Postcard : I'm going to make a suffrage speech to all the folks whom I can reach. [Circa 1909-1915]
Cupids
Speech
Series of cards with Cupid as the central figure. This card features a black and white illustration of Cupid standing on a platform, wearing a "We want the vote" sash, holding a gavel.
C.E. Perry
[Circa 1909-1915]
Postcard : What we need is a law, so a feller can see his girl every night. 1912
Children
Children and politics
Sailors
United States--Texas--Jacksboro
This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a young girl wearing a sailor suit and smiling as she bangs a gavel on a "Votes for Wimmen" soap box.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. T.N. Weeks Jacksboro, Texas, and postmarked March 17, [1913?]. The message reads:
"Dear Mrs. Weeks: Please hurry and come back home. It is so lonesome without you. Mr. D. wrote me you [obstructed word] had an awfully good time in Dallas. I know you are enjoying your visit home. But don't stay too long, for this 'old maid' is lonesome without her pal. Best wishes to you both."
Written on the front, under the inscription is: "Isn't it so?"
Shinn, Cobb K.
New York : T.P. Co.
1912
Susan B. Anthony Gavel, Smithsonian Series. [Circa 1970-1975]
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Gavels
International Council of Women. Convention
National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
Faux-ivory gavel with three sterling silver bands, and a turned rosewood handle and knop end. The display box originally sold with the gavel was missing at the time of purchase.
The engraved inscriptions on both flat hammer ends read: "Nat'l Woman Suffrage Ass'n March 25th 1888" and "Order is Heavens first Law."
This gavel is a replica of the one given to Susan B. Anthony at the first convention of the International Council of Women in Washington, D.C. from March 25th to April 1, 1888, which was assembled by Anthony and other leaders of the National Woman Suffrage Association. The original gavel is in the National Museum of American History.
Baltimore, M.D. : Stieff Company
[Circa 1970-1975]
Rosewood (wood)
English
MEMR.1970.01
Washington, D.C.