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ALMS-1871-02  Womans Influence in Politics.jpg
Series: Woman's Suffrage Tracts, No. 1
Beecher argues that women have natural gifts in the same way as men do and should be permitted to publicly exercise those gifts in the same way. He advocates for woman's suffrage, saying the woman's influence…

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This group of leaflets are bound together along the top and include the following: "Votes for Women a Success: the map proves it" Created by NAWSA to publicize the success of its state-by-state campaign for voting rights. This particular map was…

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Henry Brewster Stanton was an abolitionist, social reformer, writer and orator. In 1840, he married Elizabeth Cady Stanton. He was a founding member of the New York Anti-Slavery Society and joined the Free Soil Party. After the Civil War ended,…

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Series of statements about where women go during the day, including children's school, grocery store, buying clothes, and looking for employment, and how those places are under some type of political control. The final question is: "Who controls…

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Series of questions "all settled by politics and votes." The questions concerned issues that were considered of direct interest to women, including food safety regulation, education, child labor, protective labor legislation, mother's pensions, etc.

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Published by the Dulwich Conservative Association of England after the passage of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which granted the vote to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification. The Act also gave the vote to all men…

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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…

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Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 2, features a well-dressed woman handing money to two women who are in shabbier clothing.

POST-1909-09 Suffrage Series No 9.jpg
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 9, features an illustration of well-dress woman wearing a "District Leaderess" ribbon. She is standing next to a…

POST-1912-01 Cobb X Shinn Series Would I Win.jpg
This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a girl at the center wearing a "Votes for Wimmen" sash and a large hat, with two girls on either side, wearing…
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