Belva Lockwood Manuscript Collection

Fenimore Art Museum

The New Woman, a speech draft - Image Source

Collection Facts

Extent:

Dates of Original:

c. 1879 - 1904

Historical Context

Belva Ann Lockwood (1830–1917), a noted lawyer and a National Equal Rights presidential candidate, was a native of the Town of Royalton, Niagara County, New York. She ran for president of the United States in the election of 1884, becoming the first woman to run a full-scale presidential campaign.

Scope of Collection

The Belva Lockwood Manuscript Collection contains original drafts of Lockwood’s speeches. Manuscript pages are accompanied by full-text transcriptions. Lecture titles illuminate the author’s thoughts on topics like: “The New Woman,” “Equal Rights,” “Suffrage,” “On Marriage” and “Women in Professions.”

Collection Image from the National Portrait Gallery: http://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:npg_NPG.80.298.

Browse within this collection

By Subject:

Women -- Suffrage

Women's rights

Creator Attribution:

Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917.

Additional Information

Finding Aid URL:

http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/library/special_collections/?page_id=104

Scope and Content Source:

Lockwood's grandson DeForest L. Ormes presented this collection of manuscripts to Mrs. Julia Hull Winner of Gasport, N.Y. while she was writing a biography of Lockwood. "Belva A. Lockwood" was published by the Niagara County Historical Association in 1969, and in 1971, Mrs. Winner donated the collection to the Fenimore Art Museum Research Library (previously known as New York State Historical Association)"