DeGolyer Library, Hervey A. Priddy collection of American presidential and political memorabilia

Suffrage Parade [Photograph]

Sepia photograph showing a women’s suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913. Flags in photograph represent countries where women had partial suffrage.

The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. This mass demonstration included a number of noted…

Letter from Delaware suffragist Martha Cranston to activist Jeanette Rankin, April 6, 1917

Martha Cranston served as President of the Wilmington Suffrage Alliance, President of the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association, and President of the Delaware League of Women Voters. Cranston advocated for both the Temperance cause and the Woman's…

The Militant Campaign, by Doris Stevens, member of the executive committee, National Woman’s Party

Stevens was a suffragist and advocate for the legal rights of women. After splitting from the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association due to differences of opinion over political tactics, the National Woman’s Party organized the first picket…

Do You Know Where the Women’s Overseas Hospital is stationed, what its workers are doing and when the next contingent will sail?

Booklet depicts a suffragist standing beside a nurse. The first “all women’s hospital” unit arrived in France. This Women’s Oversea Hospital was backed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Women were not eligible to serve in the…

Vote for the Suffrage Amendment! Votes for Women and the Larger Home

Depicts an image of a woman trying to protect her children and home from movie halls, saloons, brothers, and dance halls. Quote is William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State: “I place the emphasis upon the mother’s right to a voice in moulding the…

['Vote No on Woman Suffrage' Pin-Back Button]

Imprinted Vote No on Woman Suffrage. Verso: [imprinted] Bastian Bros. Co., MFRS of Ribbon Metal. S. A. No 11, [illegible] & B. A. and Celluloid Novelties. Rochester, N. Y.

Series of anti-suffrage flyers linking the movement to socialism 1913, 1919

“The Red Behind the Yellow Socialism in the Wake of Suffrage” was issued by the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Formed in 1911, the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage (NAOWS) was a popular anti-suffrage organization among…

Program of the Second Annual Convention California Woman’s State Democratic League for Woodrow Wilson and a woman running for Congress in California, Josephine Marshall Fernald, 1916

Josephine Marshal Fernald ran as a candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket in 1916, against the congressman Julius Kahn, from San Francisco. She was elected and served as chairman of music at the National Democratic Convention at San…

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