University of Wyoming American Heritage Center
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Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882-1980
Caroline Lexow Babcock papers
1898-1962
1.00 cubic ft. (1 box)
Caroline Lexow Babcock (1882-1980) was an American pacifist and suffragist. This collection contains books, publications, correspondence, and pamphlets related to Babcock’s work in women’s suffrage groups, as well as anti-war and pacifist groups.
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Biography of Caroline Lexow Babcock
Caroline Lexow Babcock (1882-1980) was an American pacifist and suffragist. Born in New York in February 1882, she graduated from Barnard College in 1904 and went
on to become a full-time suffragist. She served as executive secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch at the Women’s Political Union and held leadership roles in the College Equal
Suffrage League of New York. In 1921, she co-founded the Women’s Peace Union after departing the Women’s Peace Society, and that same year chaired a women’s peace march in New
York City. Babcock co-authored a proposed constitutional amendment to remove war powers from Congress and later served on the Executive Committee and board of the Birth Control
Federation of America. She also worked with Alice Paul to advance the Equal Rights Amendment, the fate of which would occupy the rest of her life. Caroline Lexow Babcock died in
1980, at the age of 98, still wearing a button supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.
Scope and Content
This collection contains books, publications, correspondence, and pamphlets related to Babcock’s work in women’s suffrage groups, as well as anti-war and pacifist groups.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes,
and the collection is open to the public.
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Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection
Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
This material was received from Caroline Lexow Babcock in January 1962.
This collection was processed by Brittany Heye in December 2025.
Caroline Lexow Babcock and Olive E. Hurlburt Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Harriot Stanton Blatch Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries.
Women's Peace Union records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
Access Terms
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Women’s Peace Union.
Women’s Political Union of New Jersey.
War Resisters League.
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors.
National Council Against Conscription (U.S.)
Suffrage.
Suffragists.
Women -- Suffrage.
First-wave feminism.
Second-wave feminism.
Women -- Social conditions.
War resistance movements.
Conscientious objection.
Peace movements.
Nyack (N.Y.)
New York City (N.Y.)
Blairstown (N.J.)
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Politics, Government, and Law
Civil Rights
Clubs and Societies
Women
1Book - Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (hardcover)undated
1Book - Concerning Children by Charlotte Perkis Gilman (hardcover)1900
1Book - On Liberty: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill (hardcover)1898
1Book - Parliamentary Usage by Emma A. Fox (hardcover)1943
1Book - The Struggle for Power in Moslem Asia by E. Alexander Powell (hardcover)1923
1Book - Time To Speak Up: A Speaker's Handbook for Women by Jessie Haver Butler (hardcover)1946
1Book - Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (hardcover)1901
1Book - Vocations for The Trained Woman by Eleanor Martin and Margaret A. Post (hardcover)1914
1Book - The Winning of the Frist Bill of Rights for American Women by Mabel Raef Putnam (hardcover)1924
1Book - Woman and New York Law edited by George James Bayles (hardcover)1911
1Book - Your Vote and How to Use It by Mrs. Raymond Brown (hardcover)1918
1Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors material 1942-1949, 1960-1961, undated
1"Conscription News" material 1945-1946, undated
1"Conscription News" publication from the National Council Against Conscription 1945-1948
1Fellowship of Reconciliation material 1947, 1955,1961, undated
1Friends Peace Committee material 1931, 1944, undated
1"Four Lights" publication from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom1946-1961
1Miscellaneous newspapers and magazinesundated
1Miscellaneous publicationsundated
1National Council Against Conscription material undated
1"The Other Way" publication from the Fellowship of Reconciliation 1954-1957
1"Peace - Action" publication from the New Jersey Fellowship of Reconciliation 1961
1Proposed Congressional amendments and congressional records excerptsundated
1War Resistor's International material 1924-1961
1War Resistor's League material 1940-1962
1Women's International League for Peace and Freedom material1927-1928, 1961
1Women's Peace Union undated
1Women's Political Union undated
1World Events material undated
1"WRL News" publication from the War Resistor's League 1946-1961