United States --Pennsylvania --Harrisburg
Women --Suffrage --Pennsylvania]]>

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).

In June 1919, Pennsylvania was among the first states to ratify the nineteenth amendment.]]>
Methodist Episcopal churches--New Jersey
Prohibition--New Jersey
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey]]>

The flier features several short articles highlighting pro and anti opinions on women's suffrage, including including evangelist, "Billy" Sunday, former city counsel Jim Nugent, New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Church, and the liquor industry. Anti-suffragists argued that women would crack down on the liquor trade.

The measure lost 58% to 42%.]]>
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
State action (Civil rights)--United States
States' rights (American politics)
Statistics
Taxation
Votes for women
Women--Social and moral questions
Women--Suffrage--Colorado
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's rights--New York (state)]]>

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 should be granted the right to vote in New York's upcoming election on November 6, 1917.

New York voters passed the suffrage amendment by 102,353 votes. North Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Michigan, New York, and Arkansas all granted women suffrage in 1917.

Handwritten after the title are the words "without looking in" and on the back is written "or what the result will be? SBA"]]>
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, used the rising sun as the campaign's emblem. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.]]>
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, used the rising sun as the campaign's emblem. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer.]]>
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Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

This button was most likely issued during the Empire State campaign to lobby New York voters to approve a woman suffrage amendment on November 2, 1915. The New York referendum was defeated in 1915 but passed two years later in November 1917.

The name of the manufacturer is inscribed on the back of the button.]]>
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Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania held referendums on woman suffrage in November 1915.]]>
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Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania held referendums on woman suffrage in November 1915.]]>
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Women--Suffrage--Iowa]]>

This button may have been used in Iowa during the 1916 suffrage referendum. The referendum failed to pass at that time, but Iowa became the tenth state to ratify the the 19th Amendment when it was passed by Congress in 1919.]]>
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Printed on the back are the name of the manufacturer and the Lowell union bug.]]>