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This sample pink ballot was sent out by the Political Equality League of Wisconsin, one or two days prior to the 1912 election to those who signed pledge cards in support of suffrage, about the color of the ballot and how to complete it.

During…

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Answers all questions about the impact of war with the answer, "women."

Pennsylvania voters rejected the 1915 referendum to grant women of the state the right to vote. On June 24, 1919, Pennsylvania became the seventh state to ratify the 19th…

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Facts about the various laws passed within the eleven states that had woman suffrage in 1915 to demonstrate the progress made when women are granted the right to vote. Laws passed in these states included equal guardianship of children; eight-hour…

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Advertisement for the Liberty Bell Campaign by the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. This campaign was created to lobby for a state suffrage referendum in 1915. Suffragists commissioned a replica of the Liberty Bell, known as the "Justice…

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This pamphlet was created to lobby for the upcoming suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania. Held November 2, 1915, Pennsylvania voters defeated the suffrage amendment by a margin of 55,000 (out of 800,000 votes cast).…

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In preparation for the November 3rd referendum, the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association published this flier with statistics on the number of "farm women" and "organized women" in support of suffrage, and a copy of the amendments that would appear on the…

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Brass watch fob shaped like the Liberty Bell (no attached strap). On the back are the words "Woman's Liberty Bell-Justice-Equality 1915 Pennsylvania."

This piece was created during the Pennsylvania Liberty Bell Campaign to pass a state suffrage…

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Blue and white pinback button with the appeal to "Let Mother Vote" inside an outline of the state of Ohio. This button was issued in 1911 when the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association was lobbying voters for an upcoming woman's suffrage referendum. The…

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Black on gold pinback button with the image of a woman standing in the foreground holding wheat in one hand and arrows in the other hand, the sun and mountains behind her, with the appeal "Let Ohio Women Vote."

Issued early in 1911 before…

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White on blue on white pinback button with the Pennsylvania keystone in the center with the "Votes for Women" banner.

This piece was created during the campaign to pass a women's suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania in 1915.

White backpaper…
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