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Flier : The Next President. Empire State Campaign Committee. [Circa 1914-1915]
Provides information about the ten states where women are eligible to vote for President in the next presidential election, and asks New York men to grant New York women the right to vote in the upcoming election on in November 1915.
The Empire…
The Empire…
Flier : Vote for the amendment in 1915. Empire State Campaign Committee. 1915
Flier published by the Empire State Campaign Committee in advance of the 1915 election in New York contains a cartoon by Art Young depicting a "Suffragist" standing at a chalkboard quizzing an "Anti-Suffragist." The question written on the blackboard…
Flier : Women vote in the yellow states, why not in the state of Massachusetts? 1915
Color flier speaks directly to the men of Massachusetts and argues that Massachusetts women should have the same right to vote for President as the women in the twelve states that granted women suffrage. Small map along the top indicates the states…
Hand Held Fan : Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes, [1916]
Yellow square cardboard fan with black print attached to a wooden dowel.
On the front are pictures of the two presidential candidates, "Mr. Hughes" and "Pres. Wilson."
The reverse side contains quotes that address their individual positions…
On the front are pictures of the two presidential candidates, "Mr. Hughes" and "Pres. Wilson."
The reverse side contains quotes that address their individual positions…
Handbill : Afro-Americans : Stop! Read! Think! [1912]
Campaign literature distributed by the Woman's Department of the Republican National Committee during the 1912 presidential election. The flier urged African Americans to vote for incumbent President Taft over former President Theodore Roosevelt or…
Leaflet : Prohibition and Woman Suffrage. March 16, 1897. [Circa 1897-1900]
Brief statement written by Mrs. W. Winslow (Elizabeth) Crannell refuting the suffrage argument that women voters would work for "prohibitory liquor laws." She reviews Colorado election statistics that appear to demonstrate that very few votes were…
National Anti-Slavery Standard. January 1843 - May 1843.
The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Lydia and David Child, abolitionists and writers,…
Postcard : Mrs. Woodhull, Broker. [Circa 1875]
Cabinet card of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, women's rights activist and speaker, and one of the first female stockbrokers. Woodhull was also the first woman to run for the office of President of the United States.
The Emancipator. Vol. 4,, no. 46, whole number 202. March 12, 1840
The Emancipator was one of several publications by the American Anti-Slavery Society. First published in May 1833 in New York City, the title of the publication changed several times, as did its editors and publishers. When Joshua Leavitt became the…
The Suffragist. (Washington, D.C.) 1917
The Suffragist was the official newspaper of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, later the National Woman's Party, from 1913 until 1921.Created to generate financial and public support for the federal suffrage amendment, the newspaper…