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Clipping : "Suffragettes Get 4 Months Each in Jail / Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Tukes and Mrs. Marshall Sentenced for Stone Throwing." [March 2, 1912]
News article details the sentencing of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mabel Tuke, and Kitty Marshall for smashing two of the windows of the Prime Minister's residence. While Scotland Yard was preparing for a suffrage demonstration scheduled for the following…
Clipping : "Suffragettes' Big Gathering Proves Fiasco / 50 women are arrested while attempting meeting in Parliament Square." [March 5, 1912]
News article about a suffrage demonstration held in London only a few days after 142 women were arrested for smashing shop windows in London's West End. The article discusses the demonstration and the arrest of 50 women, and also the separate raids…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Sentenced to 5-Year Term: penal servitude for woman who threw hatchet at premier Asquith." [August 8, 1912]
Article about suffragists Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Lizzie Baker was also charged and sentenced to seven months imprisonment. Mabel Capper, was discharged for lack of evidence.
Leigh was convicted for…
Leigh was convicted for…
Clipping : "Sir Edward Grey Waylaid by Women / Suffragettes Hold up British Secretary of State at Door of Church." [August 19, 1912]
News article about an argument between British suffragettes and Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, as Grey was leaving church.
The newspaper is not identified. The year is written on the clipping
The newspaper is not identified. The year is written on the clipping
Clipping : "Borden Replies to Suffragettes / Candian Premier declines to aid cause in dominion." [August 28, 1912]
Brief article about Canadian Prime Minister, Robert Borden's statement to suffragists that he had no power to introduce a measure granting women the right to vote in Canada.
In 1912, Prime Minister Borden met with a delegation of five members of…
In 1912, Prime Minister Borden met with a delegation of five members of…
Clipping : Miss Christabel Pankhurst. [September 25, 1912]
Photograph with caption:
"Latest portrait of suffragette leader, who has temporarily transferred her operations from London to Paris"
Newspaper not identified. Date written on the clipping.
"Latest portrait of suffragette leader, who has temporarily transferred her operations from London to Paris"
Newspaper not identified. Date written on the clipping.
Clipping : "With Wife, Six Sons and Two Daughters All Voting No Wonder Dad was Elected, Hurrah for Woman Suffrage." By Premier James S.T. McGowan. [Circa 1910-1915]
Articles by James McGowan, premier of New South Wales, Australia, where women gained the right to vote in 1902, and his wife Eliza, or Mrs. James S.T. McGowan. Both articles address women's voting rights and the positive impact women voters have had…
Letter : Deborah K. Livingston, Maine Woman Suffrage Association, to Hon. Edward N. Merrill, Skowhegan, Maine. April 6, 1917
Solicitation letter from Deborah K. Livingston, Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association to Edward Merrill, Maine State Senator and a member of the executive committee of the Men's Equal Suffrage League, to fund the…
Broadside : Women Vote Under These Flags. [1918-1919]
Full color circular highlights the countries where women have the right to vote and asks the question, "Why do not all women vote under the flag of democracy?"
Leaflet : The English Woman's Campaign for Legal Equality. National Woman's Party. [1921-1925]
The leaflet compares the progress in the campaigns for women's suffrage and full equality between England and the United States. On the back is a membership form for the National Woman's Party.