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Selina Solomons papers, circa 1867-1921.
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Selina Solomons papers, circa 1867-1921Creator/Contributor:
Solomons, Selina., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Votes-for-Women Club (San Francisco, Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Leslie Woman Suffrage CommissionCreator/Contributor:
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)Abstract:
Contains correspondence, ephemera, clippings, menus, programs, postcards, etc, mostly related to Selina Solomon's work on
the women's suffrage movement in California. Some of the correspondence is on the letterhead stationery of women's suffrage
movement organizations, such as Leslie Woman Suffrage Commision, Inc. and The National Women's Social and Political Action
Union (London, England). Includes ephemera from the California women's suffrage campaign of 1911 and the Votes-for-Women Club
of San Francisco. Includes an astrology chart drawn up by Solomons for her niece, Edith Josephine Solomons, an accompanying
typescript explanation of the chart, and two color copies of a Solomons family genealogical chart. Also contains a small
amount of materials related to piano concerts by Madame Jaffa, programs, etc.
Date:
1867 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSolomons, Selina -- Archives
Solomons, Selina -- Correspondence
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins -- 1860-1935 -- Correspondence
Harper, Ida Husted -- 1851-1931 -- Correspondence
Pankhurst, Emmeline -- 1858-1928 -- Correspondence
Votes-for-Women Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.
Women -- Suffrage -- California
Jewish women -- California -- San Francisco
Sephardim -- California -- San Francisco
Jews -- California -- San Francisco
Note:
Selina Solomons papers, circa 1867-1921, BANC MSS C-B 773, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Books transferred to the Print Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Selina Seixas Solomons (1862-1942) was from a distinguished Sephardic Jewish family in San Francisco, California. She was
active in the women's suffrage movement in California and founded an alternate suffragist organization, the Votes-for-Women
Club, aimed at working-class women such as shopgirls and clerks.
In English.
Type:
Menus.Ephemera.
Postcards.
Letterheads.
Genealogies.
Physical Description:
print
1 box, 1 oversize folder (0.25 linear feet)
Language:
English