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“Some Remarkable American Women, at the Bar, in the Pulpit, and on the Dramatic and Operatic Stages.”
“Some Remarkable American Women” features image of Miss Phebe Couzins addressing the National Democratic Convention of 1876, in St. Louis. Couzins was one of the first female lawyers in the United States. Other woman highlighted in this article…
“Why Woman Want to Vote. Women Are Citizens, and Wish to Do Their Civic Duty” [Broadside]
Broadside reads: Justice/Equality/Why women want to vote/Women are citizens, and wish to do their civic duty. It also lists reasons why working women, housekeepers, mothers, teachers, business women, tax-paying women, women of leisure, and all women…
“An Appeal to the Women of New York,” The Freethinkers’ Magazine
In the summer of 1894, New York State held a convention to revise its Constitution. In her article Stanton calls upon the women of New York to demand suffrage. “If the women of this State understood the significance of this right of suffrage, they…
“An Expurgated Bible,” Free Thought Magazine, December 1902
Vol. XX, No. 12. of Free Thought Magazine featuring an article authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton titled “An Expurgated Bible.” “…I suggest that inasmuch as the Bible degrades women, and in innumerable passages teachers her absolute subjection to man…
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” The American Monthly Review of Reviews, XXVI
Ida Husted Harper was an American author, journalist, columnist, and suffragist. In 1896, Harper joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The next year, Susan B. Anthony asked Harper to come to New York to write her official…
“I am Opposed to Woman’s Suffrage.”
Mailing card signed Mrs. K.M. Leighton of 20 Beacon Street opposing suffrage for women.
“Suffrage a Natural Right,” The Open Court, February 1, 1894
Susan B. Anthony read this this speech, written by Stanton, before the final session of World’s Congress on Government. The lecture did not appear in print until Open Court published it as an article in 1894, and reprinted it as a pamphlet.
“Warden die Sufragtten mobolifiert” [Postcard in German]
Image features group of women holding various weapons including an axe, knife, gun, and bomb. Text reads: nachdem die engliche armee geichlagen weden die sufragetten mobilifiert, translated: after the Enlgish army is equal, the suffragettes are…
“Woman in the Home.”
Produced by the Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York in support of the women's suffrage movement, FitzGerald argues that “women are, by nature and training, housekeepers. Let them have a hand in the city’s housekeeping, even if they introduce…
A key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work
After receiving accusations of misrepresenting slavery in her earlier publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe published this work to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in her novel.