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Votes for Women Broadside: Saint George and the Dragon

Votes for Women Broadside: Saint George and the Dragon

Suffrage cartoon shows Judge Ben Lindsay slaying the anti suffragist dragon of prejudice and misrepresentation. Inspired by Linsay's support of woman suffrage during Albany suffrage hearings based on experience... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

Suffragist's reply to anti-suffragist "official paper" read at New York Senate hearings on suffrage

"O Save Us, Senators, From Ourselves!"

"O Save Us, Senators, From Ourselves!"

W. A. Rogers cartoon: Anti-suffragists presenting petition to New York Senators Thomas Grady and John Raines

The Anti-Suffragist by William Lloyd Garrison

The Anti-Suffragist by William Lloyd Garrison

Note: Although written years ago, still appropriate

Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / Ralph Barton ; painted by Ralph Barton.

Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / Ralph Barton ; p...

Illustration shows society women playing cards and dancing rather than voting; only one woman has taken time away from socializing to cast a ballot into a ballot box brought to her card table; an unmarked ballo... More

Albany anti-suffragist Mrs. W. W. Crannell, to campaign in South Dakota, arguing women's place is at home.

Albany anti-suffragist Mrs. W. W. Crannell, to campaign in South Dakot...

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Advice to women suffragists, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Advice to women suffragists, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Urges suffrage women to concentrate on winning over indifferent and opposing women

Suffrage Plan Given Hearing; New York Woman Said That "Voting Is as Easy as Shopping."

Suffrage Plan Given Hearing; New York Woman Said That "Voting Is as Ea...

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Loss of Woman's Aid Is America's Waste

Loss of Woman's Aid Is America's Waste

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Suffragism: Harriet Stanton Blatch rebuts Mary Ward, comparing progress in American and British suffrage movements

Suffragism: Harriet Stanton Blatch rebuts Mary Ward, comparing progres...

Notes American women's progress in educational and professional opportunities

Geneva Political Equality Club hears Opponent of Woman Suffrage, Rev. J. A. Leighton

Geneva Political Equality Club hears Opponent of Woman Suffrage, Rev. ...

Leighton maintains there is no natural right to universal suffrage for men and women; already suffering from vote of uneducated, indifferent men; women do not have less intellectual abilities, just different in... More

Mrs. Mackay's Campaign - Public domain document scan

Mrs. Mackay's Campaign - Public domain document scan

Mrs. Clarence Mackay meets Governor Hughes; arranges for suffrage hearings March 9 with Speaker Wadsworth and schedules mass suffrage meeting on February 16 and invites Mrs. Nelson H. Henry and anti-suffragists.

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Suffrage Field Day: Advocates and opponents address Senate Hearings

Suffrage Field Day: Advocates and opponents address Senate Hearings

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Woman's Suffrage Not Inevitable

Woman's Suffrage Not Inevitable

Reprint of Mary A. (Mrs. Humphrey) Ward letter to London Times suggesting British anti-suffragists can defeat woman suffrage just as anti-suffragists have in America, noting defeats of constitutional amendments... More

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Mrs. Charles S. Burrall gives impressions of Suffrage Hearing at Albany

Mrs. Charles S. Burrall gives impressions of Suffrage Hearing at Alban...

Elizabeth Smith Miller Study Club study Rose Pastor Stokes and Edgar Allen Poe; Henry B. Graves speaks on tariff; Mrs. Charles Burrall talks of importance of taking a stand on woman suffrage

Senator Hinman Opposes Suffrage Bill

Senator Hinman Opposes Suffrage Bill

Senator Harvey D. Hinman declines Anne Fitzhugh Miller's request that he support the woman suffrage amendment.

New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage Attacks Female Lobbyists

New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage Attacks Female Lo...

New York State Association Opposed to Women Suffrage circular letter to New York legislators alleges "no desire to make converts" while charging that suffragists have established a female lobby in Albany. Handw... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
New York Suffragettes Invade the Capital

New York Suffragettes Invade the Capital

One thousand women attend suffrage hearings aimed at 23 Judiciary Committee members; reports flamboyant banter by suffragists and anti-suffragists.

