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Answers the question "isn't it true" to issues that support women being granted the right to vote.

The South Dakota Universal Franchise League was organized in 1911 by Mary Shields ("Mamie") Pyle. South Dakota granted women the right to vote in…

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Essay written by an unidentified author who argues against women's suffrage and discusses the importance of gender roles,

The author makes reference to England and Prime Minister William Gladstone.

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Reprinted from the Los Angeles Graphic, author Clifford Howard discusses the economic necessity for woman suffrage, and the transformation in the social, political, and economic role of women in the home and community that make it necessary for her…

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Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 5, features a woman dressed as a police officer, holding a rolling pin, with a small dog at her side.
She is…

POST-1909-05-2 Suffrage Series No 5.jpg
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 5, features a woman dressed as a police officer, holding a rolling pin, with a small dog at her side.
She is…

POST-1914-15 Votes for Wimmen Series Womans Place.jpg
Part of a series of postcards.

This card features a full color illustration of a young girl and boy standing above a girl doll in a baby bed and a boy doll thrown on the floor facedown. The girl is wearing a "Votes for Women" sash and holding a…

POST-1914-20 Votes for Women Chalkbord.jpg
This card features a full color illustration of a young girl painting "Give us our rites" on wall. She has also drawn a man hanging from a noose, the Statue of Liberty, and the slogan "Votes for Wimen." Behind her are an overturned baby carriage and…

POST-1909-13 The Suffragette Series Generaless.jpg
This card, Number 4015, is part of a sixteen-card series, featuring attractive women attempting to act as men. In this illustration, the woman appears in an evening gown as the "Generaless of the Army" with the message: "If you were the enemy, would…

POST-1909-14 The Suffragette Series Senatoress.jpg
This card, Number 4003, is part of a sixteen-card series, featuring attractive women attempting to act as men. In this illustration, the woman candidate for Senate appears in an evening gown. She is pointing to a letter that outlines her campaign…

POST-1909-15 The Suffragette Series Leter Carrier.jpg
This card, Number 4002, is part of a sixteen-card series, featuring attractive women attempting to act as men. In this illustration, the woman is delivering the mail in a skirt and heels, holding a dog on a leash, as she delivers the mail. The…
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