Empire State Campaign Materials [1915].
Empire State Campaign Committee
Women--Suffrage--New York
Documents from the New York Women's Suffrage Campaign of 1915.
The Empire State Campaign Committee was a coalition of organizations, including the Women's Suffrage Party, the Women's Suffrage Association, the Women's Political Union and other similar organizations, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt. It was created to bring New York women together in support of the state woman suffrage amendment. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.
Empire State Campaign Committee
New York : Empire State Campaign Committee
[1915]
English
DOCU.1915.50
Membership Form : Male Electors' League For Women's Suffrage. [Circa 1900-1910]
Elmy, Ben
Elmy, Frank Wolstenholme
Greenwell, Alan
Harvey, Edmund
Lewin, Walter
Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage
Membership
Pearce, C.W. Bream
Membership form for Male Electors’ League – setting out the Object of the League and the Terms of Membership and including a slip that could have been detached and returned to Ben Elmy, indicating approval of the principle and purpose of the League.
The Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage was founded before mid-1897 by Ben Elmy, the partner of Elizabeth Wolstenholme. From 1904 the organisation was run by their son Frank Wolstenholme-Elmy.
Provisional Committee listed on the form includes: C.W. Bream Pearce, Glasgow; Ben Elmy, Congleton, Cheshire; Rev Alan Greenwell, MA, Leamington; Edmund Harvey, Waterford; Walter Lewin, Bebington, Cheshire; Secretary Frank Wolstenholme Elmy, Bebington, Cheshire.
Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage
[Circa 1900-1910]
English
DOCU.1000.119
Postcard : Invitation by Mrs. William T. Peck to Miss Mary D. Larkin to a meeting of the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage Club. 1913.
Larkin, Mary D.
Lynchburg Equal Suffrage Club
Peck, Mrs. William T.
Women--Suffrage--Virginia
United States--Virginia--Lynchburg
Handwritten note that reads: "Your presence is urgently requested at a meeting of the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage Club to be held at 609 Court Street, on Monday, oct. 6th, at 4 p.m. to elect delegates to the State Equal Suffrage Convention which convenes in Lynchburg Oct. 23-24, 1913. Mrs. William T. Peck, Sec't. [Secretary]"
Peck, Mrs. William T.
1913
English
DOCU.1913.15
Advertisement for the Ethyl Corporation, appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, [Circa 1953-1954]
Advertising
Ethyl Corporation
Advertisement for the Ethyl Corporation featuring a scene from a suffrage demonstration, that ran in The Saturday Evening Post.
[Circa 1953-1954]
Brochure : The Prospective Mother's Own Book. Compiled by Anna Steese Richardson. 1918
"Richardson, Anna Steese 1865-1949
Child rearing--History--Sources
Suffragists--United States--Sources
Consumer education--United States--History--Sources"
Brochure that details pre-pregancy care and post-prengancy care along with care for the newborn.
Richardson, Anna Steese 1865-1949
New York : The Pictorial Review
1918
Drawings by Rose Cecil O'Neill
16 p.
English
DOCU.1918.10
Tract : Political Equality Series. Vol. IV, No. 8. "Woman Suffrage Endorsed" 1908.
"American Federation of Labor. Convention
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--United States--Periodicals
Women's rights--United States--Periodicals"
The Political Equality Series was a series of tracts produced by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
This issue provides an update on labors organizations that have endorsed woman suffrage, specifically focused on the recent endorsement by the American Federation of Labor at its Denver convention.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Warren, Ohio : National American Woman Suffrage Association
[1908]
English
DOCU.1908.07
Postcard : This card is good for 1000 votes when presented by the person to whom it is addressed. [Circa 1910-1915]
Ballot box
Voting
Postcard with an illustration of a woman waving her arm, knocking over a glass. She is standing behind a ballot box, labeled "Vote for No. 120
[Circa 1910-1915]
English
POST.1000.39
Postcard : Lend thy influence to each effort That shall raise our nature human [Circa 1910-1915]
Two little boys watching a little girl as she bends over to write the "Votes for Women" slogan on the wall
On reverse: Postmarked Hagerstown, Indiana, May 28, 191[5] Handwritten on card addressed to: M.M. Moore 201 N. 21 Street New Castle Indiana.
Barton & Spooner Co
[Circa 1910-1915]
English
Letter: to "Suffragist" signed by Katharine Houghton Hepburn, President of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. February 14, 1916.
Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, 1878-1951
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Political activity
Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
Typed on "Votes for Women" stationery, the letter is an invitation to members to attend a conference on Congressional Work with featured speaker, Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, 1878-1951
1916-02-14
English
DOCU.1916.22
Broadside : Logic for the business man. New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. [Circa 1915]
Business
Campaign Literature
Constitutional amendments
Elections
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Appeals to businessmen by making the argument that voting for the woman suffrage amendment is logical and "good business."
The presence of the imprint of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company indicates that the National American Woman Suffrage Association distributed the broadside and the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association reprinted it for the 1915 referendum campaign in New Jersey.
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Plainfield, NJ: N.W.S. Publishing Co., Inc.
[Circa 1915]
English
DOCU.1000.117