Postcard : At last wifey wears the pants. [Circa 1909-1915]
Clothing and dress
Gender roles
Husband and wife
Marriage
Cartoon illustration of a short man standing in a barrel in shock as a woman walks by. She is wearing pants and a large hat, carrying a golf club, and smoking.
[Wellman, Walter]
[Circa 1909-1915]
Postcard : I'm neutral. [Circa 1910-1917]
Husband and wife
Marriage
United States--Colorado--Kremmling
United States--Kansas--Brewster
Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.
Cartoon illustration of a man running away from two women who are arguing. The women, one labeled "Friend Wife" and the other "My Mother-In-Law" both say "Am I not right, George?" The man carries a banner that reads, "I'm Neutral."
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Marian Patterson Brewster, Kansas, Lock Box 13, and postmarked March 12, 1919. The message reads: "Troublesome, Colorado / March 4th, 1919 / Dear Marian:- / I will drop you a few lines, as I suppose you got my card I sent you. / We have all been sick but mamma. My Dad was in bed a week and I have got the earache. / From Pauline."
[Wilf?]
[Circa 1910-1917]
Postcard : I am neutral. [Circa 1910-1917]
Husband and wife
Marriage
United States--Colorado--Kremmling
United States--Kansas--Brewster
Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.
Cartoon illustration of a man hiding in a closet while two women argue in the kitchen. One woman says "I'm me own boss, see!" and the other says "You must do as I say!" The man is holding a banner with the slogan "I am neutral."
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Marian Patterson Brewster, Kansas, Lock Box 13, and postmarked March 12, 1919. The message reads: "Troublesome, Colorado / March 4th, 1919 / Well I hope you got all the cards and hope you like them. I will try and get some different ones if I can as I don't much care for these. From, Pauline"
[Wilf?]
[Circa 1910-1917]
Postcard : I am neutral. [Circa 1910-1917]
Husband and wife
Marriage
United States--Colorado--Kremmling
United States--Kansas--Brewster
Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.
Cartoon illustration of a man running away from two women who are arguing. One of the women carries a banner that reads, "Votes for women" while the other carries a banner that reads, "Anti-." The man carries a banner that says, "I am neutral." A dog moves out of the way of the man as he runs.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Marian Patterson Brewster, Kansas, Lock Box 13, and postmarked March 22, 1919. The message reads: "March 21st, 1919 / Troublesome, Colo. / Dear Marian:- / Well I am sending you three different kinds of cards / this one is worst of all but it is the last one I got and believe me it will be the last one for a while of this kind any way. Answer soon. From Pauline."
[Wilf?]
[Circa 1910-1917]
Leaflet : Woman has many advantages : what she would lose should her demand for equal rights be granted : to the editor of the New York times. March 28, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Albany Anti-Suffrage Association
Anti-suffrage
United States--New York--Albany
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Letter to the editor of the New York Times by author identified only as "A.P.P." The author argues that if women are granted equal rights, they may lose many of the rights they have already gained, including property, guardianship of children, marriage, and the right to keep her own wages.
The letter has been reprinted for distribution by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association, also known as the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
A.P.P.
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1896-1900]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1000.50
Flier : To the men and women of New York. Empire State Campaign Committee. [1915]
Anti-suffrage
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Constitutional amendments
Elections
Empire State Campaign Committee
Free love
Marriage
Homemakers
Women--Suffrage--New York
Statement issued by Carrie Chapman Catt to repudiate anti-suffrage rhetoric that woman suffrage leaders are "advocates of free love, the abolition of marriage, [and] the elimination of the home."
The Empire State Campaign Committee was a coalition of organizations, including the Women's Suffrage Party, the Women's Suffrage Association, the Women's Political Union and other similar organizations, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt. It was created to bring New York women together in support of the state woman suffrage amendment. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Empire State Campaign Committee
New York : Empire State Campaign Committee
[1915]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1915.25
Leaflet : To the Hon. Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. [Circa 1895-1896]
Anti-suffrage
Blair, Henry W. (Henry William), 1834-1920
Corbin, Caroline Fairfield, 1835-1918
United States--New York--Albany
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Letter written by Caroline Corbin, founder of the Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women to Senator Henry W. Blair in response to his report to the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, delivered to the Senate on December 8, 1886. She chastises Blair for misquoting her and for his support of woman suffrage, and argues that suffrage would diminsh women's role in the home and with her family.
Reprinted by the Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
Corbin, Caroline Fairfield, 1835-1918, creator
Blair, Henry W. (Henry William), 1834-1920
Albany, N.Y. : Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York
[Circa 1895-1896]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1000.88
Tract : Legal disabilities of married women in Connecticut. 1871
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
Custody of children--Connecticut
Married women --Legal status, laws, etc.
Married women --Legal status, laws, etc. --Connecticut
Marital property
Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
Series: Tracts of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association No. 1 The author discusses the common law that exists in Connecticut to define the legal relationship between husband and wife within the state. He divides the essay into three subject areas: <br /><ul><li>The wife's personal subjection to the husband</li>
<li>Her want of legal authority over their children</li>
<li>Her property</li>
</ul>
Hickox, George A.
Hartford, Conn. : Case, Lockwood & Brainard
1871
40 p.
English
ALMS.1871.01
Hartford, Connecticut
Postcard : "Once-I-get my liberty, no-more-wedding-bells-for-me!"
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Housekeeping
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Social role
United States--Pennsylvania--Cowanesque
A woman leaves her home. Her husband, holding a bucket and scrub brush, is left to care for the home and the children. A "Votes for women" sign is hanging on the wall.
The quote on the postcard is from the song "I'm on my way to Reno", written by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz in 1910.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. Lee Skinner in Cowanesque, Pennsylvania, and postmarked April 7, 1911. There is no message written on the card.
Hobson, C.
1910
Pamphlet : Twenty Questions about the Federal Amendment proposed by the National Woman's Party. January 1922
Equal Rights Amendment
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932
Marriage
National Consumers' League
National Woman's Party
Women--Employment--1920-1930
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- Controversial literature.
Florence Kelley, head of the National Consumers' League, outlines the League's objections to the Equal Rights Amendment focusing on how protections offered by present laws would be diminished or nullified by the ERA.
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932
New York : National Consumers League
1922
7 p.
English
DOCU.1922.02