19th amendment

[Hortense McDonald]. National Woman Party

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Hortense McDonald, facing camera, hand on hip, in checkered suit, with hat and handbag, architectural interior background.

Mrs. Street - Public domain portrait photograph

Summary: Unidentified actress in what appears to be a still photograph from a skit on woman's suffrage, featuring a woman wearing a wedding ring and a gingham dress and white apron seated at a table with mixing... More

Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson, N. Carolina St. Chrmn.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Ella St. Clair Thompson, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing hat with embroidered appliqué and coat. T... More

Procession Summer 1913. Delegation Coming in from Hyattsville to prese...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of procession of cars, draped with banners, passing White House.

[Crowd converging on marchers and blocking parade route during March 3...

Public domain photograph of a parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elizabeth Glendower Evans. - Public domain portrait print

Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elizabeth Glendower Evans, turned to the right with face in three-quarter profile, arms bent at elbows resting on waist, wearing wide-brimmed feathered hat. Title transc... More

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE

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Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, Grand Marshal of the procession organized ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Postcard image of Juliet Rublee astride a horse with crowd of people in background.

[Fola LaFollette] going to annual meeting [of] C[ongressional] U[nion]...

Summary: Outdoor photograph of Fola La Follette (right) walking on city sidewalk with two unidentified women (left and rear, mostly obscured), all wearing coats and hats. Curbside trees, distant buildings, and ... More

Mrs. Mary Beard of New York is a member of the Executive Committee of ...

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Mrs. Sara Bard Field, of San Francisco, is one of the most eloquent an...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Sara Bard Field of San Francisco, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing light-colore... More

Miss Ilia Carpenter, secretary of Iowa Branch of National Woman's Part...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, in academic cap and gown, of Ilia Carpenter, secretary of Iowa Branch of National Woman’s Party, and a member of the committee to help ... More

[Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offi...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of two women working in the Suffragist office. Frances Pepper is seated at a typewriter; Elizabeth Smith is reaching for a shelf on a step ladder.... More

Mrs. Harry [Anna] Lowenburg, Chairman State of Pennsylvania, Board of ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Anna Lowenburg, facing forward, seated in chair, holding book in right hand in lap, leaning left arm to jaw, in hat. A similar photo... More

[Map of] Route of Envoys Sent from East by the Congressional Union for...

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Arrival of the "Flying Squadron" at Colorado Springs, Colo[rado]. "Suf...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of suffragists gathered outside the depot of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with a banner, "We Demand an Amend... More

Suffrage pickets marching around the White House-- March 4, 1917

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women picketing with banners on sidewalk in front of White House. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 59 (Mar. 10, 1917): 8. Caption: "The Line on ... More

Mrs. J. H. H. [Alison Turnbull] Hopkins, of New Jersey, on the Woman's...

Title transcribed from image. Allison Turnbull Hopkins of Morristown, N.J., was New Jersey state chairman of the NWP and a member of the NWP executive committee in 1917, as well as president of various women's ... More

TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill...

TR addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of TR and a frontal view shot from the rear of th... More

Mrs. Weller of Arizona. - Public domain portrait photograph

Title transcribed from item. Summary: [Rainy day] outdoor portrait of Mrs. Weller, standing outside Madison Place on wet pavement, wearing suffrage sash and displaying Arizona state parade banner.

Left to Right: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins [Alison Turnbull Hop...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of three National Woman's Party members in prison dress carrying wooden chairs, on rooftop of building. (Left to right): Doris Stevens, Alison Turnbull H... More

Republican Convention. L-R: Mrs. James Rector, Ohio, Mary Dubrow, N.J....

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mrs. James Rector, Mary Dubrow, and Alice Paul standing outside and holding a banner, "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party... More

National Woman's Party Headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., in which the ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of women and men posing under "National Woman's Party" banner.

Left to right: Adelaide Johnston, sculptor, Mrs. Lawrence [Dora] Lewis...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of sculptor Adelaide Johnston, National Woman's Party activist Dora Lewis, and social reformer Jane Addams posed in front of statue of pioneer suffragists in the... More

[National Woman's Party members standing in line with banners during t...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members assembling in street with banners. Among the banners are those reading "Nebraska," "California Republic," Connec... More

[National Woman's Party National Council, October 25, 1922]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of eight National Woman's Party members outside on the steps in front of a building. Alva Belmont, center.

