Postcard : An appeal to John Bull. [Circa 1908-1909]
Arrest
England--London
John Bull (Symbolic character)--1900-1910
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell, reaching out to John Bull, a personification of England. The poem along the bottom is an excerpt from "The Princess," by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Lavor 4 Cambridge Rd Walton on Thames Surrey, and postmarked April 27, 1909. The handwritten message reads: "Dear Alice / Sorry could not come yesterday owing to the weather & I cannot come tomorrow as I have a friend coming to stay for a few days love from L. Elliot"
[Circa 1908-1909]
Postcard : Little Bo Peep. [Circa 1905-1913]
Clothing and dress
Leeds (England)
Nursery rhymes
Satire
Sheep
Valentines
Wit and humor
Part of a series of postcards labeled "Valentine's Series." This satirical card contains a color illustration of a little girl, "Little Bo Peep," wearing a large hat. She is holding a shepherd's crook in one hand and a newspaper in the other. the newspaper is entitled "Votes for Sheep" and has a picture of a lamb, captioned "A Martyr."
On the verso, the card is address to Miss L. Stubbs "Garhroyd?" the Drive Roundhay Leeds, and postmarked April 17 [year missing]. The handwritten message reads: "Monday / My dear Edna, / Thank you so very much for your photograph. I think it is splendid of you. I am having a lovely time, but it's nice to see the sea again. With love, Dorothy"
[Graeff?]
[Circa 1905-1913]
Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]
Great Britain.--Parliament--1900-1910
Government facilities--British--England--London
Nursery rhymes
Part of a series of six pro-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 23, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All of the cards refer to the British Houses of Parliament.
London : B.B. London
[Circa 1910]
Leaflet : Jailed for Freedom; some phases in the front line of a war for democracy not quite won. National Woman's Party. [1919]
Arrest
National Woman's Party
Picketing
White House (Washington, D.C.)
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Provides a photographic account of the National Woman's Party militant fight for woman's rights, including picketing the White House, arrests, imprisonment, hunger strikes, and burning President Wilson's speeches.
National Woman's Party
Washington, D.C. : National Woman's Party
[1919]
15 p.
English
DOCU.1919.02
Clipping : "Suffrage Hikers Reach Goal Today: Start Out Enthusiastically Despite Deep Snow and Drop In Temperature," [December 28, 1912]
Albany Equal Franchise League
Jones, Rosalie,--1883-
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Parades & processions--New York--1910-1920
Publicity
Sulzer, William, 1863-1941
United States--New York--Albany
Women--Political activity--New York---1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--New York
Brief update on the progress of "General" Rosalie Jones and her "army" of suffrage hikers from Manhattan to Albany, New York to present suffrage petitions to Governor-Elect William Sulzer and draw publicity to the cause.
Rosalie Jones was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association who led a group of NAWSA members on a suffrage pilgrimage from Manhattan to Albany, New York. The "pilgrims" presented the petition to Governor-elect Sulzer three days after they arrived in Albany.
Two months later, Jones organized another pilgrimage from New York City to Washington, D.C. for the March 3, 1913 suffrage parade.
Newspaper not identified. Year written on the clipping.
[1912-12-16]
English
Albany, New York
Clipping : "Suffragettes Sentenced to 5-Year Term: penal servitude for woman who threw hatchet at premier Asquith." [August 8, 1912]
Arrest
Baker, Mary Elizabeth, 1836-1913
Evans, Gladys, 1877-1967
Imprisonment
Leigh, Mary, 1885-1978
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women prisoners--Great Britain--Political activity
Article about suffragists Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Lizzie Baker was also charged and sentenced to seven months imprisonment. Mabel Capper, was discharged for lack of evidence.
Leigh was convicted for throwing a hatchet at a carriage carrying Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith and instead, hit and injured John Redmond, a member of Parliament and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Evans was convicted for setting fire to the Theatre Royal.
[1912-08-08]
English
London, England
Pamphlet : Votes for women. [Speech in defence of members of the Women's Freedom League at Bow Street Police Court. August 19th, 1909].
Arrest
Despard, C. (Charlotte)
Great Britain. Magistrates' Court (London : Bow Street)
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women's Freedom League
On Thursday, August 19th 1909, eight members of the Women's Freedom League were arrested at different times in Downing Street, where they had gone to present a petition to Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith. The women were charged with 'obstructing the police in the execution of their duty'. Timothy Michael Healy, K.C., M.P. appeared for the defence. Sixteen women were tried in the Bow street police court and ten were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from one month to six weeks.
Healy (1855-1931) was an Irish Nationalist leader and a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Women's Freedom League
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931
London : Women's Freedom League
[1912]
16 p.
English
DOCU.1909.12
Jailed for freedom / by Doris Stevens.
Women --Suffrage --United States
National Woman's Party
Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963
New York, Liveright Publishing Company
1920
Available online
http://books.google.com/books?id=3eQm9wZIMEkC&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false
Book
xii, 388 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
English
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