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BUTN.1914.01.jpg
Black, pink, and white enamel disk with the name of the organization, the National League Opposing Woman Suffrage, and in the center, a plant with the Scottish thistle, an English rose, and an Irish shamrock. The disk is a pendant connected to a…

DOCU.1918.08.jpg
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?"

PERI-1910-14-1 Vanity Fair No 1233 front.JPG
Color caricature of a woman in a long green dress reaching out with one hand. The subject was Christabel Pankhurst, eldest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and a co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.

The artist, Leslie Ward,…

MEMR.1905.03.jpg
Ceramic tobacco jar with a removable head in the shape of a woman with large eyes and an open mouth. She is wearing the purple, green, and white colors of the Women's Social and Political Union on her hat and the sash on her shoulder.

Inscribed…

PERI-1908-06 American Women Decry.jpg
Account of the disagreement between suffragists over the types of methods that should be employed to achieve their goals. Bettina Borrman Wells, of London England, advocates for militant methods to achieve women's suffrage and Harriet Stanton Blatch,…

PERI-1912-19 Borden Replies.jpg
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…

PERI-1909-05 English Leader.jpg
Photographs with captions:

"Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, English Suffragette Leader who Arrived in New York Yesterday for a Lecture Tour of the United States"

"Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Legion of Self-Supporting Women, and…

PERI-1910-05 Petticoat War.jpg
Account of a suffrage demonstration on Parliament in England led by Emmeline Pankhurst. 82 suffragists and supporters were arrested after bypassing a police cordon and making it to Prime Minister Asquith to demand introduction of the woman suffrage…

PERI-1912-26 Sir Edward Grey.jpg
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

PERI-1910-06 Fight policemen.jpg
Account of rioting by suffragists in England, where women stormed the home of Prime Minister Asquith, smashed windows in the homes of members of Parliament, and attacked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell. 156 women were reportedly…
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