Guide to Women's Rights Scrapbooks

Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Guide to Women's Rights Scrapbooks, ca. 1868-1880

Collection number: Mss 260

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara
Processed by:
D. Tambo
Date Completed:
Mar. 2, 2010
Encoded by:
A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Women's Rights Scrapbooks
Dates: ca. 1868-1880
Collection number: Mss 260
Collection Size: 0.6 linear feet (2 pamphlet boxes)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains volumes 1, 3 and 4 of a set of scrapbooks assembled by an unidentified San Francisco area woman, with mounted clippings pertaining to issues such as women's suffrage, property rights, education, marriage and divorce, women in professions such as medicine and law, and women in other cultures.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Women's Rights Scrapbooks. Mss 260. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 2009.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection contains volumes 1, 3 and 4 of a set of scrapbooks assembled by an unidentified San Francisco area woman, with mounted clippings pertaining to issues such as women's suffrage, property rights, education, marriage and divorce, women in professions such as medicine and law, and women in other cultures. Some clippings are dated but sources generally are not indicated.
Titles of articles include: "Women in Turkey," "Our Women Workers," "Female Suffrage Refused," "Too Much Marrying," "Woman Suffrage in England," "Homes, not Votes," "Lady School Commissioners," "Age for Legal Marriages," "Why Women Should Read," and "Reform in Divorce Law."
There is no container list for this collection.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Women's rights--United States.