What material has been returned?
After nearly 63 years, five meters of archives, photographs and other documentary material were returned to the IIAV. All of this material had been collected between 1935 and 1940 by the International Archive for the Women’s Movement, principally by Rosa Manus. The documents include personal archives (e.g. Aletta Jacobs, Rosa Manus and Betsy Bakker-Nort) as well as organizational archives (e.g. Arbeid Adelt [Nobility in Labour] and the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Werkende Vrouwen [the Dutch Association of Working Women]).
The returned collection includes hundreds of photographs of congresses, marches and parades, meetings and people. This documentary material is organized according to the system that then used by the Archives: an alphabetical system for biographical clippings and a numeric system for objects. There are also numerous brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, reports from congresses and issues of magazines.
Below you'll find ten of the nearly 28,000 objects and documents that have been returned. They can all be viewed at the IIAV. Visitors are welcome.
Top of this page: A photograph of Charaoui Pacha, an Egyptian and member of the board of directors of the International Alliance of Women (IAW). The photo was personal property of Rosa Manus. In 1939 and the beginning of 1940, she donated her books and well-organized archive to the IAV because she thought it would be safer there. (from fond 1475-1-44)
Fragment of a carbon copy of a letter which Rosa Manus (1881-1943) wrote to Clara Hyde, secretary to Carrie Chapman Catt, on 20 May 1930. The letter makes clear that Rosa Manus was already planning to establish a feminist library. (from fond 1475-1-3)
Part of the first page of the album that Aletta Jacobs and Carrie Chapman Catt received from Hungarian feminists in Budapest in 1906. This visit was reported in the Hungarian press. The album contains clippings about the visit, including English translations. (from fond 1475-1-150)
A section of the visa, issued on 6 May 1915, to Aletta Jacobs to travel in Germany and the country then known as Austria-Hungary. (from fond 1475-1-150)
The IAV’s own archives from the time of its founding in 1935 were also stolen. The picture left shows a memorandum (in English) with the signatures of the board of directors, probably from 1939. (from fond 1475-1-8)
The recovered material also includes hundreds of photographs. Some well known and others less so, like the one on your right of Rosa Manus and Mia Boissevain, two women who together conceived and planned the Exhibition ‘The Woman 1813- 1913’. (from fond 1475-1-17)
A photograph of a procession of automobiles organized by the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Staatsburgeressen (Dutch Association of Women Citizens) in September 1928. Second from right is Aletta Jacobs, Rosa Manus is standing in the door. (Fond 1475-1-50)
Two examples of the IAV’s biographical clipping system before 1940. (from fond 1475-1-114)
On 6 February 1932, the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women’s International Organizations presented 9 million signatures at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. Rosa Manus’ archives contain many items from this committee, which had been established on 5 September 1931. She herself had been secretary and later vice-president of the committee. On your left you can see one of the many photographs from the signature drive in 1932. (Fond 1475-1-119)
Below you'll find ten of the nearly 28,000 objects and documents that have been returned. They can all be viewed at the IIAV. Visitors are welcome.
Top of this page: A photograph of Charaoui Pacha, an Egyptian and member of the board of directors of the International Alliance of Women (IAW). The photo was personal property of Rosa Manus. In 1939 and the beginning of 1940, she donated her books and well-organized archive to the IAV because she thought it would be safer there. (from fond 1475-1-44)Fragment of a carbon copy of a letter which Rosa Manus (1881-1943) wrote to Clara Hyde, secretary to Carrie Chapman Catt, on 20 May 1930. The letter makes clear that Rosa Manus was already planning to establish a feminist library. (from fond 1475-1-3)
Part of the first page of the album that Aletta Jacobs and Carrie Chapman Catt received from Hungarian feminists in Budapest in 1906. This visit was reported in the Hungarian press. The album contains clippings about the visit, including English translations. (from fond 1475-1-150)
A section of the visa, issued on 6 May 1915, to Aletta Jacobs to travel in Germany and the country then known as Austria-Hungary. (from fond 1475-1-150)
The IAV’s own archives from the time of its founding in 1935 were also stolen. The picture left shows a memorandum (in English) with the signatures of the board of directors, probably from 1939. (from fond 1475-1-8)
The recovered material also includes hundreds of photographs. Some well known and others less so, like the one on your right of Rosa Manus and Mia Boissevain, two women who together conceived and planned the Exhibition ‘The Woman 1813- 1913’. (from fond 1475-1-17)A photograph of a procession of automobiles organized by the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Staatsburgeressen (Dutch Association of Women Citizens) in September 1928. Second from right is Aletta Jacobs, Rosa Manus is standing in the door. (Fond 1475-1-50)
Two examples of the IAV’s biographical clipping system before 1940. (from fond 1475-1-114)On 6 February 1932, the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women’s International Organizations presented 9 million signatures at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. Rosa Manus’ archives contain many items from this committee, which had been established on 5 September 1931. She herself had been secretary and later vice-president of the committee. On your left you can see one of the many photographs from the signature drive in 1932. (Fond 1475-1-119)