Primary Sources

Where and how to find Carrie Chapman Catt primary sources:

The Library of Congress has put Catt's two books on-line so they are now accessible via the World Wide Web. It's possible the Library of Congress will add more sources on-line, so please check back.
 

New York: C. Scribner and Sons, 1923.

This book is difficult to find at Iowa State's library.  One copy is in the Special Collections/Archives Department and they are only open limited hours.  The other copy is overdue and charged.

National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., 1917.
This book is on microfilm (History of Woman collection) and can be checked out of the Microforms Center at Iowa State's Library. Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 884 no.7280.

A copy of this book is in the Special Collections/Archives as well at Iowa State.  The ISU Catt Center for Women and Politics (309 Catt Hall) distributes Chapter 6 as part of their packet of information about Catt.

       The Ballot and the Bullet
          The National America Woman Suffrage Association

       The papers of Carrie Chapman Catt <microform>. Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher:  Washington, D.C.  Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.  ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1413.C3 A3 1978.  This is an 18 reel collection.  The first reel contains a helpful finding index. Catt's speeches can be found in the Reels that have "Containers" 10, 12 and 13 (for an index of speeches and articles in this collection, click here.)  So if you are interested in looking specifically at Catt's speeches, ask the microfilm employee to get you the reels that have containers 10-13.

      The Woman Voter. Official organ of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City. New York: The Party, 1910-1917. Parks Library Microforms Center, Call Number: JK1880 W66x micro

     The Woman Citizen. New York, N.Y.: Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, 1917-1927. Parks Library General Collection Call Number: JK1880 .W84

     War and Peace Library Location. Located in ISU Parks Library Archives (Spec Coll)         Call Number: JX1937 .A11 C2w

     National American Woman Suffrage Association. Records, 1850-1960. Located in the ISU Parks Library Microforms Center, Call Number: JK1881 N38x, micro-

     Some of Catt's speeches and essays exist in the History of Women collection on microfilm at ISU.  To find these speeches, do an ISU ICAT search by author (Catt, Carrie Chapman).

          Here's a sampling:

Address of the president at the seventh Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance <microform> : Budapest, Hungary, June 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 1913. Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <S.l. : s.n., 1913?> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 949 no.9081

An address to the legislatures of the United States <microform> / Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <New York : National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1919> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9175

Carrie Chapman Catt<New York : Catt, between 1910 and 1920>ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9197

 Feminism and suffrage <microform> / Publisher: New York : National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., <1914?> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9198

How to work for suffrage in an election district or voting precinct <microform> / Publisher: New York : National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1917. ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9154
 
Kings, German and American <microform> / Publisher: <New York : National Woman Suffrage
Pub. Co., 1918?> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 884

International address <microform> : delivered by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the         International Woman Suffrage Alliance, at the congress in Amsterdam, June 15, 1908. Author: Catt,  Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <Warren, Ohio, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1912> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 949 no.9051

 The nation calls <microform> : an address to the Jubilee Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 24, 1919 / Publisher: <New York : National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1919>ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9176

Our real enemy <microform> Publisher: <New York : National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1918?> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9166

Papers, 1878-1981. Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, ISU PARKS LIBRARY Archives (Spec Coll) Call Number: RS 21/7/3

Political parties and women voters <microform> : address delivered by Carrie Chapman Catt to the Congress of the League of Women Voters, Chicago February 14, 1920. <S.l. : s.n.>, 1920.  ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9181

President's annual address delivered by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt <microform> : before the 34th annual convention  of the National-American Woman-Suffrage Association and the First International Woman-Suffrage Conference, held in Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, 1902. Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Hayworth Publishing House, <1902> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 947 no.8930

President's annual address delivered by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt <microform> : before the 36th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association held in Washington, D.C., February 11 to 17, 1904, inclusive. Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1904>

ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 947 no.8934

War aims <microform> / Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <New York : National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1917>ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 950 no.9155

War and Peace library. Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, ISU PARKS LIBRARY Archives (Spec Coll) Call Number: JX1937 .A11 C2w

Who can answer? Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <New York, National Association of  Manufacturers, 1939> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Archives (Spec Coll) Call Number: JX1953 .C294w

Why wars must cease, Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company, 1935. ISU PARKS LIBRARY Archives (Spec Coll) Call Number: JX1965

The woman voter's manual / Author: Forman, S. E. Publisher: New York : Century Co., 1918. ISU PARKS LIBRARY General Collection Call Number: JK271 F765w

Woman's century calendar <microform> / Publisher: New York : National American Woman Suffrage Association, <1899> ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 519 no.3955

The world movement for woman suffrage 1904 to 1911 <microform> : being the presidential address delivered at Stockholm to the sixth convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, on Tuesday, June 13, 1911 / Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman, Publisher: <London> : International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1911.ISU PARKS LIBRARY Microforms Center Call Number: HQ1121 H57x micro film reel 954 no.9498

There is also a small collection of Catt's speeches on reserve at the Ames Public Library. Warning:  Some of these speeches are unreadable in portions because they are faxed photocopies.

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