Anna Overduin (1877-1937) was a graduated medical doctor. She introduced the remedial therapy called Mensendieck in the Netherlands. In 1913, she married Charles Jacobs, a nephew of Aletta Jacobs. Overduin was also a so-called ‘Sor’, according to this badge. The Soroptimist movement was founded in the United States in 1921. The name Soroptimist was coined from the […]

Atria has various beautiful banners carried by women during women’s suffrage demonstrations. This particular banner from the Alkmaar section is the largest in the collection. It was not self-evident that banners were carried. Large groups of women felt hesitant to speak in public or to take to the streets to propagandize the good cause, let alone […]

Aletta Jacobs travelled around the world together with Carrie Chapman Catt. In 1912 they visited China, where Aletta Jacobs received this beautiful fan from Sophia Chang. She was the acting president of the organization for women’s suffrage in Shanghai. The fan was handmade by Chang herself. On it one can find a verse in Chinese characters. Just before their […]

C.M.L. Pardede-baroness van Boetzelaer (1912-2011) was an important woman during the Second World War. In 1942, she was co-founder of the Bond van Nederlandsche Vrouwen in Groot-Brittannië (Union of Dutch Women in Great-Britain). From 1940 until 1944 she had been connected to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had its seat in London at the time. […]

In the south of the Netherlands – the catholic part – this placard could be found hanging in the bus.

Among the thousands of items that were retrieved from Moscow in 2003, was this extraordinarily watercolour of Rosa Manus (1881-1942). Rosa Manus, ‘a modern woman of stature’, was one of the founders and the first president of the International Archives for the Women’s movement in 1935. At the bottom right ‘J.H. Sp. 27’. These intitials […]