Postcard : "There ain't much 'am in that sandwich, 'Arry." "No; but there's plenty of mustard." [Circa 1912-1914]
Clothing and dress
Women's Social and Political Union
A colored photo postcard featuring two men standing on a street corner outside a shop talking, beside a mannish suffragette holding a "Votes for women" placard.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Emma [?] 911 16th St. Detroit, Michigan, and postmarked February 1914. The handwritten message reads: "Hello. Emma How you was. I forgotten your House address so will send it to Stumms. Hope you get it OK & Rec'd you card glad to get it glad you are getting all relief. are you still at home. These are busy days all right here. How about it there good old time for mine. Best from [illegible]."
Holmfirth, England : Bamforth & Co., Ltd.
[Circa 1912-1914]
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
Clipping : "Beginning of Suffrage Pleas." [The Bay City Times.] 1913
Bay City (Mich.) -- Newspapers
Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932
Literature--Societies, etc.--Michigan--Ann Arbor
Michigan -- Bay City
Elections
Women--Suffrage--Michigan
This article, most likely from The Bay City Times in Michigan, makes reference to early calls for suffrage in Detroit, Michigan. The author mentions famed orator, Anna Dickinson and a debate on the subject of "Equal Suffrage" by the Adelphi Society.
[Bay City, Mich. : Bay City Times Co.]
1913
English