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  • Collection: Buttons and Ribbons

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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…

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Red on white on blue pinback button with white stars surrounding the number "36."

Thirty-six was the number of states needed to ratify the 19th amendment to grant women the right to vote. In 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed…

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White on blue on white pinback button with the Pennsylvania keystone in the center with the "Votes for Women" banner.

This piece was created during the campaign to pass a women's suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania in 1915.

White backpaper…

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Black on gold pinback button with the image of a woman standing in the foreground holding wheat in one hand and arrows in the other hand, the sun and mountains behind her, with the appeal "Let Ohio Women Vote."

Issued early in 1911 before…

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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…

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Blue and white pinback button with the appeal to "Let Mother Vote" inside an outline of the state of Ohio. This button was issued in 1911 when the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association was lobbying voters for an upcoming woman's suffrage referendum. The…

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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…

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Purple and gold pinback button with image of a herald blowing a trumpet. Along the rim are the words "National Woman Suffrage/Congressional Union."

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer.

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

"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. In this case, the manufacturer or possibly the organization that issued the button,…

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

"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. In this case, the manufacturer or possibly the organization that issued the button,…
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