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Leaflet : Equality for women the country's need: an address delivered by James M. Curley, Mayor of the City of Boston. October 16, 1915
Reprint of an address by James Curley, mayor of Boston from 1914-1919, at Mechanics Hall. Curley argues that most reform laws, including improved labor laws, extension of the school age, public health laws, and employee pension were all met with…
Address : Education of woman : baccalaureate address of Thomas Holmes, President of Union Christian College. 1874
Inscribed with author's presentation slip: "To Miss Edna Farr compliments of Thomas Holmes"
The Rev. Thomas Holmes, D.D. was a pastor and educator, who became the president of Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana from 1865 until 1875. The…
The Rev. Thomas Holmes, D.D. was a pastor and educator, who became the president of Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana from 1865 until 1875. The…
Leaflet : Address of Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 3rd Judicial District of the State of New York, before the Committee on Resolutions of the Republican National Convention, at St. Louis. June 16, 1896
Crannell was the Chairman of the Anti-Suffrage Association of the 3rd Judicial District in New York. In her address she asks members to refuse to take action on the woman suffrage amendment.
She counters arguments regarding equal pay, taxation…
She counters arguments regarding equal pay, taxation…
Pamphlet : Address of May Wright Sewall, president of the National Council of Women at the opening of the second triennial session of the National Council of Women, Washington, D.C. February 18, 1895.
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 as a part of the International Council of Women, a new organization intended to establish connections between women's rights organizations across the world. May Wright Sewall was…
Senate report : Hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage. January 28, 1896
54th Congress, 1st Session; Document No. 157
Introduced by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the document details remarks by Elizabeth D. Bacon, Connecticut; Mary E. Marehand Milligan, Delaware; Ellen Powell Thompson, District of Columbia; Mrs. Frank L.…
Introduced by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the document details remarks by Elizabeth D. Bacon, Connecticut; Mary E. Marehand Milligan, Delaware; Ellen Powell Thompson, District of Columbia; Mrs. Frank L.…
Pamphlet : Rhode Island Women: address of Mrs. E.B. Chace before the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association in October, 1891; revised and corrected according to new legislation in legislature in 1893
Elizabeth Buffum Chace, one of the organizers of the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association, reflects on the history of Rhode Island and argues in favor of woman suffrage in Rhode Island.
Leaflet : Women and the state. Woman Suffrage Leaflet. Vol. 4, No. 12. December 1891
A reprint of an address made by Senator George F. Hoar in support of woman's suffrage, during a convention held in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 24, 1891.
Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…
Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…
Tract : Woman's influence in politics. An address delivered by Henry Ward Beecher, at the Cooper institute, New York ... Feb. 2, 1860.
Series: Woman's Suffrage Tracts, No. 1
Beecher argues that women have natural gifts in the same way as men do and should be permitted to publicly exercise those gifts in the same way. He advocates for woman's suffrage, saying the woman's influence…
Beecher argues that women have natural gifts in the same way as men do and should be permitted to publicly exercise those gifts in the same way. He advocates for woman's suffrage, saying the woman's influence…
The great epigram campaign of Kansas; Championship of woman; the revolution; Thirty speeches in two weeks in all parts of Kansas. 1867
Compilation of editorials, speeches, and extracts from journals about American entrepreneur, George Francis Train's trip to Kansas to stump for woman's suffrage. In November 1867, Kansas held a referendum to grant the vote to women and blacks in…