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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.

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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…

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…

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…

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

Purple, green, and white pinback button with the logo for the Women's Political Union of New York. Founded by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the WPU adopted the same colors as the British Women's Social and Political Union.

White backpaper contains the…

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…

Pinback with an illustration by Rube I. Goldberg of a woman singing opera with the words "Don't Let It Suffer." White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer and the distributor.

These satirical buttons were issued by the American Tobacco…

Red, white, and blue pinback button with the words "Vote Citizenship Suffrage Amendment" divided into equal parts with an "E" at the center. This may have been distributed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the Empire State…