Anti-suffrage Pledge Card : I am opposed to woman's suffrage. [Circa 1910-1920]
Anti-suffrage
Membership
Party affiliation
Small card with the printed declaration: "I am opposed to woman's suffrage "with lines for a name and street. It is signed by Mrs. N.G. Abbott 51 Merrimack Street, Penacook.
Pro- and anti-suffrage cards were collected during meetings, rallies, and other events to boost membership in anti-suffrage organizations and ensure a commitment to the cause.
[Circa 1910-1920]
Business card : Actual speach [sic] at woman's suffrage meeting, Louis W. Jaugh Sample Room. [Circa 1900-1910]
Clothing and dress
Advertising
Speech
Business card for Louis W. Jaugh Sample Room in Buffalo, New York. One side contains the text of a speech given at a suffrage meeting and the other side contains the contact information for the business.
This speech was also reprinted on postcards and perhaps other media.
Louis W. Jaugh Sample Room (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Buffalo, N.Y. : Louis W. Jaugh Sample Room
[Circa 1900-1910]
Card : I'm a suffragette and I don't care who knows it. [Circa 1909-1913]
Children
Children and politics
Clothing and dress
Valentines
Voting
Embossed Valentine's Day card. On the front is a colorful illustration of a young girl, wearing a hat and dress, holding a ballot.
Written on the back: To Helen Hoagland / From R.I.R.
[Circa 1909-1913]
Greeting Card : Closed Fist. [Circa 1909-1913]
Embossed die-cut card in the shape of and with a full-color illustration of a woman's arm held up in a closed fist.
[Circa 1909-1913]
Meeting Notice : Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government. Faneuil Hall. October 7, [1918]
Boston (Mass.)-Clubs
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
Women-Suffrage-Massachusetts
Postcard notice of a public meeting with some political candidates to discuss the woman suffrage amendment.
Speakers included:
Otis Emerson Dunham, President, Hughes Club; Sylvester McBride, Socialist candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts; Willard Wylie, Prohibition candidate for Secretary of State; Edward McLaughlin, Chairman, Democratic City Committee; Wenona Osborne Pinkham, Chairman of Organization, Boston Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, Chairman, Massachusetts Congressional Committee.
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
1918-10
English
DOCU.1918.03
Boston, Massachusetts
Membership pledge card : Women's Social & Political Union. [Circa 1907-1908]
Membership
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
Pledge card issued to members of the Women's Social & Political Union to affirm support of the organization's policies. After restructuring the organization in 1907, members were required to sign the pledge.
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
Great Britain : Women's Social and Political Union
[Circa 1907-1908]
Pledge card : I will vote for equal suffrage in November 1915. [1915]
Constitutional amendments
Elections
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Pledge card issued by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. The headquarters were located at 585 Boylston Street, Room 12 in Boston.
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
[1915]
Postage Stamp : Votes for women New Jersey women voted 1776-1807 Why not now. [1913]
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
United States Postal Service
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Black on yellow postage stamp, created by the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association.
[New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association]
[New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association]
[1913]
Postage Stamp : Votes for women Pennsylvania.1915
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
United States Postal Service
Winged victory
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Blue and white postage stamp with the figure of winged victory, holding the Pennsylvania keystone, marked 1915.
The United States Post Office Department banned the sale of these stamps, noting their similarity to official postage stamps.
[Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association]
[Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association]
1915
Postcard : "Once-I-get my liberty, no-more-wedding-bells-for-me!"
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Housekeeping
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Social role
United States--Pennsylvania--Cowanesque
A woman leaves her home. Her husband, holding a bucket and scrub brush, is left to care for the home and the children. A "Votes for women" sign is hanging on the wall.
The quote on the postcard is from the song "I'm on my way to Reno", written by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz in 1910.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. Lee Skinner in Cowanesque, Pennsylvania, and postmarked April 7, 1911. There is no message written on the card.
Hobson, C.
1910