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Using excerpts from a pro-suffrage speech by Congressman Edward T. Taylor, of Colorado, where women were granted full suffrage in 1893, he answers common questions about the impact of woman suffrage in his state. These issues include whether or not…

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Flier published by the Empire State Campaign Committee in advance of the 1915 election in New York contains statistics and arguments about women's suffrage, including the number of women who want the right to vote, the number of women already able to…

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Reprint of text originally written by Katharine Houghton Hepburn for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

It was distributed by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Organization to lobby for the upcoming referendum on woman's suffrage. The…

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Yellow, black and blue poster stamp with a map of the United States indicating where women have the vote.

This was one of two versions created, one for the 1915 Pennsylvania referendum, and this generic one, intended for national distribution.

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Solicitation letter from Deborah K. Livingston, Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association to Edward Merrill, Maine State Senator and a member of the executive committee of the Men's Equal Suffrage League, to fund the…

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Letter written "to the people of Massachusetts" by Francis C. Lowell, Chairman, and Charles R. Saunders, Secretary, of the Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. The letter analyzed the results of the 1895 non-binding referendum concerning municipal…

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Pamphlet addresses working men as a "big factor" in the upcoming election and appeals to their understanding of having to work hard to win the right to vote.

In 1917, Michigan women were granted the right to vote in presidential elections. In…

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List issued by the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association to demonstrate existing support for the woman suffrage amendment to be voted on in the upcoming election on October 19, 1915. The list included Thomas Edison, John Cotton Dana, several…

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Blue and white pamphlet sealed with 1916 American Red Cross Christmas stamps, entitled "Do You Know?"

The pamphlet includes a list of facts detailing women's efforts to gain the right to vote throughout the country, and the reasons why women…
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