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Clipping : "Asks Honest Count of Vote / Dr. Shaw says result will then be satisfactory." March 31, 1913
Account of a speech given by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, held at the National Guard armory in Bay City, Michigan.
Clipping : "Pinchot Talks for Bull Moose; Miss Carpenter and Congressman Woodruff, Too." March 31, 1913
News article about a meeting of the Bull Moose party held at the National Guard armory in Bay City, Michigan. Massachusetts suffragist and Progressive Party organizer, Alice Carpenter, addressed the issue of woman's suffrage during the meeting.
Clipping : "Ferris Favors Equal Suffrage / Governor believes state would be better if women voted." April 1, 1916
Article prints a statement made by Governor Woodbridge Ferris, of Michigan, in answer to the question: "What will woman do when she has the right to vote?"
Clipping : "Women Who Lead in Fight for the Ballot." November 16, 1916
Photograph of the Board of the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association :
Mrs. Orton H. Clark, Kalamazoo, President
Dr. Blanche M. Haines, Three Rivers, First Vice President
Miss Harriet Comstock, Alpena, Third Vice President
Mrs. John C. Brander,…
Mrs. Orton H. Clark, Kalamazoo, President
Dr. Blanche M. Haines, Three Rivers, First Vice President
Miss Harriet Comstock, Alpena, Third Vice President
Mrs. John C. Brander,…
Clipping : "Favors Suffrage" by A.C. Monroe. [Circa 1913-1918]
Brief opinion piece advocating for woman's suffrage in Michigan.
Leaflet. Vote for suffrage, April 7. Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association. 1913
Urges readers to vote for the suffrage amendment in the upcoming election on April 7, 1913. Reprints an editorial from the Lansing State Journal about the composition of the Detroit anti-suffrage movement as primarily social leaders who were a part…
Authorization by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association to be a "challenger" during the election. 1912
Blank form created by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, to be signed by the acting president of the Bay City Equal Suffrage Assocaiton, to authorize individuals appointed by the organization as "challengers" to polling places during the…
Leaflet : "Women have no time for politics" Vote to give HER the ballot in Michigan. [1912]
Series of fliers urging voters to grant women the vote in Michigan in the upcoming election. The fliers compares the amount of time women spend out of the house working to the amount of time she would spend on politics and argues for suffrage as a…
Flier : Is there any question about the liquor interests opposing woman suffrage? Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association. [1913]
Response by the Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association to anti-suffrage papers being distributed by saloon keepers and breweries in advance of the April 7, 1913 election. The message was to vote against the woman suffrage question because it would…
Flier : Why Michigan lost the equal suffrage amendment in 1912. [1913]
Discusses the results of the 1912 election in Michigan, when the woman suffrage amendment was defeated, and the reasons for this result. According to the information provided, the amendment passed, but was nullified by "political manipulation" and…