xt7sbc3svg22 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7sbc3svg22/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7sbc3svg22/data/pa46m4.dao.xml unknown 1916-1933, undated 0.25 Cubic Feet 37 items Silver print Silver print Silver print Silver print Silver print Silver print Silver print POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP POP/DOP collections pa46m4 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Laura Clay photographs Temperance. Women's rights -- United States -- History. Women -- Suffrage -- United States. Women -- Suffrage -- Kentucky. Women -- Political activity -- Kentucky. Women -- Kentucky -- Societies and clubs Laura Clay photographs text Laura Clay photographs 1916 1916-1933, undated 2019 true xt7sbc3svg22 collection true pa46m4 pa46m4 Guide to the Laura Clay photographs, 1916-1933, undated  pa46m4 Processed by: Staff, Lindy Melvin, Jason Flahardy University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center Special Collections Research Center University of Kentucky Libraries Margaret I. King Library Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039 URL:  This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on  2019-10-18 15:17:06 -0400 . Description is in English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard 
   
     
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       University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 
     
     Laura Clay photographs 
     pa46m4 
     
       0.25 Cubic Feet 
       37 items 
     
     1916-1933, undated 
   
   
     Biographical note 
 Laura Clay, daughter of emancipationist Cassius M. Clay and his first wife, Mary Jane Warfield Clay, was born at the family estate, White Hall, in 1849. As a result of her parents' divorce and the inequitable property settlement which followed, Clay devoted herself to improving  the unworthy position of women  as a suffragist and social reformer. She was a founder of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and the organization's first president. She was recognized as a national leader in the women's suffrage movement and served as an officer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. However, because she wished suffrage to be granted at the state level, she left the ranks of the national movement as the nineteenth amendment was about to be ratified. She continued to be active in the cause of women's rights after 1920, and ran unsuccessfully for the Kentucky Senate in 1923. Clay also worked for the temperance movement, the Democratic Party, and her Episcopal church. She died at age 92 in 1941.    
   
     Scope and Contents 
 The Laura Clay photographs (dated 1916-1933, undated; 0.25 cubic feet; 37 items) consists of photographs depicting Laura Clay, subjects relating to her family history, and her career as a suffragist. Most of the collection is comprised of bromide DOP/POP snapshots documenting a suffragist meeting, stored in an album that has deteriorated over time and damaged the images. The album has been disassembled for preservation purposes. Also included in the collection is a photograph of Governor Ruby Laffoon handing a gavel to Laura Clay, temporary chairperson of the Kentucky Convention to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. Handwritten on the back of the mounting is the speech that Laura Clay gave that day. Also included is a group portrait of women from the Kentucky Equal Rights League at the Democratic National Convention, 1916.    
   
     Preferred Citation 
 pa46m4: [identification of item], Laura Clay photographs, 1916-1933, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Conditions Governing Access 
 Collection is open to researchers by appointment.  Box 2, containing the photograph album, is restricted due to preservation concerns.    
   
     Conditions Governing Use 
 The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Related Materials 
 46m4, Laura Clay papers, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Immediate Source of Acquisition 
 Gift, 1946 and 2015    
   
     Arrangement 
 Collection is arranged by subject.    
   
     Temperance. 
     Women's rights -- United States -- History. 
     Women -- Suffrage -- United States. 
     Women -- Suffrage -- Kentucky. 
     Women -- Political activity -- Kentucky. 
     Women -- Kentucky -- Societies and clubs 
     Woman's Club of Central Kentucky 
     Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 
     Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 
     Democratic Party (U.S.) 
     Clay, Laura, 1849-1941 
     Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 
     Upton, Harriett Taylor 
     Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 
     League of Women Voters (U.S.) 
     Kentucky Equal Rights Association 
   
   Portrait Series I. 1916-1933, undated Portrait of Laura Clay, handwritten note at bottom:  Your friend Laura Clay undated Silver print 1 1 Laura Clay, Lexington, Kentucky , taken by Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis undated 1 2 Laura Clay and group marching for the Madison, Fayette, and Franklin Kentucky Equal Rights Association, at Democratic National Convention in St. Louis circa 1916 Silver print 1 3 Unknown young man in military dress undated 1 4 Susan B. Anthony undated 1 5 Governor Laffoon handing gavel to Laura Clay as Temporary Chairman of the Kentucky Convention to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. Miss Clay's acceptance address is written on the back of the photograph 1933 November 7 Silver print 1 6 Copy photograph of painted portrait of Laura Clay undated Silver print 3 25 Portrait of unknown woman in long dress, photograph by W.R. Phipps undated 3 26 Portrait of Mary J. W. Clay in the  presentation dress undated 3 27 Warfield Clay undated 3 28 Hands of a statue undated 3 29 Josephine Henry undated 3 30 Unknown man, photograph by J.P. Sharman undated 3 31 Copy portrait of Cassius Marcellus Clay from a book undated Silver print 3 34 Unknown man with a fur hat, photograph by W.W. Washburn undated 3 35 James Bennett undated 3 36 Portrait of Mary Barr Clay undated 3 37 Architecture Series II. 1932, undated Building on N. Mill Street, east side, where Cassius Clay ran his anti-slavery paper  The True American , Lexington, KY undated Silver print 3 32 White Hall, home of Cassius Clay, Richmond, KY 1932 Silver print 3 33 Album Series III. undated Conditions Governing Access Album is restricted due to fragility. Use digital images. Handwritten title on album page:  National Headquarters undated POP/DOP 2 7 Handwritten title on album page:  Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Susan B. Anthony undated POP/DOP 2 8 Handwritten title on album page:  The Committee in Repose undated POP/DOP 2 9 Handwritten title on album page:  Miss Lucy Anthony and Miss Kate Gordon undated POP/DOP 2 10 Handwritten title on album page:  Characteristic Facial Expressions undated POP/DOP 2 11 Handwritten title on album page:  Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of Boston undated POP/DOP 2 12 Handwritten title on album page:  Miss Clay undated POP/DOP 2 13 Handwritten title on album page:  The Doxology undated POP/DOP 2 14 Handwritten title on album page:  Miss Upton and Dr. Eaton undated POP/DOP 2 15 Handwritten title on album page:  Miss Gordon, Miss Clay, Miss Blackwell and Dr. Eaton // Miss Upton, Aunt Susan, Miss Sharr and Mrs. Catt undated POP/DOP 2 16 Handwritten title on album page:  A Critical Moment // Note the Expression of Suspense undated POP/DOP 2 17 Handwritten title on album page:  On thier (sic) way to the Meeting undated POP/DOP 2 18 Handwritten title on album page:  How They Felt When it was over undated POP/DOP 2 19 Handwritten title on album page:  The Judge undated POP/DOP 2 20 Handwritten title on album page:  The 'House' undated POP/DOP 2 21 Handwritten title on album page:  Miss Mary Melton, The Power Behind the Throne undated POP/DOP 2 22 Handwritten title on album page:  Suffrage Stokers undated POP/DOP 2 23 Handwritten title on album page:  Saints of the Cabbage Patch undated POP/DOP 2 24