Declined, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Declined, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Albany "antis" opposed to woman suffrage decline Geneva Political Equality Club invitation to participate in discussion on suffrage .

Geneva Political Equality Club Afternoon Entertained at home of Mrs. Maria Remington Hemiup

Geneva Political Equality Club Afternoon Entertained at home of Mrs. M...

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Geneva Political Equality Club meeting held at the home of Mrs. David Moore

Geneva Political Equality Club meeting held at the home of Mrs. David ...

Geneva Political Equality Club afternoon meeting of musical and literary selections, included reading on anti suffragists and extracts of letter from New York State Anti suffrage Association to Governor Hughes ... More

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

Anti's Urge Offices for Women - Public domain document scan

Anti's Urge Offices for Women - Public domain document scan

Reprints New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage letter to New York Governor Hughes urging him to appoint more women to state boards and committees as the "safest method of utilizing at the present... More

Piazza Party at Lochland, May 31, 1909

Piazza Party at Lochland, May 31, 1909

J. Redfern Mason counters Rev. Joseph Leighton's anti suffragist arguments: voting is a natural right of both men and women; trade unions alone cannot protect working women; woman suffrage could uplift politics... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
New York State Woman Suffrage Association Legislative Work, comments by Anne Fitzhugh Miller
Woman Suffrage Movement Growing Stronger Each Year, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Woman Suffrage Movement Growing Stronger Each Year, NAWSA suffrage scr...

Lewis responds to anti-suffragists, noting support of National Grande and American Federation of Labor and interest among working women; see also 3:139 Clipping above, probably from 1900, notes lack of support ... More

Anti-Suffragists' Organ critiques recent Remonstrance
Outline of Inexpedience of Woman Suffrage, by J.A. Leighton

Outline of Inexpedience of Woman Suffrage, by J.A. Leighton

Suffrage not necessary to secure civil rights and economic advantage

Against Suffrage - Public domain document scan

Against Suffrage - Public domain document scan

Geneva suffragists welcome anti-suffrage discussion and organization inspired by Rev. Leighton's talk.

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Women Suffrage Bill is Considered Today

Women Suffrage Bill is Considered Today

At the request of Harriot Blatch, Anne Fitzhugh Miller organizes a local telegram campaign by prominent male members of Geneva Political Equality Club to Joint Judiciary Committee of NY legislature, urging that... More

New York Hearing on tax election bill, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

New York Hearing on tax election bill, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

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Mrs. Craigie On Woman Suffrage - Newspaper, public domain, Library of Congress

Mrs. Craigie On Woman Suffrage - Newspaper, public domain, Library of ...

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The Clamor of Women - Public domain document scan

The Clamor of Women - Public domain document scan

Editorial comment: praises decorum and respectability of Albany suffrage hearings, but fear that American suffragists will follow more militant British suffragists in a cause against their best interests. Belie... More

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

A lively hearing on suffrage bills

A lively hearing on suffrage bills

Coverage of suffrage hearings, arguments both for and against full suffrage and tax suffrage; Mrs. Richard K Noyes concerned about enfranchising disreputable women and black women; extracts from Mrs. Richard Al... More

A Brief Sojourn in Baltimore and The Sun; Woman Suffragists and Their Opponents

A Brief Sojourn in Baltimore and The Sun; Woman Suffragists and Their ...

In Springfield Sunday Republican, March 4, 1906, Clementina Dawes Nahmer describes National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention events and attendees including Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Women Suffrage Bill is Considered Today

Women Suffrage Bill is Considered Today

At the request of Harriot Blatch, Anne Fitzhugh Miller organizes a local telegram campaign by prominent male members of Geneva Political Equality Club to Joint Judiciary Committee of NY legislature, urging that... More

Women Suffrage Bill is Considered Today

Women Suffrage Bill is Considered Today

At the request of Harriot Blatch, Anne Fitzhugh Miller organizes a local telegram campaign by prominent male members of Geneva Political Equality Club to Joint Judiciary Committee of NY legislature, urging that... More

Defeat and Progress: Mariana Chapman replies to Anti-Suffragists, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Defeat and Progress: Mariana Chapman replies to Anti-Suffragists, NAWS...