[National Woman's Party members walking with banners during the dedica...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members marching in the street with banners, U.S. Capitol dome in the background.

Mary Van Casteel, chairman Students' Council National Woman's Party, a...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mary Van Casteel, facing slightly left with head turned toward camera, wearing dress with lace collar and lace cuffs on sho... More

Alva Belmont's coffin being carried into St. Hubert's Chapel at Woodla...

Title and date transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of coffin covered with flowers being carried into a chapel. A policeman and people in coats are on the steps below, and National Woman's Party members f... More

[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with othe...

Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913. Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant.... More

Men's League for Women's Suffrage: Constitution and Charter Members

Lists officers and charter members: President, George Foster Peabody; Secretary Treasurer, Max Eastman; 13 Vice Presidents including William Dean Howells, Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, President Langdon Stewardson, ... More

Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards Distri...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap. Caption on cropped version of same ima... More

Report of the National Women Suffrage Convention held at Washington, F...

Picryl description: Public domain newspaper clippings page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Votes For Women New York State Woman Suffrage Association membership c...

Mrs. Evelyn P. Coe, Sec[retary], Massachusetts[achusetts] Branch, C[on...

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Miss Clara Louise Rowe, of Syracuse, N.Y., campaigned in the New York ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Clara L. Rowe, wearing broad-brimmed hat and square-necked satin dress with ruffle trim.

Mrs. Gertrude Hunter of Minnesota is one of the national organizers of...

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Gertrude Hunter, facing slightly toward the left with head turned to camera, wearing eye glasses (pince-nez) and dress with sheer sleeves ... More

Miss Emily K. Perry, Washington DC

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Mrs. Nina E. Allender., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Nina E. Allender, studio portrait, head and shoulders. The caption on an alternate photograph in the same folder reads: Mrs. Nina E. Allender of Washington, D.C., formerly ... More

Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, National Summer Headquarters...

Photograph shows group portrait of suffragettes standing outside in front of headquarters. Copyright 1914 by Ernst & Thuot, Newport, R. I. Copyright registration title: Congressional union for woman's suffrage,... More

At Mrs. [Alva]] Belmont's [house in] Newport, RI, 1914.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and men on steps leading up to Marble House, Alva Belmont's estate in Newport, RI.

Woman's Party Booth at San Francisco Exposition Spring 1915. L-R, Fron...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Group indoor photograph of National Woman's Party members wearing hats and suffrage sashes. Left to right: (front, seated) May Wright Sewall, Kate Waller Barrett, (rear, st... More

Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Cartoonist, Nat[ional] Woman's P[ar]ty

Summary: Informal portrait, Nina E. Allender, full-length, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding a cartoon sketch in her lap. Title and information transcribed from item. Photograp... More

Meeting at Coffee House, New York. Front row - L-R Mrs. Wm Colt, N.Y.,...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Advisory Council leaving the Peg Woffington Coffee House in New York City. Left to right (front row): Elizabeth Colt, E... More

Mrs. Robert Adamson, wife of Fire Commissioner of N.Y. City. She will ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Ethel M. Adamson, with clasped hands. The caption on a smaller duplicate print of the same image located in the same folder reads: "Mr... More

Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Proh...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elsie Hill, standing in the back seat of an automobile that is parked at curb, speaking to a crowd of people (mostly men} standing on a sidewalk, on a street ... More

Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse of Portland, Me., Chairman of the Maine B...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, facing left, standing by window and table with container of flowers, wearing loosely flow... More

[Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of (mostly female) suffrage supporters demonstrating with signs addressed to President Woodrow Wilson while assembled along a street in Chicago. S... More

Mrs. Sophie Meredith, chairman of Virginia Branch N.W.P.

Title and information transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 5 (June 1920): n.p. Summary: Formal portrait, Sophie G. Meredith, seated, half-length, facing f... More

N[ew] J[ersey] Headquarters C[ongressional] U[nion].

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women preparing roadster (mostly outside image) in front of the New Jersey headquarters for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. A sign on the side of ... More

Mrs. Edna S. Latimer, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for the Wo...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half length portrait of Edna S. Latimer, facing camera, in hat, with brooch.

