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Cover illustration of Harper's Weekly magazine, entitled "The Militant Recruit." Features Theodore Roosevelt knocking on the door to "Woman's Suffrage Campaign Headquarters" to bring them flowers.

Published in the Ladies' Home Journal in 1911, this survey of prominent women of the time indicates that the women interviewed were largely opposed to woman suffrage. The magazine was on record in opposition to women's right to vote.
Women quoted…

In 1870, Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry Browne Blackwell, founded The Woman’s Journal, a weekly newspaper. Their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell began work as an editor in 1883 and became the sole editor until 1917. At its founding, the Woman's…

The cover of this issue, the "Eve and Adam Number" features an illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, "The First Sunday." The title, "Life" is spelled out by the snakes in the tree.

In this issue:
"Life's Suffragette Contest" offers readers the…

The cover features a drawing by Charles Dana Gibson entitled "Congratulations." In it, Lady Liberty shakes hands with a woman holding a ballot, congratulating her on winning the right to vote.

Life Magazine, Inc. was founded by John Ames Mitchell…

The Remonstrance was the official organ of the anti-suffrage movement in Massachusetts. It was published annually until 1908, when it was published quarterly. In 1914, the title was changed to "The Remonstrance Against Woman Suffrage."

"It…

The Remonstrance was the offical organ of the anti-suffrage movement in Massachusetts. The idea of "remonstrances" was first developed by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (later the Women's…

Articles by James McGowan, premier of New South Wales, Australia, where women gained the right to vote in 1902, and his wife Eliza, or Mrs. James S.T. McGowan. Both articles address women's voting rights and the positive impact women voters have had…

The West Coast Magazine, edited at this time by John S. McGroarty, ran a special "Woman's number" in honor of the woman's suffrage win in California.

In June of 1912, one month prior to this issue, Elizabeth Murray Coffin of Iowa was announced as…

Brief opinion piece advocating for woman's suffrage in Michigan.