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  • Collection: Buttons and Ribbons

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Turquoise, brown and white pinback features the rising sun in gold against a white ground with "Votes for Women" above the sun rays and "1915" at the base of the button. The lettering is printed in turquoise.

Issued during the Empire State…

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Blue enamel on gold pinback button with the state seal of New York at the center.

This button was most likely issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The New York…

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Black on yellow pinback. The name of the manufacturer is printed on the back of the button.

Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania held referendums on woman suffrage in November 1915.

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Black on yellow pinback. The name of the manufacturer is printed on the back of the button.

Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania held referendums on woman suffrage in November 1915.

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Purple and green pinback with the slogan "Votes for Women" printed in white.

Purple, green and white were colors associated with the suffrage movement in England, but several American suffrage organizations borrowed the colors.

White back…

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Black on gold pinback button. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Chicago union bug.

This button may have been used in Iowa during the 1916 suffrage referendum. The referendum failed to pass at that time, but Iowa became…

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Blue and yellow pinback button with 12 white stars around the border and the slogan "Votes for Women." The twelve stars represent the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made.

Printed on the back are the name of…

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Blue on gold celluloid pinback demands votes for both men and women.

The slogan was created by Dr. Eleanor M. Hiestand-Moore of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The button was the winning entry in a contest to replace the slogan "Votes for Women,"…

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Black on yellow pinback button. This button was created to lobby New Jersey voters for the suffrage referendum on October 19, 1915. The referendum failed to pass at that time.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Milford,…

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Black on yellow pinback button. This button was created to lobby New Jersey voters for the suffrage referendum on October 19, 1915. The referendum failed to pass at that time.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Milford,…
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