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Pamphlet : Women and Citizenship. 1918
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…
Pamphlet : The case against woman suffrage: the most important question on the ballot at the state election. November 2, 1915
The pamphlet, addressed "to the men of Massachusetts" provides detailed arguments against woman suffrage. Sections include: "The vote not a natural right"
"A privilege with a heavy obligation"
"The net result of woman suffrage a loss to women and to…
Pamphlet : The blank-cartridge ballot. [Circa 1900]
Rossiter Johnson was a prominent author and editor whose wife, Helen Kendrick Johnson, also a writer, was active in the anti-suffrage movement.
The author discusses reasons why women's suffrage would be a mistake, including the idea that African…
The author discusses reasons why women's suffrage would be a mistake, including the idea that African…
Pamphlet : Have you heard the news? August 1917
Pamphlet issued by the Woman Suffrage Campaign Committee of Bangor, Maine to campaign for the Maine Women's Suffrage Referendum, also known as Proposed Amendment No. 1, on September 10, 1917. The measure was defeated.
Uses the phrase "Have you…
Uses the phrase "Have you…
Pamphlet : Do You Know? 1917
Blue and white pamphlet sealed with 1916 American Red Cross Christmas stamps, entitled "Do You Know?"
The pamphlet includes a list of facts detailing women's efforts to gain the right to vote throughout the country, and the reasons why women…
The pamphlet includes a list of facts detailing women's efforts to gain the right to vote throughout the country, and the reasons why women…
Pamphlet : Do you know "all the reasons why the ballot should not be granted to women?" Here's the answer. 1915
Sixteen pages are left blank.
This pamphlet was created to lobby for the upcoming suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania. Held November 2, 1915, Pennsylvania voters defeated the suffrage amendment by a margin of 55,000 (out of 800,000 votes cast).…
This pamphlet was created to lobby for the upcoming suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania. Held November 2, 1915, Pennsylvania voters defeated the suffrage amendment by a margin of 55,000 (out of 800,000 votes cast).…
Pamphlet : A history of the equal suffrage movement in New Hampshire 1868-1912
This pamphlet was created to lobby New Hampshire voters to become the seventh state to grant women the right to vote.
Letter and envelope : County Chairman [Iowa Equal Suffrage Association?] to a school teacher. March 18, 1916
Letter most likely sent to teachers throughout Black Hawk County asks the recipient to conduct a survey of men in their school district on how they intend to vote on the suffrage referendum in the upcoming election on June 5th. The referendum did not…
Letter : Vera Boarman Whitehouse, Chairman, New York State Woman Suffrage Party, to male voter. [1917]
Letter addressed to a male New York voter (soldier) to lobby for the woman suffrage amendment. The packets sent out included suffrage literature.
Letter : Ralph O. Brewster, Men's Equal Suffrage League, to Mr. E.N. Merrill, Skowhegan, Maine. March 26, 1917
Invitation from Ralph Brewster to Edward Newton Merrill, State Senator from Maine and a member of the League's executive committee, to attend a meeting of the Men's Equal Suffrage League in the Maine House of Representatives to organize for the…