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Leaflet : "The New Woman" and the problems of the day. [Circa 1896-1897]
Reprint of an article published in "Appleton's Popular Science Monthly" by the Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York, in response to a recent essay entitled "The New Woman", written by Ouida.
Pamphlet : Dignity of Womanhood. Bulletin No. 11. [March 1912]
This anti-suffrage leaflet makes the argument that women should serve as the moral and spiritual inspiration to men by working to be the best possible mothers to their sons, thus making men well-informed and effective voters.
Broadside : The Negro and the new social order (Extracts from the Messenger). [1919]
The broadside, published by the Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama contains excerpts from "The Negro and the New Social Order," published in The Messenger, a magazine founded in 1917 by A. Phillip Randolph and Chandler Owen as the…
Bulletin of the National League of Women Voters
Volume 3, No. 7. January, 1930
This issue includes information on the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, international measures of interest to the League, marriage laws in the South, new publications, and domicile, inheritance, and jury service.…
Circular : A few leading questions. [Circa 1913-1915]
Questions and answers addressing marital rights,child custody rights, property rights, taxation, education, whether women would vote if granted the privilege, and why women want to vote.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a…
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a…
Circular : What difference does it make to the woman. / by Ellis Meredith. [Circa 1913-1915]
Portion of an article written by journalist and writer, Ellis Meredith, entitled "The Struggle for Equal Rights" originally published in "Pictorial Review." Meredith enumerates the ways in which the lack of suffrage impacts women, including marriage…
Pamphlet : Twenty Questions about the Federal Amendment proposed by the National Woman's Party. January 1922
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.
Postcard : "Once-I-get my liberty, no-more-wedding-bells-for-me!"
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…
The quote on the postcard is from the song "I'm on my way to Reno", written by…
Tract : Legal disabilities of married women in Connecticut. 1871
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…