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Clipping : "Western States in Favor of Suffrage, Retuns Indicate / Kansas approves Constitutional Amendment by 50,000; Arizona Voices Approval." [November 6, 1912]
News article with election results regarding women's suffrage in Kansas, Arizona, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
The measure was defeated in Wisconsin, and passed in Kansas, Arizona, and Oregon.
The newspaper is not identified. The year is written on…
The measure was defeated in Wisconsin, and passed in Kansas, Arizona, and Oregon.
The newspaper is not identified. The year is written on…
Clipping : Cartoons magazine. Votes for Women. [1912]
Reproductions of drawings by Paul Plaschke, James North, and Arthur Racey originally published in the Louisville Post, Tacoma Daily Ledger, and Montreal Star.
"When The Women Vote" by Paul Plaschke shows a woman approaching a small house on…
"When The Women Vote" by Paul Plaschke shows a woman approaching a small house on…
Clipping : Harper's Weekly. Women at the polls in New Jersey in the good old times. November 13, 1880
Hand colored engraving by Howard Pyle, appeared on page 724 of Harper's Weekly, entitled "Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times." The illustration shows women casting votes at a municipal election, referring back to the period from…
Clipping : Women! For your own good. Vote the Republican Ticket. Vogue. [October 1920]
Advertisement in Vogue magazine by the Republican National Committee, encouraging women voters to vote the Republican ticket for President, Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
Cloth rose button and ribbon : I cast my first vote. [1921]
Pink paper rose with green stem and a picture of the candidate, Horace E. Kennedy, in the center. The rose is attached to a yellow ribbon with black printed text: "I cast my first vote at a municipal election in the red rose city for Kennedy and the…
Envelope : 100 Women's Official Ballots for or against an act to revise the law with relation to banks and banking. 1920
Envelope that would have held ballots related to a revision to a banking law. The envelope was intended to be opened only by an election official.
Etching : The rights of women, or the effects of female enfranchisement. 1853
Extracted from the artist, George Cruikshank's, "The Comic Almanack" for 1853, this pro-suffrage cartoon was originally the folded frontispiece of the publication. In it, a crowd of men and women surround the platform holding "The Ladies Candidate"…
Flier : "Politics is man's business." Some political questions . . . Is politics woman's business, too? New York State Woman Suffrage Party [Circa 1914-1917]
Series of questions "all settled by politics and votes." The questions concerned issues that were considered of direct interest to women, including food safety regulation, education, child labor, protective labor legislation, mother's pensions, etc.
Flier : A million women : appeal to the voters of New York for Justice. Empire State Campaign Committee. 1915
Flier published by the Empire State Campaign Committee in advance of the 1915 election in New York contains statistics and arguments about women's suffrage, including the number of women who want the right to vote, the number of women already able to…
Flier : A word to the wise. Empire State Campaign Committee. [Circa 1914-1915]
Using excerpts from a pro-suffrage speech by Congressman Edward T. Taylor, of Colorado, where women were granted full suffrage in 1893, he answers common questions about the impact of woman suffrage in his state. These issues include whether or not…