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Ticket for admission to a speech given by Tennessee Claflin under the auspices of the Society for the Betterment of the Race, at Carnegie Hall in New York. Claflin was the only speaker at the event, where she spoke about women's…

POST-1912-03 Cobb X Shinn Series Rather Kiss Her.jpg
This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a girl speaking on a soap box as a boy wearing a sailor suit looks off, smiling. In the background, is a "Votes fur…

DOCU-1895-01 May Wright Sewall Address.jpg
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 as a part of the International Council of Women, a new organization intended to establish connections between women's rights organizations across the world. May Wright Sewall was…

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Campaign leaflet from the "women of the Progressive party", urging people to vote for the Party because of its support for woman suffrage and women's leadership. On the back is the Progressive Party platform "to secure rule of the people" and "to…

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Two speeches given by famed abolitionist and orator, Wendell Phillips. The first is entitled "The Lesson of the Hour." The second, entitled "Progress" was addressed to the twenty-eighth Congregational Society. In the second, Phillips discusses the…

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Business card for Louis W. Jaugh Sample Room in Buffalo, New York. One side contains the text of a speech given at a suffrage meeting and the other side contains the contact information for the business.

This speech was also reprinted on postcards…

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Inscribed with author's presentation slip: "To Miss Edna Farr compliments of Thomas Holmes"

The Rev. Thomas Holmes, D.D. was a pastor and educator, who became the president of Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana from 1865 until 1875. The…

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A reprint of an address made by Senator George F. Hoar in support of woman's suffrage, during a convention held in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 24, 1891.

Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…

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Reprint of an address by James Curley, mayor of Boston from 1914-1919, at Mechanics Hall. Curley argues that most reform laws, including improved labor laws, extension of the school age, public health laws, and employee pension were all met with…
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