#herownright

The Library Company is pleased to announce the pilot website for "In Her Own Right: Women Asserting Their Civil Rights, 1820-1920", including the Library Company’s Cassey and Dickerson albums, is now live. A pilot project executed by members of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), with funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the site showcases Philadelphia-area collections highlighting women’s struggle leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment.

http://inherownright.org/

 View the digitized Cassey album here: https://goo.gl/oLPZjf

Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839) was a wealthy Quaker and prominent Philadelphian. While she is renowned for her historical musings, especially her annotations on the Penn-Logan correspondence, she is best known for the seventeen volumes that make up her diary. Her writing provides a window into post-Revolutionary America, and highlights the political events and day-to-day happenings of domestic life. Deborah was considered by her friends as the epitome of the Revolutionary mother, and was an antiquarian who accumulated historical artifacts and books. Some of the clippings and antique graphics she collected were inlaid into her diary, and are featured below. The diary has been digitized as part of the In Her Own Right Project, which highlights primary source material related to women thinkers, abolitionists, and suffragists, leading up to the nineteenth amendment.