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Postcard : A woman's place is in her home. [Circa 1909-1913]
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…
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…
Postcard : Valentine Greetings. 1913
Valentine's Day card featuring illustrations of animated vegetables, surrounding the anti-suffrage poem.
This card was addressed to Miss Sallie Gray in Warrenton, Ohio, and postmarked February 13, 1915.
This card was addressed to Miss Sallie Gray in Warrenton, Ohio, and postmarked February 13, 1915.
Flier : To a Modern Woman. 1920
Caricature of a woman wearing a "Women's Rights" sash, holding a ballot. On one side are her children and on the other, the ballot box. Along the top are a series of voting booths, showing only the lower portion with people's legs and feet.
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Clipping : "Suffrage Notes." [Charlotte Tribune.] [Circa 1912]
Column, entitled "Suffrage Notes." The author describes a talk given by Herbert Miller, Professor of Sociology at Olivet College, in support of votes for women.
Circular : Why the housekeeper needs the vote. / by Anne O'Hagan. [Circa 1913-1915]
Reprinted from Smith's Magazine, housekeeper, Anne O'Hagan argues that housekeepers and homemakers need the right to vote because of their concern for tenement house laws, safe and pure food laws, building codes, and other issues related to safety in…
Flier : Women in the home. [Circa 1915-1917]
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.
Pamphlet : Why the home makers do not want to vote
The author makes the argument against women's suffrage that in order to preserve and advance family life and happiness in the home, women should focus entirely on their work in the home and leave political participation to the wage-earning…
Circular : Woman's place. / by Mary Alden Hopkins. 1913
Originally published under the title "Boundaries of Home," in "The Congregationalist", Mary Alden Hopkins argues that the nation needs both a mother and a father to ensure all important issues are addressed, including food safety, sanitation, clean…
Leaflet : The bulwark of indifference. [Circa 1896-1900]
Article written by author identified only as "F.R.S." The author discusses the idea that women are indifferent to voting because of the expanded employment opportunities open to them and the fact that homemakers do not desire the vote.
Circular : Business versus the home. / by Caroline Bartlett Crane. [Circa 1913-1915
Caroline Bartlett Crane, journalist, educator, and Unitarian minister, argues and provides examples of ways in which business interests are given legal and political preference over the interests of the home.
The verso also contains a list of…
The verso also contains a list of…