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Pinback with colorful illustration of a herald holding a trumpet in one hand and, in the other, a banner with the word "Forward." Along the bottom is the name "Denver."

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer and the distributor.

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Blue on white pinback button with the Rochester union bug along the bottom.

No manufacturer information on the back.

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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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Red white and blue striped pinback button with the slogan "My first vote is for Harding." The manufacturer's name is inscribed on the back of the button.

This button was issued after the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote was passed…

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Greeen, white, and yellow pinback button with an image of an evergreen tree in the center surrounded by the words "National Junior Suffrage Corps. Youth Today Tomorrow Power."

The National Junior Suffrage Corps was created in 1914 by Caroline…

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Red, green and white pinback button with the name of the organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. The NUWSS was founded in Great Britain in 1897 by the merger of the National Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central…

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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.

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Blue on gold pinback button with six stars surrounding the slogan "Ohio Next."

Issued early in 1911 before California became a suffrage state, suffragists lobbied for Ohio to be the sixth state to pass a suffrage referendum. California became the…

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Black on white on red pinback button. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the union bug.

"Official" anti-suffrage colors were most often red, black, and white. The primary anti-suffrage organizations that may have…
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