were honored guests at the National Suffrage Conven- 

 tion then in session in Washington where they also 

 attended two congressional hearings on suffrage and 

 were received by President Theodore Roosevelt at the 

 White House. ^* Mrs. Catt was given a silver tray ^^ 

 inscribed : 



To Carrie Chapman Catt from the foreign delegates to the 

 First International .Suffrage Conference, Washington, D. C, 

 Feb. 12-18, 1902. 



The back of the tray is marked "Gait & Bro. Sterling, 

 386." The Gait silver firm is in Washington, D.C. 



The campaign for the first referendum in the state of 

 New York on woman suffrage was considered to be 

 the most decisive of all the state fights. New York 

 was divided into 12 campaign districts working under 

 Mrs. Catt. The campaign was most vigorously waged, 

 but the referendum was defeated.'^ After the New 

 York catnpaign Mrs. Catt received a silver gilt tray ^' 

 inscribed: 



Honorable Carrie Chapman Catt from Katherine Howard 

 Notman 



Eleventh Assembly District Campaign Chairman, 191 5 

 The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall 

 not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any 

 state on account of se.\. 



The tray is marked on the reverse "Tiffany and Co., 

 18154, Makers 811, Sterling Silver, 925/1000/M." 



Mrs. Catt had started the suffrage movement in the 

 Philippine Islands when she visited there in 1912 and 

 organized the first suffrage club in Manila. In 1937 

 the Philippine legislature submitted the question of 



36 Mary Gray Peck, Carrie Chapman Call (New York: H. \V. 

 Wilson Co., 1944), pp. 121-122. 



3' Gift of National American Woman Suffrage Association 

 (ace. 147840, cat. 42083), Division of Political History, USNM. 



38 Peck, op. cit., pp. 220-232. 



39 Gift of National American Woman Suffrage Association 

 (ace. 147840, cat. 42084), Division of Political History, USNM. 



Figure 20. — The Vanderbilt Cup, an annual award 

 for automobile races in the early 20th century. 

 Gift of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. In Division of 

 Transportation. (Ace. 131820, cat. 310894; 



Smithsonian photo 45992-B.) 



votes for women to the women of the Islands them- 

 selves. The campaign committee working out of 

 Manila sent native women campaigners throughout 

 the Islands to be sure all races and religions were 

 represented in the vote. Mrs. Catt raised money in 

 this country and sent it to the campaign committee 

 to help with the fight.*" Over half a million Philip- 

 pine women voted favorably on the question, and 

 several months later Mrs. Catt was presented with a 

 silver plaque, mounted on native woods, that is now 

 in the Museum's collection.*' It is inscribed: 



J" Peck, op. cit., pp. 457-458. 



" Gift of National American Woman Suffrage Association 

 (ace. 147840, cat. 42085), Division of Political History, USNM. 



Figure 19. — Belt given to H. W. Hicham as the winner of a 6-day bicycle race at Glasgow, 

 Scotland. Gift of Mr. H. W. Higham. In Division of Transportation. (Ace. 168449, cat. 

 313867; Smithsonian photo 45992-F.) 



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