[Two Broadsides]: Women in the World s Exposition of 1892. Important Meeting of the Woman s National Industrial League (September, 1889) [and] To The Hon. John B. Henderson, Chairman pro tempore of the International American Congress (November 18, 1889)

SMITH, Charlotte

Verlag: (Washington, D.C., 1889

Beschreibung

Two broadsides. Both are printed on gray paper (8½" x 12½") and (8½" x 12¼"). Three slight horizontal folds, a few tiny splits at the edges, both are near fine. Two unrecorded 1889 broadsides from Charlotte Odlum Smith, President of the Woman s National Industrial League of America, who was a formidable reformer and advocate for disadvantaged women and is now regarded as the foremost authority on women s working conditions. In the first broadside from September, Smith sets forth resolutions adopted at a meeting of the League held in Washington, DC on the third Thursday in September, 1889: "… we deem it expedient for the Women of America to organize themselves for the purpose of insisting on their right to have a distinct department in the Great Exposition set apart for them so as to afford them an opportunity to display an outline of what Woman has accomplished in the useful and ornamental industrial arts, as well as those of a scientific character … ." The League further resolves that a monument be erected in honor of Queen Isabella of Spain "employing an American or Spanish Woman as the artist" to design the monument. In the second broadside, Smith welcomes the delegates to the International American Congress meeting at Washington DC, and calls for "reciprocity between the Women of North and South America … in social, educational, and industrial pursuits … that can point out to womankind the road to self-supporting, self-sustaining occupations for women, that their interests may be identical and womanhood exalted in the Industrial World." Smith further argues that Pan-American women who "have occupations outside of the household," need to be organized together in business pursuits and calls on the delegates to the congress to recognize "women as a commercial factor, and as a class numerically superior to the male population, and to urge a closer commercial relationship and acquaintance between the women of the continent … ." Rare with OCLC locating no copies of either broadside. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 544646

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Two Broadsides]: Women in the World s ...

Verlag: (Washington, D.C.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1889

Zustand: Near Fine