Woman's Journal records, 1870-1917
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Summary
- Creator:
- Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
- Abstract:
- Woman's Journal was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. Collection comprises a journal recording the meeting minutes of the stockholders and directors of the Woman's Journal in Boston, 21 February 1870 through 1897, with accounts in different hands. Also includes a volume of share certificates for the proprietors of the Woman's Journal, with stubs filled out, a few of the signed certificates still present, and blanks, dated 1911-1917.
- Extent:
- 1.0 Linear Foot (2 items)
- Language:
- Materials in English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.13014
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection comprises a journal recording the meeting minutes of the stockholders and directors of the Woman's Journal in Boston, 21 February 1870 through 1897, with accounts in different hands. Organizers in 1870 included Henry Blackwell, S.E. Sewall, Ebenezer Draper, Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and Caroline M. Severance. Also includes a volume of share certificates for the proprietors of the Woman's Journal, with stubs filled out, a few of the signed certificates still present, and blanks, dated 1911-1917.
- Biographical / historical:
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Woman's Journal was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.
- Acquisition information:
- The Woman's Journal records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2020.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Alice Poffinberger, July, 2023
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2020-0010
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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