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- Collection: Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner collection
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“I am Opposed to Woman’s Suffrage.”
Mailing card signed Mrs. K.M. Leighton of 20 Beacon Street opposing suffrage for women.
Votes for Women [Postcard]
Anti-Woman’s suffrage postcard featuring a belligerent suffragette talking to elderly man and holding a "Votes for Women" sign. Man responds “Yes, indeedy, ma'am! I bin a sufferagist fer years, mostly from rheumatiz!”
The Only Way to Make a Woman Hold Her Tongue [Postcard]
Postcard addressed to Mrs. Oscar Jacklin from Blanche, featuring a woman with her mouth covered.
National Anti-Suffrage Association [Photograph reproduction].
Photograph shows men looking at material posted in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters; sign in window reads "Headquarters National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage".
Woman’s Rights [Postcard]
Black and white photograph of homely woman with a big smile removing bills from her husband pants pocket. Caption: “Woman’s Rights.”
Everybody Works But Mother: She’s a Suffragette [Postcard]
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage. This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 11, features an illustration of a man doing laundry. Next to him on the floor are a child and a cat. A sign in the…
Sojourner Truth [carte de visite] noted on front “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.”
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797– 1883) was born into slavery and sold as a slave when she was nine years old. She escaped from slavery with her infant daughter in 1826. On June 1, 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth and committed to devoting her…
Harriet Beecher Stowe house [Postcard]
Postcard featuring image of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s house in Hartford, Connecticut. Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life.
Uncle Tom's story of his life An Autobiography of Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom”) from 1789 to 1876
Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. The public originally believed that Henson's life story was the basis for the character of Uncle Tom in her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.