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POST-1915-07 Suffrage Amemdment Stamp.jpg
Stamp created for the referenda held in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania on November 2, 1915. The stamp contains a picture of Cora Anderson Carpenter, a flag bearer from 1913, standing in front of the United States Capitol.

POST-1909-21 In a case like this.jpg
Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series 680. The color illustration shows a man, wearing a nurse's bonnet feeding a baby through a tube. A woman can be seen through a window marching with a "vote for women" placard.

On the…

POST-1913-21 Darns men not sox.jpg
Gray illustration of a Dutch girl standing on a soap box, holding a "Votes for Women" flag.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Estella C [Listes?] Markleysburg Fayette Co. Pennsylvania, and postmarked May 19, 1914. The message reads:…

DOCU.1917.26.jpg
Letter from Andrew Brodbeck, Congressman from Pennsylvania, to Mrs. A.A. Holden regarding the woman suffrage amendment and the National Woman's Party pickets of the White House.

In 1917, the National Woman's Party, founded by Alice Paul, targeted…

PERI-1920-06a Public Ledger Philadelphia above.jpg
This issue contains the article: "Tennessee Vote Last Suffrage Chance for Year / Final action, Probable Today, Prevented Yesterday by Unexpected Adjournment / Winning Side Likely to Get at Least 50 votes / North Carolina Senate Postpones Settlement…

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,"…

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…

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.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…

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.…
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