Postcard : Buying votes. 1912
Children
Children and politics
Kissing
Polling places
Sailors
United States--Massachusetts--Taunton
United States--Massachusetts--Worcester
This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a girl kissing a boy who is wearing a sailor suit. She is holding a "Votes for Wimmen" flag, and they are standing next to a sign that reads: "Dis way to vote."
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Clarissa Stacy 350 Tremont St. Taunton Massachusetts, and postmarked August 19, 1914. The message reads: "Hello! Clarris, I was glad to hear from you. I begun to think you had forgotten all about me. / I'm having a fine time and I hope you are too. / Gladys"
Shinn, Cobb K.
New York : T.P. Co.
1912
Advertisement : concert at Bigelow's Garden in Worcester, Massachusetts in honor of General Butler, with novelties, bombs, shells, etc. October 28, 1882
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
United States --Massachusetts --Worcester
United States --Politics and government
Women --Suffrage --Massachusetts
The concert appears to be a rally for General Benjamin Butler, a Civil War general, lawyer, and politician, during his run for Governor of Massachusetts.
The programme list includes: "the woman's suffrage plank the best in the platform. Equal rights to all, without test of race or color."
On the reverse is an illustration of Bigelow's Garden.
1882-10-28
1 p.
English
ALMS.1882.01
Worcester, Massachusetts
Flier : Torchlight suffrage march and mass meeting. Worcester, Massachusetts. October 30, 1915
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940
Parades & processions--Massachusetts--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Flier and pledge form to participate in the Torchlight Suffrage March and Mass Meeting held in Worcester, Massachusetts to rally supporters for the upcoming vote on woman suffrage in the November 2, 1915 election. Senator Borah, of Idaho, was scheduled to speak after the parade in support of the amendment.
Massachusetts voters rejected the referendum, along with New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. On June 25, 1919, Massachusetts became the eighth state to ratify the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote.
The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 23, 1850.
1915-10
1 p.
English
DOCU.1915.28