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Button and Ribbon : I cast my first vote. [1920]
Gold fabric-covered button with attached gold ribbon, both with black printed text.
The pin reads: "Under the 19th amendment I cast my first vote Nov. 2nd, 1920."
The ribbon reads: "Harding Coolidge the straight Republican ticket Lancaster,…
The pin reads: "Under the 19th amendment I cast my first vote Nov. 2nd, 1920."
The ribbon reads: "Harding Coolidge the straight Republican ticket Lancaster,…
Cloth rose button and ribbon : I cast my first vote. [1921]
Pink paper rose with green stem and a picture of the candidate, Horace E. Kennedy, in the center. The rose is attached to a yellow ribbon with black printed text: "I cast my first vote at a municipal election in the red rose city for Kennedy and the…
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.
Booklet : Ten little suffergets. [Circa 1910-1915]
The Potsville, Pennsylvania branch of the Pomeroy's Department Store published this anti-suffrage booklet that tells the story of ten little girls holding up various suffrage banners and one by one they are diverted from their task, leaving none.…
Pamphlet : Do you know "all the reasons why the ballot should not be granted to women?" Here's the answer. 1915
Sixteen pages are left blank.
This pamphlet was created to lobby for the upcoming suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania. Held November 2, 1915, Pennsylvania voters defeated the suffrage amendment by a margin of 55,000 (out of 800,000 votes cast).…
This pamphlet was created to lobby for the upcoming suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania. Held November 2, 1915, Pennsylvania voters defeated the suffrage amendment by a margin of 55,000 (out of 800,000 votes cast).…