Postcard : I'd rather kiss her, than hear her talk. [1912]
Children
Children and politics
Kissing
Sailors
United States--Pennsylvania--Wallingford
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 Wimmen" sign.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Mary Barndolla Wallingford Pennsylvania, and postmarked April 23, 1913 and April 24, 1913. The message reads: "Oh! You spring. Doing a little business."
Shinn, Cobb K.
New York : T.P. Co.
[1912]
Postcard : De suffragette upon her box darns der men, but not der sox. 1913
Children
Children and politics
Dutch
United States--Pennsylvania--Markleysburg
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: "Dear Stella. Will start for Easton in the morning. My address will be 721 Coleman St. Easton Pa. Please write soon. M.L.
Rochester, N.Y. : Walker's Post Card Shop
1913
Pamphlet : What is the Constitution of the United States Worth to American women? Address delivered before the Lawyers Civic Association of Maryland. [1949]
Brown, Helen Elizabeth
Constitution (United States)
Lawyers Civic Association of Maryland
United States--Constitution
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Brown, Helen Elizabeth
[Baltimore?] : [publisher not identified]
[1949]
7 p.
English
DOCU.1949.01
Pamphlet : Rhode Island Women: address of Mrs. E.B. Chace before the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association in October, 1891; revised and corrected according to new legislation in legislature in 1893
Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association
Woman --Suffrage --Rhode Island
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.
Chace, Elizabeth Buffum, 1806-1899
Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association
1893
6 p.
English
ALMS.1893.02
Rhode Island
Pamphlet : Address of May Wright Sewall, president of the National Council of Women at the opening of the second triennial session of the National Council of Women, Washington, D.C. February 18, 1895.
National Council of Women of the United States. Convention
Sewall-May Wright 1844-1920
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Women -- United States -- Congresses
Women's rights -- United States -- Congresses
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 the second president of the National Council of Women of the United States, following Frances E. Willard.
In her address, Sewall discusses the Council's efforts on behalf of women to reform divorce laws and work for equal pay for equal work by the Government.
Sewall-May Wright 1844-1920
Washington, D.C. : Stormont & Jackson, Printers
1895
32 p.
English
DOCU.1895.01
February 18, 1895 to March 2, 1895
Leaflet : Women and the state. Woman Suffrage Leaflet. Vol. 4, No. 12. December 1891
Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
Woman --Suffrage --Massachusetts
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 (1869-1877) and then the U.S. Senate (1877-1904).
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904
Boston : The Woman's Journal
1891-12
4 p.
English
DOCU.1891.03
Boston, Massachusetts
Leaflet : To the women voters of the United States from the women in political bondage : vote the Progressive Ticket and make us free. [1912]
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Campaign literature
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1912)
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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 secure social and industrial justice."
Includes the speech of Jane Addams seconding the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt and a letter from Roosevelt to Jane Addams written on August 8, 1912.
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1912)
New York : Stoddard-Sutherland Press
[Circa 1912]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1912.07
Leaflet : The St. Louis Star, June 17, 1896; Bravo! Mrs. Crannell. [Circa 1896-1900]
Albany Anti-Suffrage Association
Anti-suffrage
Crannell, Elizabeth Walker Shaule, -1936
Republican National Convention. Committee on Resolutions
Saint Louis (Mo.)
Speeches, addresses, etc.
United States--Politics and government
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
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 was reprinted by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association, more formally referred to as the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
St. Louis Star (St. Louis, Mo.)
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1896-1900]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.62
Leaflet : Equality for women the country's need: an address delivered by James M. Curley, Mayor of the City of Boston. October 16, 1915
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958
Social reform
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
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 opposition and seen as potentially destructive to the country. He also refutes the idea that women's votes will be based on sentiment rather than sound judgement.
Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958
1915
4 p.
English
DOCU.1915.13
Leaflet : Address of Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell, chairman of the Executive Committee of the 3rd Judicial District of the state of New York, before the the Committee on Resolutions of the Republican National Convention at St. Louis, June 16, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Anti-suffrage
Constitutional amendments
Pay equity
Republican National Convention. Committee on Resolutions
Saint Louis (Mo.)
Speeches, addresses, etc.
United States--Politics and government
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women--United States--Political activity
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Address delivered by Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York, in opposition to any action on the woman suffrage amendment.
She counters arguments regarding equal pay, taxation without representation, and the military. She is responding to a statement made to the same committee by a Mrs. Blake.
Reprinted by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
Crannell, Elizabeth Walker Shaule, -1936
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1896-1900]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1000.59