A rare broadside advertising the rescheduled date of fundraising festivities—including cash prizes—for the endowment of a home, at Madison’s former estate, “for old, infirm, and destitute ladies of Virginia,” with prize tickets drawn by two blind children. A engraved illustration of Madison’s handsome home, with its four columns and numerous.....
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.....
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.....
A scarce and richly-illustrated little volume designed to amuse, instruct, and advertise in the burgeoning art of the manicure, published by the female entrepreneur whose New York City salon launched the American nail care industry. Beginning with an introductory definition of the word “manicure” (“a compound word derived from two.....
Three ephemeral items pertaining to the inaugurations of Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, the second female governor in U.S. history, who served two non-consecutive terms as governor in 1925 and 1933. The invitation to the inaugural “Reception and Ball” of 1925 is illustrated with the seal of Texas and an engraving of.....
An apparently unrecorded booklet, published by the Chicago Savings Bank and written by a prominent Republican lawyer and former County attorney, outlining the details of women’s newly-won—but limited—right to vote in Illinois. This rare booklet at once informs women of their new partial suffrage rights (effective Jun 26th, 1913) and.....
A pamphlet printing of a speech by Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado making the political, social, and moral argument for women’s suffrage based on nearly 20 years of experience with the women voters of his home state. He notes that “An ounce of fact is worth a ton of.....
A circular printing excerpts from a speech by women’s suffrage advocate and Congressman Edward T. Taylor, issued in connection with the 1912 suffrage campaign in the state of New York. At the time of publication, the women’s suffrage movement was in its final decade, leading up to the passage of.....
An appealing and detailed broadside announcing a new store, run by a female proprietor, in what was then a hamlet on Long Island, listing dry goods, groceries, and hardware, as well as boats and tackle “to let by the day”—and absolutely no liquor for sale in the evening. Fanny Terry.....
The scarce printing of this speech by an important Illinois woman suffrage organizer, made at a longstanding Republican club in downtown Chicago following the passage in Illinois of (albeit limited) voting rights for women. Grace Wilbur Trout was born in Iowa in 1864, and moved to the Oak Park neighborhood.....