Clara Bewick Colby Papers, 1821-1985 (bulk 1860-1916)

Container Title
Mss 379
Part 1 (Mss 379): Original Collection, 1860-1957
Physical Description: 3.0 cubic feet (8 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Papers, mainly 1860-1916, 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 the New Thought religious philosophy. Included are clippings, correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, photographs, printed materials, speeches, and a few records of the Federal Suffrage Association. 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. Personal papers concern Colby's experiences as a University of Wisconsin student (1865-1869), her marital separation and divorce, and her adopted Sioux Indian daughter.
Series: Biographical Material
Box   1
Folder   1
Biographical material, 1878-1916, 1957, undated
Box   8
Folder   5
Colby lecture announcements, women's organizations, 1882-1915
Box   8
Folder   6
Certificates and memorabilia, 1872-1915
Box   1
Folder   2-6
Series: Diaries, 1868, 1909, 1913-1915
Series: Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   7
Anthony, Susan B., 1887-1901
Box   1
Folder   8
Brown, Olympia, 1889-1892, 1903-1906, 1910
Box   1
Folder   9
Lockwood, Belva A., 1891-1916
Personal correspondence
Box   1
Folder   10-13
1860-1879
Box   2
Folder   1-6
1880-1916
Box   2
Folder   7-10
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1887-1902, undated
Box   3
Folder   1-5
Suffrage and other activities, 1880-1916
Series: Federal Suffrage/Equality Association
Box   3
Folder   6
Account book, 1912-1916
Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   7
1903, 1909, 1914-1915
Box   4
Folder   1
1915-1916
Box   4
Folder   2
Printed material, reports, testimony, 1904, 1913-1916
Series: Woman's Tribune
Box   4
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1888-1910
Box   4
Folder   4
Writings by others, 1886, undated
Series: Writings
Box   4
Folder   5-6
College essays and papers, 1867-1869, undated
Manuscripts
Box   4
Folder   7
“Child in Hungary,” undated
Box   4
Folder   8
Christmas and Easter customs, 1914, undated
Box   4
Folder   9
“Compulsory arbitration,” 1901, undated
Box   4
Folder   10
England, 1914, undated
Box   4
Folder   11
“Flowers and soul-force”
Box   4
Folder   12
Fuller, Margaret, 1895, 1903, 1910, undated
Box   5
Folder   1
Great women, 1891, 1901, undated
Box   5
Folder   2
History of Ireland, undated
Box   5
Folder   3
History of the Netherlands, undated
Box   5
Folder   4
“Human rights the foundation of government,” undated
Box   5
Folder   5
Hus, John, undated
Box   5
Folder   6
“The liquor question, and can it be settled,” undated
Box   5
Folder   7-8
“London Past and Present,” 1914
Box   5
Folder   9-10
“Old Louisiana,” undated
Box   5
Folder   11
Rabrindranath Tagore, undated
Box   5
Folder   12
“Special correspondence to the (Oregon) Journal,” 1910-1911
Box   5
Folder   13
Various subjects, 1908, 1914
Box   6
Folder   1
Women in literature and religion, undated
Box   6
Folder   2
“Women in the building of America,” undated
Box   6
Folder   3
“Women's suffrage in England,” undated
Box   6
Folder   4
Women's suffrage and suffrage leaders, undated
Notebooks, circa 1869-1914, undated
Box   6
Folder   5
Unnumbered volume, circa 1869
Box   6
Folder   6-10
Numbers 1,4,5,8,9
Box   7
Folder   1-4
Numbers 13,16,24,25
Box   7
Folder   5-7
Unnumbered Volumes
Notes
Box   7
Folder   8
“History and Spiritual Significance of Women's Suffrage,” undated
Box   7
Folder   9
Philosophy and religion, undated
Box   7
Folder   10
Various subjects, 1914, undated
Box   7
Folder   11
Women, 1903-1907, 1913, undated
Box   7
Folder   12
Women in literature, undated
Box   8
Folder   1
Poetry, undated
Box   8
Folder   2
Printed articles, 1881, 1902, 1910-1913, undated
Speeches
Box   8
Folder   3
Centennial Exposition, 1892-1893
Box   8
Folder   4
Women's rights, suffrage leaders, undated
Box   8
Folder   5
Lecture announcements, Women's organizations, 1882-1915
Box   8
Folder   6
Certificates and Memorabilia, 1872-1915
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