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#001 The Worlds Congress Auxiliary Scrapbook, p. 0124
and continued its sessions through eight days, adjourning April 1, 1888. Fifty-
one national organizations of women and seven different countries were repre-
sented in this meeting.
The Council seemed too important to the women participating in its delib-
erations to permit of its being adjourned and desolved without taking measures
toward a permanent organization of the National and International movements
represented in it. Accordingly on the 31st of March, 1888, the National
Council of Women of the United States and the International Council of
Women were both formally organized.
The International Council of Women was officered as follows:
President, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, England.
Vice-President, Clara Barton, United States.
Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, United States.
Recording Secretary, Kirstine Frederiksen, Denmark.
Treasurer, Isabelle Bogelot, France.
By the terms of the Constitution, meetings of the International Council
were to be held quinquennially, and the first was set for five years from its
organization, viz., the spring of 1893. It was informally agreed that the first
meeting of the International Council should be convened in London, unless
prior to the date fixed for it, circumstances should render it advisable to convene
it elsewhere.
In July, 1889, in response to an invitation of the progressive women of
France, an International Congress of Women was convened in Paris, under
the auspices of the French Government.
The French leaders were generous in repeatedly ascribing the courageous
impulse under which they had acted to the Council held in Washington the
preceding year. Before its adjournment, that Congress, composed of dele-
gates representing over one hundred societies and twenty-six different nation-
alities, by a unanimous vote, passed a resolution approving the permanent
International Council of Women, the organization of which had been effected
in Washington the preceding year, and pledging its members to work for the
establishment of National Councils in their respective countries, and for the
dissemination of information concerning the International Council and its
objects.
So soon as the United States Government had, through Congress, made
provision for celebrating the discovery of America by the World's Columbian
Exposition--and had fixed the time and place for such Exposition, the Amer-
Object Description
| Title | World's Congress Auxiliary Scrapbook |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA | Religion |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCAS |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
Description
| Title | 0124 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA | Religion |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCAS |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
| Transcript | #001 The Worlds Congress Auxiliary Scrapbook, p. 0124 and continued its sessions through eight days, adjourning April 1, 1888. Fifty- one national organizations of women and seven different countries were repre- sented in this meeting. The Council seemed too important to the women participating in its delib- erations to permit of its being adjourned and desolved without taking measures toward a permanent organization of the National and International movements represented in it. Accordingly on the 31st of March, 1888, the National Council of Women of the United States and the International Council of Women were both formally organized. The International Council of Women was officered as follows: President, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, England. Vice-President, Clara Barton, United States. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, United States. Recording Secretary, Kirstine Frederiksen, Denmark. Treasurer, Isabelle Bogelot, France. By the terms of the Constitution, meetings of the International Council were to be held quinquennially, and the first was set for five years from its organization, viz., the spring of 1893. It was informally agreed that the first meeting of the International Council should be convened in London, unless prior to the date fixed for it, circumstances should render it advisable to convene it elsewhere. In July, 1889, in response to an invitation of the progressive women of France, an International Congress of Women was convened in Paris, under the auspices of the French Government. The French leaders were generous in repeatedly ascribing the courageous impulse under which they had acted to the Council held in Washington the preceding year. Before its adjournment, that Congress, composed of dele- gates representing over one hundred societies and twenty-six different nation- alities, by a unanimous vote, passed a resolution approving the permanent International Council of Women, the organization of which had been effected in Washington the preceding year, and pledging its members to work for the establishment of National Councils in their respective countries, and for the dissemination of information concerning the International Council and its objects. So soon as the United States Government had, through Congress, made provision for celebrating the discovery of America by the World's Columbian Exposition--and had fixed the time and place for such Exposition, the Amer- |