Campaign in Illinois. One of the big Woman's Party street banners bein...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of banner hanging from building. Banner: "Women voters, you have the vote. Get it for all American women. Vote against Wilson. He opposes national woman suffrage... More

Mrs. George Elder Adams, of New York, who took part in the picketing o...

Summary: Studio portrait, Mrs. George Elder Adams of New York, in hat and fur stole, standing with a copy of the newsletter The Suffragist in her hands. Title transcribed from item.

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Julia Hurlbut leading procession of (two) suffragists down city sidewalk, both suffragists wear suffrage sashes and hold aloft suffrage banners, Hurlbut holds... More

Kate Heffelfinger after her release from Occoquan Prison, ca. 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a woman escorting Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, outside near a car, after release from jail. Kate Heffelfinger, of Shamokin, Penn., was an art studen... More

Interior dining room D.C. prison

Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Police arresting party demonstrators outside Senate Office Building, O...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of policemen confronting a line of National Woman's Party pickets on Constitution Avenue. The suffragists wear sashes and carry suffrage banners. Women near the ... More

Police arresting party picketers outside White House, August 1918.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party pickets (holding suffrage banners) in front of the White House gates being escorted to car by policeman, while spectators, including a ... More

Party watchfires burn outside White House, Jan. 1919.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party watchfire demonstrators standing with banners and fire in urn in front of White House. One banner reads, "President Wilson is deceiving... More

Trusted with kids, not with a vote Chandrai Jackson-Saunders has been ...

Digital political poster for voting rights with a teacher reading to three children. Artist's name and date from file header. Gift; DC Vote; 2006; (DLC/PP-2008:021)

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Frederick W. Baldwin, April 17, 1913

Mrs. Cobden Sanderson will speak on Militant Suffrage Movement, Cooper...

Inside: Advertisement for suffrage novel, The Convert, by Elizabeth Robins with review by Carrie Chapman Catt; handwritten across the top: "Our price $1.25. Discount goes to the College League. Order copies of ... More

Copy of preamble and protest ... Brooklyn Auxiliary, New York State as...

Anti-suffragists. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 130, Folder 13a.

Miss Alice Park, California. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, Alice Park, seated outside, facing slightly to the left, wearing eyeglasses and lace-collared blouse or dress.

Mrs. Edwin Grice of Pennsylvania is one of the prominent members of th...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Mary Van Meter Grice, turned slightly to the right with head tilted and eyes facing front toward camera,... More

Miss Ruth Astor Noyes of Washington, D.C.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Ruth Astor Noyes, wearing dark suit and broad-brimmed decorative hat with veil.

To All Women, Greeting: Woman Suffrage Pageant and Mass Meeting

Notice: Calling all women to participate in Women's Suffrage Parade and Mass meeting sponsored by Women's Political Union and Woman Suffrage Party.

Mrs. Edward F. Feickert, President, New Jersey Woman Suffrage Ass[ocia...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, right profile, Lillian Ford Feickert, wearing wide-collared dress or blouse with bow at neckline. Photograph published in The Suffragis... More

Abigail Scott Duniway signing first Equal Suffrage Proclamation ever m...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Staged photograph of Abigail Scott Duniway, seated at table, preparing to sign Oregon's equal suffrage proclamation as Mrs. Viola M. Coe and Governor Oswald West stand on e... More

Iris Calderhead, daughter of former Representative Calderhead and wife...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Iris Calderhead (daughter of former Representative Calderhead and wife of John Brisban Walker of Colorado), facing right with head turn... More

Dr. Cora Smith King of Seattle, Washington, is one of the prominent me...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Dr. Cora Smith King, facing left, hands folded in lap. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 2, no. 35 (Aug... More

Sarah C. Grant of St. Paul, Minn., organizing in Illinois for Congress...

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Suffrage march line--How thousands of women parade today at Capitol

Women marchers organized by country, state, occupation, and organization, led by Miss Inez Milholland and Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson, during the suffrage march, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C. Illus. in: New Yo... More

Members of the Congressional Union pasting advertisements announcing t...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

Miss Jane Pincus, Albany, N.Y., organized in the Woman's Political Uni...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Jane Pincus, in checked dress with lace collar and broad-brimmed dark hat. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 2, no. 39 ... More

Margaret Whittemore campaigning in Oregon in white on platform.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Margaret Whittemore (on left, in white dress) and others on platform in front of large female audience (some seated, some standing or departing) at outdoor me... More

Mrs. W. D. Ascough of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the Connecticut bra...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Lillian Ascough, facing right, head turned toward camera. Verso (struck out): "A speaker in the demonstration this afte... More

Sara Bard Field speaking at Salt Lake City, Oct. 4, 1915, Gov[ernor] S...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Sara Bard Field speaking before audience. Also on verso: Gov. Spry of Utah, Mayor Samuel Park of Salt Lake in background, Sara Bard Field in foreground, Capit... More

Pre-election parade for suffrage in NYC, Oct. 23, 1915, in which 20,00...

