Postcard : Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, The Woman's Journal, to Massachusetts newspaper editors. February 15, 1890
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Newspaper--Letters to the editor
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Women--Suffrage--Canada
Women--Suffrage--Kansas
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Women--Suffrage--Wyoming
On front is handwritten "Mrs. Lucy Stone Dorchester Mass."
On back is a form letter entitled "Municipal Suffrage for Women."
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
1890-02-15
1 p.
English
DOCU-1890-02.01
DOCU-1890-02.02
Massachusetts
Leaflet : Twelve Reasons Why Women Want to Vote by Alice Stone Blackwell. Woman Suffrage Leaflet. Vol. 6, No. 4. July, 1893.
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
Campaign literature
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Women--Political activity--United States
Women--Suffrage--Periodicals
The Woman Suffrage Leaflets were one of the ongoing series published by the Woman's Journal.
Written by Alice Stone Blackwell, this list was reprinted numerous times in a variety of formats. Blackwell outlines the reasons why women want the right to vote. These include having a voice in making the laws; educating and broadening women's minds; influencing public affairs; electing better men to office; protecting women's business interests; correcting the corruption that existed in politics; and creating laws that adequately represented women's interests.
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Boston, Mass. : Woman's journal
1893-07
2 p.
English
DOCU.1893.04
Massachusetts
Leaflet : Women of Virginia : this is your opportunity. 1921
Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954
Campaign literature
Elections--Virginia
Governors--Virginia
Republican Party (Va.)
Campaign flier for candidate, Henry W. Anderson, a U.S. attorney and a leader of the Republican party in Virginia, who was running for Governor of Virginia. The flier contains information on public schools, child welfare and mother's relief, public roads, and government and taxation. On the back is a list of the Republican nominees for state offices for 1921. Anderson lost to Elbert Lee Trinkle.
[Republican Party (Va.)]
1921
4 p. Bifold
English
DOCU.1921.01
Virginia
Pamphlet : The New Look. CIO Political Action Committee. [Circa 1942-1945]
Campaign literature
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
United States--Politics and government--1940-1950
Voting
Campaign literature that uses a popular slogan, "the new look" as a way to encourage women to vote. The pamphlet contains photographs and facts about the conditions for families before and after women had the right to vote, outlines the work still to be done to improve conditions and provides information on how women can do their part by voting in elections and educating their husbands on who to vote for, and using the local political action committee as a resource.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations was founded in 1928 as a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada. The CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955. The CIO PAC was established in 1942.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
Washington, D.C. : Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee
[Circa 1942-1945]
15 p.
English
Flier : Why Michigan lost the equal suffrage amendment in 1912. [1913]
Anti-suffrage
Campaign literature
Constitutional amendments
Elections--Corrupt practices
Michigan Equal Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--Michigan
Discusses the results of the 1912 election in Michigan, when the woman suffrage amendment was defeated, and the reasons for this result. According to the information provided, the amendment passed, but was nullified by "political manipulation" and there is a list some of the "irregularities" that were found. The verso provides a list of arguments made by "bad people" against woman suffrage, and includes "the gambler", "the grafter", "the employer of child labor", "the white slave trafficker", and more.
Woman suffrage was defeated again in the 1913 election. Michigan women were granted the right to vote in presidential elections in 1917 and in 1918, Michigan voters approved the state constitutional amendment granting suffrage to Michigan women.
Michigan Equal Suffrage Association
Detroit, Mich. : Michigan Equal Suffrage Association
[1913]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1913.13
Broadside : Logic for the business man. New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. [Circa 1915]
Business
Campaign Literature
Constitutional amendments
Elections
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Appeals to businessmen by making the argument that voting for the woman suffrage amendment is logical and "good business."
The presence of the imprint of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company indicates that the National American Woman Suffrage Association distributed the broadside and the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association reprinted it for the 1915 referendum campaign in New Jersey.
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Plainfield, NJ: N.W.S. Publishing Co., Inc.
[Circa 1915]
English
DOCU.1000.117