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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…

POST-1913-21 Darns men not sox.jpg
Gray illustration of a Dutch girl standing on a soap box, holding a "Votes for Women" flag.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Estella C [Listes?] Markleysburg Fayette Co. Pennsylvania, and postmarked May 19, 1914. The message reads:…

ALMS-1893-02 Rhode Island Women.jpg
Elizabeth Buffum Chace, one of the organizers of the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association, reflects on the history of Rhode Island and argues in favor of woman suffrage in Rhode Island.

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…

DOCU.1891.03.01.jpg
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…

DOCU.1912.07A.jpg
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…

DOCU.1000.62.jpg
Reprint of an article from the St. Louis Star praising Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell (Elizabeth Crannell) for the address she delivered the day before to the Committee on Resolutions at the Republican National Convention, held in St. Louis.

The article…

DOCU.1915.13A.jpg
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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