Broadside : Twelve reasons why women should vote. [Circa 1915-1917]
Children's rights
Constitutional amendments
Elections
Women--Employment
Women--Suffrage--New York
Contains twelve reasons why women should have the right to vote. This broadside was reprinted and distributed by many state organizations to lobby for state suffrage amendments.
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[Circa 1915-1917]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.30
Broadside : Logic for the business man. South Dakota Universal Franchise League. [1916]
Business
Campaign Literature
Constitutional amendments
Elections
South Dakota Universal Franchise League
Women--Suffrage--South Dakota
Appeals to businessmen by making the argument that voting for the woman suffrage amendment on November 7th is logical and "good business." The amendment lost in 1916.
The South Dakota Universal Franchise League was organized in 1911 by Mary Shields ("Mamie") Pyle. South Dakota granted women the right to vote in 1918.
South Dakota Universal Franchise League
Huron, S.D. : South Dakota Universal Franchise League
[1916]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1916.12
Broadside : Isn't it true? South Dakota Universal Franchise League. [Circa 1914-1918]
Campaign Literature
Elections
South Dakota Universal Franchise League
Women--Suffrage--South Dakota
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 1918.
South Dakota Universal Franchise League
Huron, S.D. : South Dakota Universal Franchise League
[Circa 1914-1918]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.24
Flier: Not at home. You were out today! New York State Woman Suffrage Party. Circa 1917
Ballot
Homemakers
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Women--Education
Women--Employment
Women--Suffrage--New York
Series of statements about where women go during the day, including children's school, grocery store, buying clothes, and looking for employment, and how those places are under some type of political control. The final question is: "Who controls politics? The ballot."
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[1917-05-24]
1 sheet ([1] page)
English
DOCU.1917.43.01
Leaflet : Facing facts; woman suffrage will improve the electorate in New York State. New York State Woman Suffrage Party. April 1917
Constitutional amendments
Elections
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Voting
Women--Education
Women--Suffrage--New York
Leaflet issued by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, argues that woman suffrage will benefit the state because women voters will increase the native-born vote, the proportion of educated voters, the law-abiding vote, and the powers of good.
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
1917-04
4 p.
English
DOCU.1917.34
Flier: Not at home. You were out today! New York State Woman Suffrage Party. [Circa 1917]
Ballot
Homemakers
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Women--Education
Women--Employment
Women--Suffrage--New York
Series of statements about where women go during the day, including children's school, grocery store, buying clothes, and looking for employment, and how those places are under some type of political control. The final question is: "Who controls politics? The ballot."
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[Circa 1914-1917]
1 sheet ([1] page)
English
DOCU.1917.43.02
Flier : Women in the home. [Circa 1915-1917]
Building inspection--Law and legislation
Environmental conditions
Food law and legislation
Homemakers
Housekeeping
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Public health
Sanitation
Women--Suffrage--New York
Makes the argument that if women's place is in the home and they are held responsible for the conditions in which their families' live, they should have the right to vote in order to help control those conditions.
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
New York : New York State Woman Suffrage Association
[Circa 1915-1917]
1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
DOCU.1000.114
Leaflet : The wrong of suffrage / Heloise Jamison. May, 1894. [Circa 1894-1900]
Anti-feminism
Anti-suffrage
Homemakers
Jamison, Heloise
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Reprinted "from an Article in the American Woman's Journal for May, 1894."
The author argues against women's suffrage, writing that woman's power and influence is in the home and through her family, and claiming the ballot "would be a hindrance" to that position.
Jamison, Heloise
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1894-1900]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1000.43
Circular : That "biological argument." / by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. [Circa 1913-1915]
Child labor
Food law and legislation
Homemakers
Labor laws and legislation
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Public health
Portion of an article from the Saturday Evening Post written by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, an English physician. Hutchinson argues that women's experience as homemakers is the reason they should be politically active.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars written by well-known activists on the social, political, and economic reasons why women should be granted the right to vote. The circulars, along with novelties such as buttons, stationery, playing cards and other materials to advertise the suffrage movement were included in a mail-order "Catalog of Suffrage Literature and Supplies" produced by the NAWSA Literature Committee.
Hutchinson, Woods, 1862-
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National American Woman Suffrage Association
[Circa 1913-1915]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1000.105
Clipping : Advertisement for General Electric. [The Century Magazine]. [Circa 1921-1925]
Advertisement
Electricity
General Electric Company
Homemakers
Made a connection between women's political progress and electrical progress and encouraged women to purchase small electrical appliances.
This may have been published in The Century magazine. On the reverse of the advertisement is an advertisement for The Century for August.
General Electric Company
New York : The Century Co.
[Circa 1921-1925]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.33