Pamphlet : Do You Know? 1917
Constitutional amendments
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)
Blue and white pamphlet sealed with 1916 American Red Cross Christmas stamps, entitled "Do You Know?"
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"
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
New York, N.Y. : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
1917-02
12 p.
English
ALMS.1917.01
New York, New York
Pamphlet : Municipal woman suffrage : argument of Clement K. Fay, Esq., for remonstrants. 1887
Anti-suffrage
States' rights (American politics)
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
The pamphlet is inscribed along the top: "Compliments of Clement K. Fay."
In 1887, a hearing was held to consider enacting a law securing municipal suffrage for women in Massachusetts. Clement K. Fay spoke for the opposition. The bill was not passed.
Fay, Clement K.
Brookline : Chronicle Press
1887
22 p. incl. tables
English
DOCU.1887.01
Pamphlet : Why Not? [1917]
Elections
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Women--Suffrage--New York
The pamphlet asks and answers the question "In the United States all men are allowed to vote. Why not women?"
This pamphlet was published as a part of the campaign to lobby for woman's suffrage in the upcoming election in New York State. New York granted state voting rights to women in 1917.
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[1917]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1917.07