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Circular : Voting and fighting. / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913]
Alice Stone Blackwell addresses the idea that if women were granted the right to vote, they should also be able to fight as a soldier or a police officer. She argues that a significant portion of men are neither soldier or police officer, but still…
Circular : Do teachers need the ballot? / by Alice Stone Blackwell. 1913
Alice Stone Blackwell discusses the the amount of money appropritated for education and the difference in teacher's salaries in suffrage versus non-suffrage states.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars…
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars…
Tract : Political Equality Series. Vol. 1, No. 1. "Progress of Equal Suffrage" by Alice Stone Blackwell. October 1904
Blackwell summarizes the history of and progress toward women's suffrage from 1838 to 1903.
The Political Equality Series was a series of tracts produced by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
The Political Equality Series was a series of tracts produced by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Joint letter: Carrie Chapman Catt, Empire State Campaign Committee, and Harriet Stanton Blatch, Women's Political Union, on behalf of all organized suffragists in New York State to the members of the [NY] platform committee and democratic conference
The letter references recent activity in Pennsylvania toward woman suffrage and requests a resolution be added to the New York democratic platform advocating for a constitutional amendment granting women the right to 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…
Flier : The Real Point by Mary Ware Dennett. [Circa 1911-1915]
Mary Ware Dennett was a suffragist, artist, and advocate of birth control and sex education. She served as the field secretary for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage…
Circular : Dorothy Dix on woman's ballot. [Circa 1913-1915]
Originally published in 1908 in the "San Francisco Examiner", Dorothy Dix (pseudonym of American journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) addresses taxation, the differences between men and women, household budgets, morals, education, and other…
Leaflet : Was unjustly quoted : President Eliot of Harvard University writes a letter… October 14, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter from Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, written to Bishop William Croswell Doane, of Albany, New York, reprinted for distribution by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association.
Eliot objects to the use of a quutation from an…
Eliot objects to the use of a quutation from an…
Circular : Have we a democracy? / by Susan W. Fitzgerald. [Circa 1913-1915]
Suffragist, Susan Walker Fitzgerald argues that the United States is not a democracy because the power does not rest with the entire population. She claims that those opposed to women's suffrage are wealthier women who do not need the vote to improve…
Postcard : Starting of suffragette's parade coming up Penna. Ave. March 3, 1913-Washington, D.C. 1913
Photographic postcard of the suffrage parade held in Washington, D.C. the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Barkers 152 Union St. Jersey City, New Jersey, and postmarked June 6, 1913.…
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Barkers 152 Union St. Jersey City, New Jersey, and postmarked June 6, 1913.…