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DOCU.1916.18.jpg
Makes the argument that men are primarily concerned with their interests and do not represent women's interests. Urges reader to vote for the woman suffrage amendment on November 7th. The amendment lost in 1916.

Pennsylvania was among the first…

POST-1912-03 Cobb X Shinn Series Rather Kiss Her.jpg
This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a girl speaking on a soap box as a boy wearing a sailor suit looks off, smiling. In the background, is a "Votes fur…

POST-1912-04 Cobb X Shinn Series You Would Get It.jpg
This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a young boy smiling as a girl, wearing a "Votes for Wimmen" sash walks toward him carrying a rose.

On the verso,…

POST-1914-18 What the Vote Has Done.jpg
This card features a full color illustration of a young girl and boy. The boy is seated, with his legs crossed, smiling. The girl is carrying two buckets, walking toward him.

The card is addressed to Miss Edith [Becheal?] 833 Broadway Beth. Pa.,…

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Constitution and by-laws for the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ALMS-1910-01 Ten Little Suffergets.JPG
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.…

MEMR.1921.01.jpg
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…

MEMR.1920.01.jpg
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,…

MEMR-1915-06 Votes for Women- Ink Blotter Card.jpg
Yellow ink blotter with black print features a picture of the Liberty Bell in the upper left corner and the words, "Woman Being Call Upon To Obey The Laws Should Have A Voice In Making Them."

This piece was created during the Pennsylvania Liberty…

BUTN.1916.01.jpg
Blue on gold celluloid pinback demands votes for both men and women.

The slogan was created by Dr. Eleanor M. Hiestand-Moore of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The button was the winning entry in a contest to replace the slogan "Votes for Women,"…
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