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Postcard : Governor Hughes' Vetoes; the real Hughes and woman's rights. 1907
In 1907, Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide equal pay to men and women holding the same position. This card comments on Hughes' veto of the equal pay bill and a teacher's retirement pension bill for the public…
Pamphlet : The New Look. CIO Political Action Committee. [Circa 1942-1945]
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…
Letter : Alice Carpenter, member of the New York State Committee of the National Progressive Party, to Mrs. Arthur Nickuire. September 18, 1912
Typed letter on National Progressive Party stationery.
Illinois State Register. (Springfield, Ill.) Vol. 85, no. 231. August 18, 1920
The main headline on the front page is "Suffrage Battle is Won! Tennessee Ratifies Today/ 25 Million Women Are Given Ballot" The paper features photographs of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony.
The primary article…
The primary article…
Clipping : Cartoons magazine. Votes for Women. [1912]
Reproductions of drawings by Billy DeBeck and William Kemp Starrett, originally published in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and the Knickerbocker Press.
The cartoons depict Rosalie Jones' suffrage hike from Manhattan to Albany, New York to bring…
The cartoons depict Rosalie Jones' suffrage hike from Manhattan to Albany, New York to bring…
Clipping : Cartoons magazine. The March to Washington. [1913]
Reproductions of drawings by Clifford Berryman, Robert W. Satterfield, and J.H. Donahey, originally published in the Washington Star, Central Press Association, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The cartoons depict the National American Woman…
The cartoons depict the National American Woman…
Clipping : "Woman suffrage declared a failure." The Literary Digest. April 12, 1924
Clipping from the Literary Digest suggests that women in the United States are apathetic about public affairs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and several woman suffrage supporters provide a…
Clipping : "Why are women not allowed to stay at polls? Suffrage assn. urges the election inspectors to read laws." [The Bay City Tribune.] [1912]
News article about efforts by members of the Bay County Equal Suffrage Association to force election inspectors to review state laws to confirm the rights of women in Michigan to be represented at every polling precinct throughout the county.
Circular Letter : School Meeting Women Voters, Attention! School Suffrage Committee, New York State Woman Suffrage Association. 1910.
Mrs. Zobedia Alleman, Chairman of the School Suffrage Committee for the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, urges all eligible women to vote in school elections; outlines eligibility requirements; lists country representatives on the school…