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BUTN-1910-03 Justice Votes Button.JPG
Blue enamel on sterling silver pinback button that features the allegorical figure of Justice holding up a pair of scales.

This button is most likely issued to lobby for suffrage in New York because blue is one of the official colors of New…

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Black on yellow pinback. The name of the manufacturer is printed on the back of the button.

Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania held referendums on woman suffrage in November 1915.

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Black on yellow pinback. The name of the manufacturer is printed on the back of the button.

Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania held referendums on woman suffrage in November 1915.

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Blue enamel on gold pinback button with the state seal of New York at the center.

This button was most likely issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The New York…

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Black on pink on white pinback. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.

"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. In this case, the manufacturer or possibly the organization that issued the button,…

BUTN.1915.03.jpg
Black on pink on white pinback. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.

"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. In this case, the manufacturer or possibly the organization that issued the button,…

BUTN.1914.03.jpg
Purple and gold pinback button with image of a herald blowing a trumpet. Along the rim are the words "National Woman Suffrage/Congressional Union."

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer.

BUTN-1910-03 Black-Gold Stars Votes Button.jpg
Black on gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women" surrounded by ten stars. The ten stars represent the number of states in which women have the right to vote at the time it was created.

White back paper contains the name of the…

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Blue and white pinback button with the appeal to "Let Mother Vote" inside an outline of the state of Ohio. This button was issued in 1911 when the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association was lobbying voters for an upcoming woman's suffrage referendum. The…

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Black on gold pinback button with the image of a woman standing in the foreground holding wheat in one hand and arrows in the other hand, the sun and mountains behind her, with the appeal "Let Ohio Women Vote."

Issued early in 1911 before…
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