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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

Enamel on brass pin in the shape of a flag on its pole, containing the slogan "Votes for Women."

Red, white and blue pinback button. The name "Women's Apparel Union" and "Women's Oversea Hospitals, U.S.A." surround center image of a nurse standing in front of the flags for Great Britain, the United States, and France.

The National American…

Black on green on white pinback. No manufacturer information on the back.

This button was the response from the Woman's Political Union to the common anti-suffrage buttons, which contained the same target design and the slogan "Vote NO on Woman…

Black on green on white pinback.

This button was the response from the Woman's Political Union to the common anti-suffrage buttons, which contained the same target design and the slogan "Vote NO on Woman Suffrage."

White back paper contains…

Black on white on red pinback button. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.

"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. The primary anti-suffrage organizations that may have distributed this button were…