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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 Mob Premier Asquith / Hundred women arrested during riot following assault on prime minister." [November 23, 1910]
Account of attack on the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith by suffragists following a session in the House of Commons where he made a campaign promise to postpone discussion of a suffrage bill until the next parliament. Rioting and violence continued…
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 : "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 : "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…
Clipping : Cartoons magazine. A Pleasure Deferred. [1913]
Reproduction of a drawing by Bernard Partridge originally published in Punch Magazine, February 5, 1913.
A Pleasure Deferred. Suffragist shows a woman reaching out to H.H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, who is hiding behind a potted plant. The woman…
A Pleasure Deferred. Suffragist shows a woman reaching out to H.H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, who is hiding behind a potted plant. The woman…
Clipping : Cartoons magazine. As Viewed in Canada. [Circa 1912-1913]
Reproduction of a drawing by Arthur George Racey originally published in the Montreal Star.
As viewed in Canada. Canadian woman, "Why all this unnecessary and unasked fro fuss on my behalf. If I wish for suffrage in my country, all I have to do is…
As viewed in Canada. Canadian woman, "Why all this unnecessary and unasked fro fuss on my behalf. If I wish for suffrage in my country, all I have to do is…
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 : Cartoons magazine. Votes for Women. [Circa 1913]
Reproductions of drawings by H.W. Webster and Herbert Perry originally published in the Denver Times and the Sioux City Journal.
A Suggestion for London by H.W. Webster. The cartoon shows a woman who has just dropped her "Votes for Women" banner…
A Suggestion for London by H.W. Webster. The cartoon shows a woman who has just dropped her "Votes for Women" banner…
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.