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Senate Report: Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report to accompany bill S. 391 to enable Susan B. Anthony to pay a fine imposed upon her by the district court for the northern district of New York . . . Views of the minority . . . .1874
Series: 43rd Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 472
The Committee on the Judiciary recommended that the petition be discharged and the bill postponed indefinitely due to a lack of Congressional authority on the matter.
The Committee on the Judiciary recommended that the petition be discharged and the bill postponed indefinitely due to a lack of Congressional authority on the matter.
Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]
Part of a series of six anti-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 19, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All but one of the cards refers to the British Houses of Parliament.
On the verso, the card is…
On the verso, the card is…
Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]
Part of a series of six anti-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 19, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All of the cards, with the exception of this one, refer to the British Houses of Parliament. This card…
Postcard : To my Valentine. [Circa 1910-1915]
Postcard shows a police officer holding an angry suffragist who is carrying a "Votes for women" flag.
The poem refers to Holloway Prison in London, where many suffragists were imprisoned.
The poem refers to Holloway Prison in London, where many suffragists were imprisoned.
Postcard : The Suffragettes are we downhearted? No! [Circa 1905-1907]
Postcard with a cartoon illustration of a police officer struggling to carry a woman who is holding out a "Votes for Women" sign from Police Court.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss E. Harding "milwyn Villa" Blaengarw N. Bridgend, and…
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss E. Harding "milwyn Villa" Blaengarw N. Bridgend, and…
Postcard : The Suffragette- Proudly goes to - glory. [Circa 1909-1910]
Postcard is part of a six-card series entitled "The Suffragette. This card shows an ugly buck-toothed suffragists sticking her head through the bars of the carriage taking her to jail. She is holding a "Votes for women" flag upside-down.
On the…
On the…
Postcard : Mrs. Pankhurst arrested in Victoria Street. February 13, 1908.
Photographic postcard of the arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst on the charge of obstructing a policeman while on a deputation to the House of Commons. The next day she received a sentence of six weeks in Holloway prison. The deputation to the Commons…
Postcard : An appeal to John Bull. [Circa 1908-1909]
Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell, reaching out to John Bull, a personification of England. The poem along the bottom is an excerpt from "The Princess," by Alfred Lord…
Pamphlet : Votes for women. [Speech in defence of members of the Women's Freedom League at Bow Street Police Court. August 19th, 1909].
On Thursday, August 19th 1909, eight members of the Women's Freedom League were arrested at different times in Downing Street, where they had gone to present a petition to Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith. The women were charged with 'obstructing the…
Leaflet : Jailed for Freedom; some phases in the front line of a war for democracy not quite won. National Woman's Party. [1919]
Provides a photographic account of the National Woman's Party militant fight for woman's rights, including picketing the White House, arrests, imprisonment, hunger strikes, and burning President Wilson's speeches.