Browse Items (63 total)

  • Collection: Buttons and Ribbons

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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…

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Red, yellow and blue pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" and "Patriotism" surrounding the Great Seal of the United States at the center.

No manufacturer information on the back.

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Blue on gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women."

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer and distributor.

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Blue and yellow pinback button with 12 white stars around the border and the slogan "Votes for Women." The twelve stars represent the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made.

Printed on the back are the name of…

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Blue on gold celluloid pinback demands votes for both men and women.

The slogan was created by Dr. Eleanor M. Hiestand-Moore of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The button was the winning entry in a contest to replace the slogan "Votes for Women,"…

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Black on gold pinback button. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Chicago union bug.

This button may have been used in Iowa during the 1916 suffrage referendum. The referendum failed to pass at that time, but Iowa became…

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Black on yellow pinback button with the slogan "Vote for Woman Suffrage Nov. 6th." November 6th refers to the election held in New York on November 6, 1917, when voters cast ballots for a referendum granting women the right to vote in the state. The…

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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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Red white and blue striped pinback button with the slogan "My first vote is for Harding." The manufacturer's name is inscribed on the back of the button.

This button was issued after the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote was passed…

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Overall size, 10 cm.

1.25" brass rim holding celluloid with reverse metal back. Metal back also has soldered stickpin.
Background of pin is faded yellow, with black lettering circling around outer edges reading “Equal Rights and Personal…
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