Buttons
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
Political campaigns
Referendum
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, used the rising sun as the campaign's emblem. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.]]>
Buttons
Campaign buttons
Campaign insignia
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Political campaigns
Referendum
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, used the rising sun as the campaign's emblem. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.]]>
Buttons
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Referendum
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

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 referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.

The name of the manufacturer is inscribed on the back of the button.]]>
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Referendum
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey]]>

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Milford, New Hampshire union bug.]]>
Buttons
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Referendum
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey]]>

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Milford, New Hampshire union bug.]]>
Buttons
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Political campaigns
Votes for Women]]>
Buttons
Fundraising
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Patriotism
World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States]]>

The National American Woman Suffrage Association was active in the war effort and this was one of several buttons issued to support the fundraising efforts for Women's Oversea Hospitals.

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer.]]>
Great Britain
United States]]>
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Woman's Political Union]]>

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."]]>
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Woman's Political Union]]>

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 the name and address for the Woman's Political Union, 25 West 45th Street New York City, and the name of the manufacturer.]]>
Anti-suffrage
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"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. The primary anti-suffrage organizations that may have distributed this button were the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage (later the Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts) and/or the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage.]]>