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Alva Erskine Stirling. Smith. Belmont. Whitewood Plot, Sections 133, 134. Suffragette. Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, she was the daughter of a successful cotton merchant and plantation owner. Her parents were ruined at the outbreak of the Civil War and fled to Paris, France with their five children. When they returned to the United States ...
Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont. Mobile native Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933) was a nationally and internationally renowned champion of women's right to vote. She used much of her great wealth to finance campaigns for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and to advocate for women's rights in nations across the world.
Died: 1932. Alva V. Belmont was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women’s suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention. She was born on January 17, 1853, at 201 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama to Murray Forbes Smith, a merchant, and Phoebe Smith. Her ...
Alva Eskrine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont was an art collector, architecture authority, member of the American Institute of Architecture, and was active in the Women's Suffrage Movement in the U.S. Belmont collected Italian primitives, portraits by Clouet, 15th and 16th century Flemish Tapestries, and was an avid patron of William Morris Hunt.
She was brought up in New York aside from four years in Paris. On one hand, Alva was the haughty, high-handed society hostess of New York's Gilded Age, but she also almost single-handedly pioneered women's rights in America. In 1909, she established the Political Equality League to get votes for suffrage-supporting New York State politicians ...
30 de jul. de 2014 · Posted on July 30, 2014 March 18, 2022 Author Ferret Research Categories 20th century, Women's History Tags administrators, Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, Doris E. Fleischman, Duchess of Marlborough, female executive, Florence Kelley, Katharine B. Davis, Mary M. Bartelme, Maud Ballington Booth, Rose Schneiderman, social welfare, women's conference
New-York Historical Society. April 6, 2017. in Behind the Scenes. Suffrage on the Menu: Traces of the Life and Legacy of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. Written by Ina R. Bort. Recently acquired by the New-York Historical Society, this small plate adorned with the “Votes for Women” slogan is linked to Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a notable New Yorker ...
