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Monthly newsletter published by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.

Presents reasons why women are opposed to giving women the right to vote, and serves as an instructional manual for anti-suffragists to learn public speaking and debate.

Reprint of Julia Ward Howe's address on suffrage at the May Festival of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. The New England Woman Suffrage Association was formed in November, 1868, with Julia Ward Howe as president. The Association's annual…

The pamphlet is inscribed along the top: "Compliments of Clement K. Fay."
In 1887, a hearing was held to consider enacting a law securing municipal suffrage for women in Massachusetts. Clement K. Fay spoke for the opposition. The bill was not…

William Bowditch was a conveyancer, a lawyer specializing in buying and selling property, in Boston. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and served as a selectman and moderator of Town Meetings for a number of years. He was a well-known abolitionist…

The pamphlet, addressed "to the men of Massachusetts" provides detailed arguments against woman suffrage. Sections include: "The vote not a natural right" "A privilege with a heavy obligation" "The net result of woman suffrage a loss to women and to…

Originally published in the Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly, April, 1917

Pledge card issued by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. The headquarters were located at 585 Boylston Street, Room 12 in Boston.

Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Serie No. 67. The illustration shows a family dressed as hens and roosters. The mom is wearing a "Suffragette Votes for Women" sash and a large hat. She is staring at her husband as he yells at her,…

This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a girl kissing a boy who is wearing a sailor suit. She is holding a "Votes for Wimmen" flag, and they are standing…