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Assemblyman Callan Likes Home Cooking

Assemblyman Callan Likes Home Cooking

Assemblyman A. S. Callan won't support suffrage amendment because his mother and sister are members of Association Opposed to woman suffrage

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

Anne F. Miller Is Heard At Albany Hearing; page 2

Anne F. Miller Is Heard At Albany Hearing; page 2

Anne Fitzhugh Miller speaks at three suffrage hearings; compares anti-suffragists attitude with her own attitude against telephones

Votes for Women Strongly Urged - Public domain document scan

Votes for Women Strongly Urged - Public domain document scan

Extracts from speeches of Mrs. William Forse Scott and Mary Dean Adams, against women immigrants voting; Ella Hawley Crossett and Fanny Garrison Villard stress large number of organizations supporting woman suf... More

Hearings on Tax Suffrage for Women Taxpayers

Hearings on Tax Suffrage for Women Taxpayers

Four clippings: Edgar Parker's editorial in Advertiser-Gazette, March 22, 1906 supports tax suffrage for women taxpayers and gives local women credit for several public improvements; third class cities tax suff... More

Hearings on Tax Suffrage for Women Taxpayers

Hearings on Tax Suffrage for Women Taxpayers

Four clippings: Edgar Parker's editorial in Advertiser-Gazette, March 22, 1906 supports tax suffrage for women taxpayers and gives local women credit for several public improvements; third class cities tax suff... More

Hearings on Tax Suffrage for Women Taxpayers

Hearings on Tax Suffrage for Women Taxpayers

Four clippings: Edgar Parker's editorial in Advertiser-Gazette, March 22, 1906 supports tax suffrage for women taxpayers and gives local women credit for several public improvements; third class cities tax suff... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
New York Suffragettes Invade the Capital

New York Suffragettes Invade the Capital

One thousand women attend suffrage hearings aimed at 23 Judiciary Committee members; reports flamboyant banter by suffragists and anti-suffragists.

Review of the firstRemonstrant at National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention

Review of the firstRemonstrant at National American Woman Suffrage Ass...

Helen A. Shaw, Massachusetts, sees anti-suffragists as sign of suffrage progress; see National American Woman Suffrage Association 1900 convention program, 3:56 Page 170-71 missing; page 172 blank

New York Senate Hearings of tax suffrage

New York Senate Hearings of tax suffrage

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Woman's Day at Albany; Committee Hearings on Suffrage Bills

Woman's Day at Albany; Committee Hearings on Suffrage Bills

At Senate hearings on tax suffrage, Anne Fitzhugh Miller speaks of Geneva experience with women voting in special tax elections; reads favorable endorsements for woman suffrage by Mayor Arthur P. Rose and Commo... More

First Choice for Suffragists: Geneva Political Equality Club Invited to Federation of Labor fair

First Choice for Suffragists: Geneva Political Equality Club Invited t...

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Mrs. Charles Burral discusses Albany Suffrage Hearings at Elizabeth Smith Miller Study Club meeting

Mrs. Charles Burral discusses Albany Suffrage Hearings at Elizabeth Sm...

This March 15, 1909 clipping also appears appropriately in Scrapbook 7, page 43.

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

Suffragists and Anti-Suffragists at New York State Fair

Suffragists and Anti-Suffragists at New York State Fair

Mrs. Gilbert Jones anti-suffrage speech at New York state fair converts Katherine Sedgwich Burlingame, leading Syracuse philanthropist, to suffrage cause.

A lively hearing on suffrage bills

A lively hearing on suffrage bills

Coverage of suffrage hearings, arguments both for and against full suffrage and tax suffrage; Mrs. Richard K Noyes concerned about enfranchising disreputable women and black women; extracts from Mrs. Richard Al... More

Anne F. Miller Is Heard At Albany Hearing; page 2

Anne F. Miller Is Heard At Albany Hearing; page 2

Anne Fitzhugh Miller speaks at three suffrage hearings; compares anti-suffragists attitude with her own attitude against telephones

Piazza Party at Lochland, May 31, 1909

Piazza Party at Lochland, May 31, 1909

J. Redfern Mason counters Rev. Joseph Leighton's anti suffragist arguments: voting is a natural right of both men and women; trade unions alone cannot protect working women; woman suffrage could uplift politics... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Suffrage not wanted, argue Anti-suffragists at NY Senate Hearings on Tax suffrage in third class cities

Suffrage not wanted, argue Anti-suffragists at NY Senate Hearings on T...

