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  • Collection: Buttons and Ribbons

BUTN-1910-03 Justice Votes Button.JPG
Blue enamel on sterling silver pinback button that features the allegorical figure of Justice holding up a pair of scales.

This button is most likely issued to lobby for suffrage in New York because blue is one of the official colors of New…

BUTN-1910-03 Justice Votes Button.JPG
Blue enamel on sterling silver pinback button that features the allegorical figure of Justice holding up a pair of scales.

This button is most likely issued to lobby for suffrage in New York because blue is one of the official colors of New…

BUTN-1910-03 Black-Gold Stars Votes Button.jpg
Black on gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" surrounded by ten stars. The ten stars represent the number of states in which women have the right to vote at the time it was created.

White back paper contains the name of the…

BUTN-1910-04 Blue-Gold Stars Votes Button.jpg
Blue on gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" surrounded by ten stars. The ten stars represent the number of states in which women have the right to vote at the time it was created.

White back paper contains the name of the…

BUTN.1910.06.jpg
Purple, green and white celluloid pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" printed in gold. This button was most likely distributed by the Women's Political Union, founded by Harriot Stanton Blatch. The WPU adopted the same colors as the…

BUTN.1910.07.jpg
Purple, white, green, and gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" in black print.

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer.

BUTN.1910.05.jpg
Red on white on blue pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" surrounded by six stars.

This pin was produced by the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1911 when California was expected to become the sixth suffrage…

BUTN-1910-10 Black-Gold Votes.jpg
Black on gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women."

The black and gold indicate that this was most likely issued by the National American Woman Suffrage Association but may have been distributed during the California campaign in…

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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…

BUTN.1910.09.jpg
Blue on yellow celluloid pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" surrounding a blue flag with ten stars.

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer.

This button was issued by Illinois suffragists, sometimes with nine stars.…
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