Postcard : Because woman owns real estate is no reason why she should vote-every woman (the same as man) is a tax payer and a citizen and "of the people." Enough said. 1910
Aphorisms and apothegms
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Property
This card, Number 113, is part of a set of 30 postcards, each containing a message, or aphorism, about suffrage. The cards were created by commercial publishing company, The Cargill Company, and were "endorsed and approved by the National American Woman Suffrage Association."
Grand Rapids, Mich : The Cargill company
1910
Postcard : It's up to the parents to teach the rising generation of both sexes that patriotism, citizenship and suffrage should know no sex. 1910
Aphorisms and apothegms
Citizenship
Mother and child
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Parents
Patriotism
This card, Number 102, is part of a set of 30 postcards, each containing a message, or aphorism, about suffrage. The cards were created by commercial publishing company, The Cargill Company, and were "endorsed and approved by the National American Woman Suffrage Association."
Grand Rapids, Mich : The Cargill company
1910
Broadside : Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason Becauseā¦ [Circa 1915]
Citizenship
Elections
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
United States--New York--Albany
Women consumers
Women employees
Women--Suffrage--New York
Lists reasons why women want the right to vote, including the fact that they pay taxes, want to improve children's lives, want to improve conditions for women workers, they are consumers and need full representation, and women are citizens.
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Albany, New York : New York State Woman Suffrage Association
[Circa 1915]
1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
DOCU.1915.49
Leaflet : The Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore. Proposed amendment to the Baltimore City Charter. [Circa 1909-1910]
Citizenship
Constitutional amendments
Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
Literacy
Maryland. Constitution (1910)
Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Women--Suffrage--Maryland
Language proposed by the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore to give the right to vote to every Baltimore resident, male or female, over the age of 21, provided that they:
"possess any one of the following qualifications, to wit: (a) If such person is qualified to vote for members of the House of Delegates; or (b) if he or she can read of write, from dictation, any paragraph or sentence of more than five lines contained in the Constitution of Maryland; or (c) if he or she is assessed with property in said city to the amount of $300 and has paid taxes thereon for at least two years preceding the election at which he or she offers to vote."
The bill was defeated. The Maryland legislature did not amend the state constitution to allow women to vote until after the 19th amendment was passed in 1920. Maryland finally ratified the amendment on May 29, 1941.
Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD : Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
[Circa 1909-1910]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.92
Leaflet : To women voters.
Citizenship
Dulwich Conservative Association
Dulwich (London, England)
Great Britain. Representation of the People Act (1918)
Politics
Unionist Party
Voting
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Published by the Dulwich Conservative Association of England after the passage of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which granted the vote to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification. The Act also gave the vote to all men over the age of 21. This leaflet attempts to educate new voters on the responsibilities of voting, with a discussion of the following:
1. What Politics are.
2. The Party System of Government
3. The Duties of Citizenship
4. The Unionist Party
Dulwich Conservative Association
Dulwich, England : W.W. Russell & Co.
[1918-1919]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1000.32
Dulwich (London, England)
Pamphlet : Women and Citizenship. 1918
Albany County Republican Committee
Citizenship
Elections
Party affiliation
Republican Party (New York, N.Y.)
United States--New York--Cohoes
United States--New York--Albany
United States--New York--Watervliet
Women--Suffrage--New York
Flier with information for women voters, granted the right to vote in New York in 1917, to encourage them to participate in open enrollment day to formally choose a political party affiliation. The flier discusses the meaning of citizenship and voting, and the state voter regulations.
Albany County Republican Committee
Albany, N.Y. : Albany County Republican Committee
[1918]
12 p.
English
DOCU.1918.09
New York
Handbill : Are women citizens? [1909]
Citizenship
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
This flier, published by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies asks and answers several questions, including:
Are women citizens?
Does law concern women?
Is direct representation desirable in the interest of the people?
The reverse contains information about the NUWSS, including a list of the officers, office hours, and mission statement.
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
[1909]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1909.09
Westminster, S.W.
Pamphlet : Women and citizenship : Papers read by Miss M.S. Kilgour and Miss E.M.A. Smith to the A.U.W.T. members on June 20th, 1908
Citizenship
Education (Higher)
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain
Women's rights--Great Britain
This pamphlet includes papers read by two women, Mary Stuart Kilgour and Miss E.M.A. Smith to members of the Association of University Women Teachers.
Kilgour, M. S. (Mary Stewart)
Smith, E.M.A.
London : Women's Printing Society
[1909]
8 p.
English
DOCU.1908.05
Pinback button : I am a Citizen. [Circa 1915-1920]
Advertising, Political--United States
Buttons
Campaign buttons
Campaign insignia
Citizenship
Political campaigns
Blue on white pinback button with the Rochester union bug along the bottom.
No manufacturer information on the back.
[Rochester, N.Y. : Bastian Bros. Co. (Manufacturer)]
[Circa 1915-1920]
English
BUTN.1915.24
Broadside : The Crowning Constitutional Argument. 1873
Citizenship
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of citizenship, guaranteed in by the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment. Since women were citizens, they already had the right to vote. She never accepted the idea that women needed another constitutional amendment to vote, and referred to this as her "crowning constitutional argument."
Her speech to Congress in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two.
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
1873-01-20
United States. Congress (42nd, 3rd session : 1872-1873)
ALMS.1873.01 "A Memorial to Mary E. Walker"
1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
ALMS.1873.02a
Washington, D.C.