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Gold decorative rim and white celluloid center with "Virginia" printed in blue. Attached to the pin is a gold silk ribbon with the printed slogan "Votes for Women."

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Celluloid button with a picture of the Liberty Bell at the center and the words "Liberty Justice 1776-1915." Hanging from the pin are a gold ribbon with the slogan "Votes for Women" printed in black and a small American flag.

This piece was…

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Gold ribbon and gold decorative pin with a celluloid photograph of Anna Howard Shaw. The back of the celluloid button is white with blue printed text that reads "President N.A.W.S.A."

This was issued for the New York State Woman Suffrage…

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Enamel on brass pin in the shape of a flag on its pole, containing the slogan "Votes for Women."

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Turquoise, brown and white pinback features the rising sun in gold against a white ground with "Votes for Women" above the sun rays and "1915" at the base of the button. The lettering is printed in turquoise.

Issued during the Empire State…

BUTN.1915.12.jpg
Turquoise, brown and white pinback features the rising sun in gold against a white ground with "Votes for Women" above the sun rays and "1915" at the base of the button. The lettering is printed in turquoise.

Issued during the Empire State…

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

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

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Red on white on blue pinback button with white stars surrounding the number "36."

Thirty-six was the number of states needed to ratify the 19th amendment to grant women the right to vote. In 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed…

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White on blue on white pinback button with the Pennsylvania keystone in the center with the "Votes for Women" banner.

This piece was created during the campaign to pass a women's suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania in 1915.

White backpaper…

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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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