The Susan B Anthony Memorial Committee (fl. 1937-1949) was established to help organise the creation of memorials to the American Suffragist. It appears to have operated between around 1937 and 1949, mainly working in California. It succeeded in having a giant tree named after her in the Sequoia National Park after an application to Interior Department of the United States government. It also resulted in a bequest of 500 volumes being bequeathed to the Huntingdon Library in California, that formed the nucleus of the significant women's studies collection that was later formed. In 1937, its committee consisted of Mrs Robert Adamson as the national Chair, Sue Brobst as the Californian Chair and Una R Winter as the vice-Chair of the region. Una Winter appears to have been responsible for the collation of the background information for the request.
The archive consists of typescript copies of 14 letters by Anthony, typescript copies of newspaper articles by her, and press cuttings, list of public memorials created up until 1949 and typescript background documents including typescript articles on and manuscript note by sculptor Adelaide Johnston, programmes. The records consist of 3 folders, containing loose documents copied by the Susan B Anthony Memorial Committee of California.
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
Received in the Library on 7 Jan 1948 [probably deposited by the Susan B Anthony Memorial Committee - check Fawcett Library Accession Registers]
The Women's Library also holds some portrait photographs of Susan B Anthony and some correspondence between her and suffrage campaigners such as Millicent Fawcett. There are memorial items, such as photographs of the marble bust and sequoia tree memorial, a 'Susan B Anthony' suffrage banner (TWL.1998.19) and the design for the banner (2ASL/11/61).
The Susan B Anthony Letters Collection is held at Rochester Public Library, Local History Division, Manuscript Collection.
The Susan B Anthony House, Rochester, New York is a permanent memorial to her (see
The United States National Archives holds papers on her legal trial.
Fawcett Library Catalogue
1A: Copies of 14 letters, selected at random by the Memorial Committee. 1896-1905 14 items:
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony (second cousin), Coleta Illinois;
* Susan B Anthony to Eliza Wadsworth (aunt), Coleta Illinois;
* Susan B Anthony to Mrs whitfield, Rapid City, South Dakota;
* Susan B Anthony to Francis Willard, President WCTU, Chicago, Illinois;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 30 Mar 1896 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 26 Apr 1898 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 10 Apr 1898 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 28 Mar 1900 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 26 Jul 1900 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 25 Jun 1902 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Circular Letter 1903;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 10 Sep 1904 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 29 Oct 1904 Los Angeles, California;
* Susan B Anthony to Jessie Anthony 10 Dec 1905 Los Angeles, California [This was one of the last letters she wrote before she died 13 Mar 1906].
1B: Newspaper articles commissioned by the McClure Syndicate in 1901 with an introduction by Ida Husted Harper ('How They Came to be Written']. 4 items. As at 1949 these articles had only been published in the newspapers, they had not been republished in books.
* What I Would Have Done With a Bad Husband (5p);
* Perfect Marriages (4p);
* Educating Husbands (3p);
* The Wrongs of Man (4p).
[* The Ideal Husband, was also commissioned but a copy is not present].
The reminiscences were collected by the Memorial Committee over a 10 year period, with many personal details and insights into Anthony's character being included. The reminiscences are mainly typescript.
* Extract from a magazine article written in 1906 by Ida Husted Harper (1p);
* Mrs Augusta Urquhart (3p);
* Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton (11p);
* Maude Anthony Koehler (her niece) (6p);
* Ernest Dawson (1p);
* Sadie Roberts Dawson (1p);
* Jennie B Newby (1p);
* Margaret A Shanks (1p);
* Mrs Campbell (1p);
* Emily H Bright (1p);
* Dr A A Whitfield (2p);
* Susan B Anthony Anecdotes (1p).
14 memorials were established (as at 1949):
* SBA Collection in Library of Congress, Washington DC;
* Rochester New York Memorials;
* Smithsonian Institution Collection, Washington DC;
* Marble bust (now in Susan B Anthony Memorial, Rochester New York);
* Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania) Scholarships;
* Los Angeles California Museum Collection (in 1949 these were in the reserve collection, not on display);
* Susan B Anthony commemorative postage stamp;
* Portraits, Washington DC;
* Memorial tree, Sequoia National Park, California;
* Los Angeles Public Library Memorial Collection;
* Susan B Anthony Memorial Day in Public Schools (observed only occasionally)
* Memorial Plaque, Blaboa Park, San Diego, California;
* Susan B Anthony Memorial inc. Rochester New York;
* The Three Pioneers Marble Monument Washington DC.
The folder contains typescript details for five of these memorials (includes some press cuttings and published guides)
* SBA Collection in Library of Congress, Washington DC;
* Rochester New York Memorials;
* Memorial tree, Sequoia National Park, California;
* Memorial Plaque, Blaboa Park, San Diego, California;
* The Three Pioneers Marble Monument Washington DC