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Leaflet : Woman suffrage and wages : will the ballot help women more than it does men. March 7, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter to the editor of the New York times by author identified only as "E.S.C." The author makes the claim that women's wages and working conditions will not necessarily improve if they are granted the vote.
The letter was reprinted by the Albany…
The letter was reprinted by the Albany…
Leaflet : Do not want the ballot : a correspondent who is opposed to making them voters. March 22, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter to the editor of the New York times by author identified only as "E.S.C." The author argues that if granted the right to vote, women would not use it and it would only cause them physical discomfort. He or she also says that women's votes will…
Leaflet : Was unjustly quoted : President Eliot of Harvard University writes a letter… October 14, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter from Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, written to Bishop William Croswell Doane, of Albany, New York, reprinted for distribution by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association.
Eliot objects to the use of a quutation from an…
Eliot objects to the use of a quutation from an…
Leaflet : The bulwark of indifference. [Circa 1896-1900]
Article written by author identified only as "F.R.S." The author discusses the idea that women are indifferent to voting because of the expanded employment opportunities open to them and the fact that homemakers do not desire the vote.
Leaflet : Woman suffrage. / by Jane C. Harvey. November 29, 1895. [Circa 1895-1900]
Essay written by Jane C. Harvey, of Tacoma, Washington in opposition to woman suffrage. The essay was most likely printed for distribution by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York in Albany, New…
Leaflet : Translated. Extracts from "Revue des deux Mondes," August, 1896." "L'Australie et la Nouvell-Zelande." "Les experiences sociales-Le feminisme"-par M. Pierre Le Roy Beaulieu. [Circa 1898-1900]
Extracts from an article written by M. Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu from the Revue des deux Mondes, a French literary and cultural affairs magazine, translated as "Australia and New Zealand. Social Experiences-Feminism"
Leaflet : The woman suffrage vote; an analysis of it by the Man Suffrage Association. December 4, 1895. [Circa 1895-1900]
Letter written "to the people of Massachusetts" by Francis C. Lowell, Chairman, and Charles R. Saunders, Secretary, of the Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. The letter analyzed the results of the 1895 non-binding referendum concerning municipal…
Leaflet : Some of the reasons against woman suffrage / by Francis Parkman. [Circa 1895-1900]
Reprint of an essay written by historian and writer, Francis Parkman, originally published in 1884. Parkman offers reasons why women should not be permitted to vote, including health risks to women, the danger to popular government, and the idea that…
Report of the Third Judicial District of New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, from May 1st, 1896, to May 1st, 1897. [1897]
Annual report of the Third Judicial District of the New York State Association Oppossed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women includes a summary of activities and a list of where letters and leaflets were sent throughout the year.
Special Anti-suffrage page. [Circa 1897]
Special newspaper issued by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York. It is a compilation of articles on the written about the anti-suffrage movement and the reasons for opposition to suffrage.…