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POST-1914-07 Im a Suffragette Valentine Heart.jpg
Embossed Valentine's Day card. On the front is a colorful illustration of a young girl, wearing a hat and dress, holding a ballot.

Written on the back: To Helen Hoagland / From R.I.R.

POST-1914-05 Im a Suffragette Valentine.jpg
Valentine's Day card with illustration of a young girl, wearing a hat and dress, holding a ballot.

This card is addressed to Mrs. M.F. Rogers in Wellington, Ohio, and postmarked February 9, 1914. The handwritten message reads: "Dear Grandma- There…

POST-1914-06 Votes for Women Certainly.jpg
Valentine's Day card with an illustration of a woman holding a man's hand as he drops his ballot into the ballot box.

This card is addressed "From Kid Doeley, Office Box" to Ruth Slade.

POST-1909-12 Suffrage Series No 12.jpg
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 12, features an illustration of a well-dressed woman holding a ballot.

PERI-1924-01-1 Literary Digest Suffrage Failure.jpg
Clipping from the Literary Digest suggests that women in the United States are apathetic about public affairs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and several woman suffrage supporters provide a…

PERI-1918-01-1 What Women Will Do p409.jpg
Article suggests that if women receive the right to vote, they will use it thoughtfully to help undernourished and impoverished children

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Author discusses the results of the non-binding referendum held in Massachusetts in which women were allow to vote on the issue of municipal suffrage and the referendum was rejected. The author asserts that women will not be granted the right to vote…

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Reprint of a statement given by Bishop George F. Seymour to a reporter from the Minneapolis Times about the way in which God made women and the negative implications of an idea such as "the new woman."

"The New Woman" was a term used toward the…

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Essay written by an unidentified author who suggests that "giving of the suffrage to women would bring about civil discord." She or he argues that women have all of the rights they need and granting women the right to vote would do more harm than…

POST-1905-02 Wedded to the cause.JPG
Illustration of a boy proposing to a girl, wearing a "Votes for Women" ribbon and pointing to the banner she is holding with the slogan, "Give us the vote."
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