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 : America and woman suffrage. Wyoming. Colorado. Utah. Idaho.1909
Wells, B.B. (Bettina Borrmann), 1879-
Women--Suffrage--Colorado
Women--Suffrage--Idaho
Women--Suffrage--Utah
Women--Suffrage--Wyoming
British suffragist, Bettina Borrman Wells discusses her three visits to the United States over a period of three years, when she visited areas where women were already enfranchised, including Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah.
Wells was active in the Women's Freedom League in Great Britain before she moved to the United States. Borrman Wells founded the organization, the American Suffragettes to model English militant methods of protest.
Wells, B.B. (Bettina Borrmann), 1879-
London : W. & G. Baird
1909-11-07
National Women's Social and Political Union
15 p.
English
DOCU.1909.13
Leaflet : Pennsylvania Catholic Clergy Opinions on Woman Suffrage. [1914]
Catholic
Christianity and politics--Catholic Church--History--20th century
Religion
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Leaflet containing quotes by prominent Catholic clergy to demonostrate Catholic support for woman's suffrage. The PWSA published this leaflet as a part of their lobbying campaign for an upcoming suffrage referendum in 1915. The referendum did not pass at that time.
On June 27, 1919, Pennsylvania became the eighth state to ratify the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
[Harrisburg, Penn. : Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association]
[1914]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1914.05
Flier : Votes for Women a Success The Map Proves It. [1915]
Maps
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
United States--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Flier distributed to state organizations to lobby for state suffrage.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
1915
1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
DOCU.1915.16
Flier : Twenty Facts About Woman Suffrage. [Circa 1915]
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--New York
Flier lists twenty positive facts under the categories of where women vote and how women vote.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[Circa 1915]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1915.20
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
Flier : Woman suffrage by federal amendment, why? Six reasons. February 1917
Constitutional amendments
Election law
National American Woman Suffrage Association
States' rights (American politics)
Lists the six reasons why the woman suffrage amendment needs to be ratified.
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
1917-02
1 p.
English
DOCU.1917.08
Flier : Are you with us? July 1918
Constitutional amendments
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Petitions
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Promotional flier published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association Literature Committee, meant to for states where women were not permitted to vote. The flier encourages people to sign the peition for the federal suffrage amendment.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National American Woman Suffrage Association
1918-07
1 p.
English
DOCU.1918.04
Broadside : The Negro and the new social order (Extracts from the Messenger). [1919]
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Social conditions
Anti-suffrage
Civil rights--United States
Constitutional amendments
Equality
Intermarriage
Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama
Messenger
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
Race discrimination--United States
Randolph, A. Philip--(Asa Philip),--1889-1979
States' rights (American politics)
Women--Suffrage--Alabama
The broadside, published by the Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama contains excerpts from "The Negro and the New Social Order," published in The Messenger, a magazine founded in 1917 by A. Phillip Randolph and Chandler Owen as the "only radical Negro magazine in America."
Extracts pulled include those for universal suffrage, social equality, and intermarriage. The League encourages voters to reject the Susan B. Anthony amendment in the name of states' rights. The League was a state affiliate of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
The Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Ala. : Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama
[1919]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1919.01
Alabama