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
Postcard : Governor Hughes' Vetoes; the real Hughes and woman's rights. 1907
Campaign literature
Elections
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948
Pay equity -- Law and legislation -- New York (State)
Sex discrimination against women -- New York (State)
Women teachers -- New York (State)
In 1907, Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide equal pay to men and women holding the same position. This card comments on Hughes' veto of the equal pay bill and a teacher's retirement pension bill for the public schools of Schenectady, New York. This card was most likely published as a part of the campaign against his reelection in 1908.
1907
English
DOCU.1907.04
New York
Postcard : Membership application. [Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association]. [Circa 1913-1918]
Boston (Mass.)-Clubs
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Membership
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Women-Suffrage-Massachusetts
Membership application for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. Asks applicant to indicate the types of work they wish to do for suffrage and whether or not they subscribe to the Woman's Journal.
[Circa 1913-1918]
English
DOCU.1000.17
Massachusetts
Postcard : Les femmes veulent voter! Union Francaise pour le Suffrage des Femmes. [1909]
Ballots
Elections
French Union for Woman Suffrage
Voting
Women--Suffrage--France
Published by the French Union for Woman Suffrage, this is an illustration of women in line to cast their ballots at a polling station. The woman at the front is inserting her ballot into the box. Behind her is a woman holding a baby, followed by women holding up their hands and ballots.
The sign on the ballot box specifies objectives against alcohol, slums and war.
On reverse : Anciens Eta Le Deley, Paris
B. Chavannez
French Union for Woman Suffrage
[1909]
English
DOCU.1909.10
France
Postcard : The Suffragette. [Circa 1913-1915]
Children in advertising
Cupids (Art)
Satire
Valentine's Day
Postcard with a Valentine's Day theme, also known as a "penny dreadful," created to ridicule the suffrage movement
Woman wearing a sash with the word "Suffragette" and holding up a "Suffragette" pennant with one hand while she firmly squashes with the other a little Cupid, whose bow and arrow fly out of his hands. She is standing on a heart.
Made in the United States of America
[Circa 1913-1915]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.34
Postcard : I'm wedded to the cause. [Circa 1905-1915]
Children in advertising
Voting
Satire
Illustration of a boy proposing to a girl, wearing a "Votes for Women" ribbon and pointing to the banner she is holding with the slogan, "Give us the vote."
[Circa 1905-1915]
English
Postcard : Suffrage first! 1915
Children in advertising
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Satire
Pro-suffrage postcard, circulated by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The illustration features a young boy, holding flowers, leaning in for a kiss from the girl who holds up her hand to stop him, proclaiming, "Suffrage First!"
Elizabeth, N.J. : Campbell Art Co.
1915
English
Postcard : Equal suffrage is neither more nor less than simple justice. [Circa 1910-1915]]
Aphorisms and apothegms
Equality
Justice
National American Woman Suffrage Association
One of thirty suffrage aphorism postcards distributed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Each of these had a number--verify number in framed object>
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Cargill Company
[1910-1915]
English
Postcard : The Spirit of '76. 1915
Babies
Children in advertising
Kewpie art
Parades
Satire
Willard, Archibald M., 1836-1918. Spirit of '76
Lower right text: "After the painting by Willard." Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) painted the original "Spirit of '76" around 1875.
This pro-suffrage postcard features a recreation of Willard's painting with babies playing the fife and drums, marching in front of a "Votes for Women" flag.
Elizabeth, N.J. : Campbell Art Co.
1915
English
Postcard : Suffragette Madonna. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Nursing
Social role
Virgin Mary
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic cartoon postcards opposing woman suffrage.
This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 1, portrays a man feeding a child.
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]