A bold poster for New York’s 1915 suffrage campaign—the forerunner to the 1917 referendum which made New York the first eastern state to grant women the right to vote. Printed in the Empire State Campaign’s classic colors of blue and gold, this poster exhorts the New York’s male voters to.....
An unrecorded and vividly printed handbill in the colors of the British suffrage movement advertising a 1912 lecture by renowned Suffragette and leftist social organizer Sylvia Pankhurst in Milwaukee, then a “Socialist city.” Sylvia Pankhurst made her appearance at Milwaukee’s landmark Pabst Theatre on the evening of Friday, February 2nd.....
A scarce anti-women’s suffrage broadside, evidently printed shortly before the ratification of the 19th amendment, using quotations from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Woman’s Bible to attack the suffrage movement. Following a brief history of the Woman’s Bible and numerous quotations of “objectionable” passages, this broadside asks: “Are you willing for women.....
An unrecorded broadsheet advertising a P. T. Barnum show at the American Institute in New York City featuring three lady performers: Madame Dockrill “in her thrilling act on four bareback horses”; Zazel “in her terrific aerial dive or eagle sweep”; and Madame Nelson and her flock of trained doves. Includes.....
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An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her “understanding of the household business.” This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany—aged twenty-three and.....
This New York suffrage broadside from the 1915 Empire State Campaign names the ten western states that had already given over three million women the right to vote and asserts several reasons why the men of New York should be “as generous-minded,” including: “Women of New York are as intelligent.....
This New York suffragist handbill, printed in advance of the 1917 New York State elections, lists some of the many ways that wives and husbands work together (the chores, the hay, the milking, the taxes, the mortgage, etc.) and asks “Why not vote together?” The last line encourages readers to.....
A rare pair of World War I posters by a woman artist who was apparently one of the “Yeomanettes”—the first women to enlist in the U.S. Navy. One of the posters, an original color drawing, shows a rosy-cheeked male sailor reading a newspaper and smiling. The front page of the.....
This broadside reprints selections of a pro-suffrage speech from Colorado Representative Edward T. Taylor to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1812. Taylor’s remarks, grounded in his own state’s experience with women’s suffrage (which was passed into law in 1893), attempts to reassure worried listeners about perceived ill consequences of.....