Mrs. W. W. Crannell opposes third class cities tax suffrage bill; men better able to decide on government issues; criticizes Senators Raines and Nixon and Anne Fitzhugh Miller.

Annual Appeal of Women Suffragists

Annual Appeal of Women Suffragists

Excerpts from Anne Fitzhugh Miller's address at state legislative hearings noting taxation justifies representation and that she would rather be giving "something for nothing" than be responsible for taking "so... More

Women Will March On Albany To-Day

Women Will March On Albany To-Day

125 suffragists and 80 anti suffragists travel from New York City to Albany to attend suffrage hearings. Comments by Harriot Stanton Blatch and Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge.

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women Eleventh Annual Report

New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to...

List of officers and standing committees; report of executive committee summarizes state legislative history of third class cities tax suffrage and concurrent resolution for suffrage constitutional amendment, p... More

Suffragists and Anti-Suffragists at New York State Fair

Suffragists and Anti-Suffragists at New York State Fair

Mrs. Gilbert Jones anti-suffrage speech at New York state fair converts Katherine Sedgwich Burlingame, leading Syracuse philanthropist, to suffrage cause.

Anti's Urge Offices for Women - Public domain document scan

Anti's Urge Offices for Women - Public domain document scan

Reprints New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage letter to New York Governor Hughes urging him to appoint more women to state boards and committees as the "safest method of utilizing at the present... More

Governor is Besieged by Women Folk

Governor is Besieged by Women Folk

Clipping on February 1908 hearings inadvertently placed with 1909 hearing coverage. Gov. Charles Hughes says suffrage decision rests with women

Votes for Women Strongly Urged - Public domain document scan

Votes for Women Strongly Urged - Public domain document scan

Extracts from speeches of Mrs. William Forse Scott and Mary Dean Adams, against women immigrants voting; Ella Hawley Crossett and Fanny Garrison Villard stress large number of organizations supporting woman suf... More

Women in Albany in Ballot Battle

Women in Albany in Ballot Battle

Suffragists and reporters barred from anti-suffragists' railroad car; lists speakers and participants at crowded suffrage hearings; extracts from Anna Howard Shaw's speech.

A Brief Sojourn in Baltimore and The Sun; Woman Suffragists and Their Opponents

A Brief Sojourn in Baltimore and The Sun; Woman Suffragists and Their ...

In Springfield Sunday Republican, March 4, 1906, Clementina Dawes Nahmer describes National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention events and attendees including Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh... More

Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman Suffrage Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary on the House of Representatives
Woman suffrage has champions, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Woman suffrage has champions, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Senator William Armstrong and Susan B Anthony suggest strategies for woman suffrage campaign: letters, petitions, delegations, municipal suffrage for tax-paying women; constitutional amendment requirements

Opposition to resolution for suffrage amendment

Opposition to resolution for suffrage amendment

Quotes official anti-suffrage position which cites various suffrage campaign failures as evidence most women do not want suffrage, read by Mrs. Emil Kuichling

Suffragists at State Fair and Labor Fair

Suffragists at State Fair and Labor Fair

Suffragists secure signatures for suffrage petition at Syracuse State Fair in September, including orchestra members. Anti-suffragist Mrs. Gilbert Jones refused to debate New York State Woman Suffrage Associati... More

Women Invade Albany; Suffragists and "Antis" Attend Hearing

Women Invade Albany; Suffragists and "Antis" Attend Hearing

Mrs. Julian Heath maintains that suffrage states have accomplished little; Assemblyman William Klein napped; Margaret Doane Gardiner also contends that woman suffrage has not brought social improvement; Mrs. Fa... More

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