Article on woman suffrage introduced in United States Senate by Hon. James E. Martine, Senator from the state of New Jersey. February 25, 1915
Senator James Martine, of New Jersey presents an article from the District of Columbia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage presenting with facts on the negative impact of women voters in states where women were granted the right to vote.
The essay addresses the impact of woman suffrage on taxation, prohibition, schools, working women, war, rural communities, failure of women to vote when given the ballot, and the idea that woman suffrage is undemocratic.
Martine, James Edgar, 1850-1925
Washington, D.C. : [s.n.]
1915
DOCU.1915.11
14 p.
English
DOCU.1915.10
Letter and envelope : County Chairman [Iowa Equal Suffrage Association?] to a school teacher. March 18, 1916
Black Hawk County (Iowa)
Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Survey
Voting--Iowa
Women--Suffrage--Iowa
Letter most likely sent to teachers throughout Black Hawk County asks the recipient to conduct a survey of men in their school district on how they intend to vote on the suffrage referendum in the upcoming election on June 5th. The referendum did not pass.
This particular letter went to Miss Loraney Smith in Jesup, Iowa (Black Hawk County) on March 21, 1916. Also enclosed with the letter was information on the Black Hawk County Suffrage Campaign Committee, Rural School Contest. See item #
1916-03-18
1 p.
English
DOCU.1916.07
Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Black Hawk County [Iowa] Suffrage Campaign Committee, Rural School Contest. 1916
Black Hawk County (Iowa)
Black Hawk County Suffrage Campaign Committee
Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Survey
Voting--Iowa
Women--Suffrage--Iowa
Terms for a contest sponsored by the Black Hawk Country Suffrage Campaign Committee for the "rural school puils of Black Hawk County who will write the best letters containing the greatest number of best reasons why women should be given the privilege to vote." The Committee offered cash prizes to the the five best letters and the ten second best letters.
This page, along with a letter to the recipient, were enclosed in an envelope from Cedar Falls, Iowa to Miss Loraney Smith, Jesup, Iowa, March 21, 1916. See item #
1916-03
1 p.
English
DOCU.1916.08
Black Hawk County (Iowa)
Article on woman suffrage introduced in the United States Senate by Hon. Thomas B. Catron, Senator from the state of New Mexico. February 19, 1917
Anti-suffrage
Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Constitutional amendments
Women--Suffrage--New Mexico
Article, written by Senator Thomas B. Catron, in opposition to a federal suffrage amendment.
Contents include:
Failure of women to vote when given the ballot
The women's vote for president
Taxation and woman suffrage
Prohibition and woman suffrage
Schools and playgrounds
Vice not suppressed where women vote
War and woman suffrage
Wage-earning women and woman suffrage
Woman suffrage undemocratic
Woman suffrage not an inherent right
Women as office seekers
Rural communities and woman suffrage
Women as jurors in woman suffrage states
Feminism and socialism
Woman suffrage and divorce
Woman suffrage unjust
Population, not territory, counts
High cost of woman suffrage
Defeats of woman suffrage
Opinions of eminent men against woman suffrage.
Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office
1917
16 p.
English
DOCU.1917.12
Pamphlet : The New Look. CIO Political Action Committee. [Circa 1942-1945]
Campaign literature
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
United States--Politics and government--1940-1950
Voting
Campaign literature that uses a popular slogan, "the new look" as a way to encourage women to vote. The pamphlet contains photographs and facts about the conditions for families before and after women had the right to vote, outlines the work still to be done to improve conditions and provides information on how women can do their part by voting in elections and educating their husbands on who to vote for, and using the local political action committee as a resource.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations was founded in 1928 as a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada. The CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955. The CIO PAC was established in 1942.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
Washington, D.C. : Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee
[Circa 1942-1945]
15 p.
English
Circular : Do teachers need the ballot? / by Alice Stone Blackwell. 1913
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
Education
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Pay equity
Teachers--Salaries, etc.
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Alice Stone Blackwell discusses the the amount of money appropritated for education and the difference in teacher's salaries in suffrage versus non-suffrage states.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars written by well-known activists on the social, political, and economic reasons why women should be granted the right to vote. The circulars, along with novelties such as buttons, stationery, playing cards and other materials to advertise the suffrage movement, were included in a mail-order "Catalog of Suffrage Literature and Supplies" produced by the NAWSA Literature Committee.
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National American Woman Suffrage Association
[Circa 1913-1915]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1000.110