans.
Series: Repatriation Oaths of Allegiance, 1941 - 1950
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
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Rosalynn Carter speaks to an audience of Equal Rights Amendment supporters during the National Women’s Conference, 11/19/1977.
The ERA was three states’ ratifications short of the 38 needed when the ratification deadline passed.
File Unit: National Womens Conference, 11/19/1977 - 11/19/1977
Series: Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Photographs , 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981
Collection: White House Staff Photographers Collection, 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981
Image description: Rosalynn Carter speaks at a podium in front of a banner reading “ERAMERICA.” Several other women stand behind Mrs. Carter.
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