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Women's Suffrage Speeches
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Finding aid created by: Michele Combs
Date: 26 Feb 2025
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Finding aid created by: Michele Combs
Date: 26 Feb 2025
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Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Pathé frères (France) |
| Title: | Women's Suffrage Speeches |
| Dates: | 1915 |
| Quantity: | 1 item |
| Abstract: | audiorecordings of two speeches in favor of women's suffrage, by Rabbi Stephen Wise and Gertrude Foster Brown |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives |
Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874-1949) was an an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader. He was a founding member of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage (1910) and the NAACP, and was an early member of the ACLU.
Gertrude Foster Brown (1867-1956) was a concert pianist, a member of the Carrie Chapman Catt's Women's Suffrage Party, active in the League of Women Voters, and was elected president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association in 1913.
Women's Suffrage Speeches consists of a single phonodisc containing two speeches in favor of giving women the right to vote, given in 1915. Side A contains a speech by Rabbi Stephen Wise titled "Woman and Democracy." Side B contains a speech by Gertrude Foster Brown titled "Why Women Want the Vote."
Single item.
Access Restrictions:
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advance notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Access to audiovisual material requires advance notice to produce a use copy.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
WNYC's New York Public Radio Archives and Preservation division has a digitized copy of both Side A (Wise's speech) and Side B (Brown's speech) of this disc.
Persons
Brown, Gertrude Foster, 1867-1956.
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.
Corporate Bodies
Pathé frères (France)
Subjects
Reform Judaism -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Suffragists -- United States.
Women -- Suffrage.
Women's rights -- United States.
Genres and Forms
Phonograph records.
Sound recordings.
Speeches (compositions)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Women's Suffrage Speeches,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2024.
Recordings
| Recordings | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Two speeches on women's suffrage [1915] | ||||||||||
| Side A: Rabbi Stephen Wise, "Woman and Democracy" Side B: Gertrude Foster Brown, "Why Women Want the Vote" |
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