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Emily Pierson Handing out Leaflets in New York State Suffrage Campaign...

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The genii of intolerance A dangerous ally for the cause of women suffr...

Cartoon showing a genii "Prohibition" rising from a bottle labeled "Injustice Intolera[nce] Hypocr[isy]" tearing at a woman's banner reading "Votes for Women" as the woman flees from his clutches.

[Suffrage envoy Sara Bard Field (left) and her driver, Maria Kindberg ...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women in coats and hats standing in front of automobile with banner reading, "We demand an Amendment to the United States Constitution En... More

Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. When suffragists returned from White Hou...

Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Harriot Stanton Blatch with arms outstretched, palms facing up, wearing a hat and belted dress or suit, with a hand bag hanging from the waist. Title and date... More

Inez Milholland [Boissevain], center, as she begins her last speaking ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Inez Milholland [Boissevain] standing between two unidentified women. Woman on the right holds suffrage flag.

Abandoned jail near D.C. Prison where pickets of Aug. 18 were confined...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of exterior of prison.

Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917] /

Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was rejected by the vo... More

Miss Eleanor B. Arrison, 1508 Oxford Rd., Frankford, Pennsylvania

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal, full-length portrait of Eleanor B. Arrison, in hat and shawl, standing with dog in front of a small building, plastered with posters showing a large "V" for Victo... More

Ernestine Hara. - Public domain print

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Full-length, outdoor photograph of Ernestine Hara, wearing dark coat, hat, and tricolor (purple, white, and gold) suffrage sash, and h... More

Deputation Leaving Headquarters to Take Petition to Senator Jones of N...

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Annie Fraher, Bertha Moller, Berthe Arnold, and Anita Pollitzer standing outside the Nationa... More

Mrs. Luth Jaeger, member of the executive board of the Minnesota Branc...

Title transcribed from image. Cropped version of photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no.38 (Sept. 20, 1919): 9. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Nanny Mattson Jaeger of Minnesota, facing left wi... More

Officers of the National Woman's Party who will direct the Woman's Lib...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Group of seven portraits of National Woman's Party officers. On verso: Left to right - top row: Mrs. Agnes Morey, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Dora Lewis. Center: Alva Belmont. L... More

When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug 18, 1920, Alice Paul, Nati...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul standing over ratification banner hanging from the balcony of the National Woman's Party headquarters, with members watching outside the building b... More

Catherine Flanagan bringing Conn. Ratification to State Department

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, Catherine M. Flanagan, full-length, facing left with head turned slightly toward camera, wearing a hat, suit with suffrage prisoner pin o... More

[National Woman's Party members picketing 1917 Republican Party Conven...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Three suffragists in white, wearing suffrage sashes, hold banners outside building, on sidewalk. Texts of banners regarding Republican party partially obscured.

[Katharine Field] daughter of Sara Bard Field.

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Katharine Field, standing in front of marble display case outside National Woman's Party headquarters, ... More

[Pageant celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Con...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of group of girls with banners outside in front of large rock formations; sound crew and others in trench in front of them.

Hazel MacKaye, noted pageant director, who is in charge of the big out...

Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Hazel MacKaye, turned to the left, facing camera, standing outdoors in front of a lake. Title and information transcribed from item. Deleted from original caption is pas... More

A group of ritualists from the "Forward into Light" pageant which will...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of four women, dressed in white costumes, dancing outside.

Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence of England, Mme. Hoda Charaoni, of Egypt, Mlle. ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of (left to right) Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Hoda Charasoui, Ceza Nabaraoui, and Elizabeth Culbertson, standing on front steps outside of building. Photograph p... More

The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing President Grant sitting at the center of a large table, with several men clustered around, signing the 15th amendment granting that the right to vote cannot be denied on basis of race or color. Fr... More