Backwards in High Heels: Resources
Resources
[Unidentified women’s group gathers at the Capitol], circa 1910, C10563, Chalberg Collection of Prints and Negatives.
Many social groups existed for women in the late 19th century. By the turn of the 20th century, more and more women’s groups started taking on political issues.
The following resources from the Austin History Center Collections were used for this exhibit and contain additional materials related to the history of women in politics. They can be viewed on site in the Reading Room.
Austin FilesThe Austin Files have both textual and photographic components. The text files contain clippings, brochures, press releases, campaign materials, oral history transcripts and other printed ephemera. The photograph files contain photographs. Some subjects have both text and photograph files but some only have one or the other. A8500(13) Austin -- History -- Archives War C4030 City Council P5300 Political Parties (9) Travis County Democratic Women's Committee (17) Austin Republican Women's Club (19) Texas Federation of Republican Women T0750 Temperence Movement V3500(2) Voters and Voting -- League of Women Voters W4800 Women -- Societies and Clubs (5) Austin Federation of Women's Clubs (14) Texas Federation of Women's Clubs W4900 Women -- Suffrage W5000 Women (contains many pertinent subcategories) (22) Texas Women's Political Caucus
Austin Files -- BiographyAmes, Jessie Daniel Bickler, Jacob, 1849-1902 -- Bickler, Martha Blanton, Annie Webb Bode, Mary Jane Briscoe, Dolph, Jr. -- Briscoe, Janey Slaughter Clements, WIlliam Perry, Jr. -- Clements, Rita Crocker Bass Cunningham, Minnie Fisher Delco, Exalton A., Jr. -- Delco, Wilhelmina Eberly, Angelina Belle Peyton Ferguson, James Edward -- Ferguson, Miriam A. Fisher, Rebecca Jane Gilleland, 1831-1926 Guerrero, Lena Himmelblau, Betty Hofmann, Otto J. -- Hofmann, Margret Johnson, Lyndon Baines -- Johnson, Lady Bird Jordan, Barbara Keeton, Carole Limberg, Emilie Linn, Emma Lou Long, Emma Jackson McCallum, Jane Yelvington McDaniel, Myra Moody, Daniel J. -- Moody, Mildred Paxton Pease, Elisha Marshall -- Pease, Lucadia Christiana Niles Richards, Ann Willis Rodriguez-Mendoza, Amalia Sevier, Henry Hulme -- Sevier, Clara Driscoll Shipman, Sally Weddington, Sarah Ragle West, Elizabeth Howard White, Mark -- White, Linda Gale
Books
Archival CollectionsAR.A.001. Pease-Graham-Niles Papers AR.A.002. Rebecca Jane Fisher Papers AR.E.004. Jane Yelvington Legette McCallum Papers AR.O.017. Austin (Tex.) City Council. Margret Hofmann Records AR.P.002. Austin (Tex.). Mayor's Office. Carole Keeton McClellan Papers AR.S.012. Mary Jane Bode Papers AR.Y.005. Bickler Papers AR.Z.036. Austin (Tex.). City Council. Sally Shipman Records AR.1991.010. Mildred Paxton Moody Papers AR.1994.093. Austin Area League of Women Voters Records AR.1995.002. Von Rosenberg Family Papers AR.2002.025. Amalia Rodriguez-Mendoza Papers AR.2006.013. Emilie Limberg Papers AR.2010.012. Austin Women's History Network Records AR.2011.005. Stuart and Emma Long Papers AR.2012.034. Margret Hofmann Papers
Photography CollectionsThe Hubert Jones Glass Plate Collection contains many photographs of sites and scenes from life in early Austin as well as many portraits, mostly unidentified, of women. The Austin American-Statesman Negative Collection documents many news-worthy events, including many political scenes and political players. The negatives at the AHC span 1958-1982. Neal Douglass was the first photojournalist for the Austin American-Statesman and then ran his own photography business in the mid-twentieth century, often photographing prominent people and politicians. Bill Malone was photographer for the State Legislature from the 1960s through the early 1990s and his Collection of negatives includes many politicians. Consult the Photography Archivist for access to this collection. ArtifactsThe Artifacts Collection contains many buttons, bumper stickers, and similar campaign materials. Consult the staff to access these items.
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[Petri Family Portrait], circa 1890s, J125, Hubert Jones Glass Plate Collection. In the 19th century women’s lives were typically focused on their families. This portrait exemplifies that idea, as Clara Mossler Petri is surrounded by her children, Louisa Antoinette, Arthur Otto, and Charles Hubert Junior.
[Group of women gathered for a convention in Houston], 1911, PICA 16634. The convention that these women are attending is unidentified. It may have been a social gathering but might also have been a political rally, as many of the women are wearing lapel pins and ribbons.
[Women stenographers of the 35th Legislature], 1917, PICA 23540, Walter E. Long Collection. In the early 20th century, women rarely held elected office but increasingly had jobs in behind-the-scenes positions. This group portrait depicts the women who were the stenographers for the 35th Legislative session.
That Texas Legislative Service Gang, May 25, 1937, PICA 19229. The women in this portrait presumably were secretaries and administrative assistants at the Capitol, as they are posing with telephones, typewriters, and reports.
Equal Rights for Women Senate Hearing, February 24, 1959, AS-59-21912-01, Austin American-Statesman Negative Collection. Dallas Attorney Betty Roberts argues at a Texas Senate committee hearing for Equal Rights for Women in front of Senators Abraham Kazen, Wardlow Lane, Jimmy Phillips, and Jep Fuller.
[Re-enactment of women registering to vote], June 1987, AR.2010.012(002). Austin Women’s History Network Records. Sixty-nine years after Texas women won the right to vote, local women of the Texas Women’s History Network commemorated the event by re-enacting the historic photograph of women registering to vote for the first time in Travis County. |
Other Resources
The Women's Resource Guide has many more sources of information relating to women in the AHC collections.
The Texas Historical Association's Handbook of Texas Online has many encyclopedic articles about prominent Texans, inlucding many of the women in the exhibit, and events in Texas history.
Were there women that should have been included in this exhibit that we left out? Perhaps we did not have enough archival materials or photographs in our collections to be able to include them. We rely on donations to build our collections. If you have materials you would like to donate, see our donations page for information about making contributions to our collections.