constitutional amendments

Miss Ting in attendance at the International Conference of Women Physi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Miss Ting, standing by window, facing camera, hands clasped before her, wearing Chinese dress and watch, with pen inserted in dress near collar.

Colorado's ratification of suffrage amendment, Dec. 12, 1919.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of crowd of people standing around desk as ratification document is signed.

Miss Maude Younger of California, Chairman Legislative Committee Natio...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Maude Younger, facing slightly to the right with head turned toward camera, wearing wide-brimmed hat with ribbon on ban... More

The Public Health Nurse is a friend and gets met at the station! In mo...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a public health nurse, outside with hat and bag, standing next to burro carrying four children.

Party members picketing the Republican convention, Chicago, June 1920....

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women holding banners outside in front of stores. Banners read "Tennessee," "Connecticut," and "We protest against the continued disfranchisement of women for... More

L-R: Mme. Wicksell of Sweden, Dr. Bonnevie of Norway, Mme. Forchhamer ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three women in coats and hats standing outside in front of a doorway.

Speaker Gillette, Jane Addams and Sarah Bard Field, the three Speakers...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Speaker of the House Gillette, Jane Addams and Sara Bard Field in front of the statue of pioneer suffragists in the Capitol.

Senator Rebecca Felton, [first] woman U.S. senator.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Rebecca Latimer Felton, in bifocal eye glasses, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing dark, high-collared dress, and short-br... More

Our Bill of Rights is everybody's business / Stanley Dersh.

Print shows an early American courtroom scene labeled "Trial by Jury" with a man, possibly a jury foreman, standing next to the jury box, presenting a statement; another man sits in the foreground, at a desk on... More

The Fifteenth amendment - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment. A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19t... More

My policies. Part 3, theatrical script

Public domain photograph related to baseball, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National American Women Suffrage, St. Louis, 3-25-19

Photographer's address: 614 Olive Street. Forms part of National Women's Trade Union League of America collection. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1952.

A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are... More

Women voting at Pitt. - Public domain photograph

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Inevitable / Keppler. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows Columbia standing on a globe labeled "United States", holding a balance scale labeled "Constitutional Amendment" on which rests a large sword labeled "Centralized Government". Illus. in: Puc... More

"Bryan's my man--Who's yours?" / Keller.

Postcard showing a portrait of a woman of status with a caption saying, "Bryan's my man-Who's yours?", suggesting her support for William Jennings Bryan during his third bid for president in 1908 in which he us... More

18th Amendment of the Constitution

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Caroline Spencer. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Caroline E. Spencer, facing slightly left with head turned toward camera, wearing eyeglasses, hat, and coat, over lace-collare... More

Women's Political Union delegation, Western New York, ca. 1910-1915. P...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three women and two men standing next to ox-driven wagon with banner, "Votes for Women." Another woman sits on a horse nearby.

Elizabeth Freeman. - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Frederick (Mary) Nolan. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mary A. Nolan, facing forward, with lace collar and necklace. Mrs. Mary A. Nolan of Jacksonville, Fla., was often described... More

[Mrs. W. Thompson Burch] - Public domain portrait photograph

Summary: Full-length, studio portrait of Mrs. W. Thompson Burch, standing in a long formal dress facing right with head turned toward camera. Title taken from duplicate image in the same folder. Name and addres... More

Amalia E. Mallen de Ostalaza, Pres. of Nat[ional] Suffrage Party of Cu...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Women, including those representing the states of Wisconsin and Orego...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of contingents of suffragists marching with banners on street. Banners read: "Delegations From Womans Clubs", "Wisconsin," and "Oregon."

Mrs. George A. Fowler, Sr., chairman Colorado Branch, [National Woman’...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, standing, Bertha W. Fowler of Colorado, facing left with head slightly turned toward camera, we... More

[New Jersey delegates in front of Congressional Union headquarters.]

Summary: Photograph of large group of women standing on front steps and street in front of building, National American Woman Suffrage Association office, lower level, Wilcox, Hane & Co. Real Estate office and C... More

Miss Hazel MacKaye - A black and white photo of a woman holding a dog

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal half-length photograph of Hazel MacKaye in outdoor setting, wearing checked dress with button trim and white collar, smiling, holding a medium-sized dog in her arm... More

Miss Ada James of Wisconsin is one of the prominent members of the Adv...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Ada L. James of Wisconsin, facing right with head turned slightly toward camera, wearing high-nec... More

Mrs. Edith Barriger, state chairman of Missouri for Congressional Unio...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Edith Barriger, Missouri state chairman of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, wearing wide-brimmed hat, necklace, and brooch. ... More

[Women on horseback in suffrage parade, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1914....

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mrs. Mary Austin, of California, the noted writer, [is] a prominent me...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders turned slightly to right facing camera, of writer Mary Hunter Austin of California, who served on the Congressional Union National Advis... More

Miriam Rollin - 1298 College Avenue, New York City (Age 23)

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, Miriam Rollin, seated on a balustrade, facing right with head turned back toward camera, wearing long skirt, blouse, and vest.... More

Mrs. Robert Morton, Chairman of Wyoming Branch of National Woman's Par...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vida Milholland, New York City, New York City

Summary: Half-length studio portrait of Vida Milholland, seated on decorative bench, turned to look toward camera, wearing fur-trimmed embroidered jacket and large-brimmed hat, decorated with ruffle trim, beadw... More

Rose Winslow of New York; daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Rose Winslow (born Ruza Wenclawska, Poland], wearing dark jumper and white blouse, with dark tam. Cropped version of the photograph published in The... More

Mrs. Margaret B. Laird, 34 Goldsmith Ave., Newark N.J. For four years...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Margaret B. Laird, facing forward, with necklace.

Miss Berta Crone of San Francisco on the CUWS [Congressional Union for...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Police arrest pickets, August 1917.]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of crowds of people outside around a police wagon.

Lincoln's birthday. On the banners during Congressional debate on whet...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Six National Woman's Party activists display three banners about woman suffrage, tall lattice fence in background. Banner on left (held by two women) reads: "Denmark on the... More

Mary Dubrow speaking in Washington, D.C.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Mary Dubrow, left, speaking to crowd of men, women, and children at public park, Washington, D.C. Baby in bassinette at front of audience, policemen looking on. Similar ima... More

[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Stat...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Jessie Benton MacKaye speaking (second from left,... More

Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, Baltimore, Md., who will speak at Woman's Party...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Edith Houghton Hooker, facing slightly to the left with head turned toward camera and tilted slightly back, wearing lace-tr... More

Gov[ernor] Emmett D. Boyle of Nevada signing resolution for ratificati...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of suffragists watching the governor of Nevada sign resolution for ratification in his office.

The Bill of Rights. Public domain reproduction.

Photograph shows reproduction of original Bill of Rights. As proposed Mar. 4, 1789 submitted to States, Sept. 25, 1789. Articles 3-12 became amendments I-X of Constitution, Dec. 15, 1791.

Republican [National] Convention, [Chicago, Illinois,] 1920.

Title derived from Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of six suffragists at the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago, gathered in front of a building with suffrage banners. Mrs. James Rect... More

Dedication of Women's Pioneer Statue in U.S. Capitol crypt, Feb. 15, 1...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of large group of women with banners gathered around the Women's Pioneer Statue in the Capitol.

[Young girls carry banners for the procession at dedication of the new...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of large contingent of girls in white dresses assembled in street in four columns, with banners.

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

Emancipation Proclamation. Proclamation by the governor / E. Knobel, f...

One of two large commemorative prints marking the ordinance issued by Missouri governor Thomas C. Fletcher, proclaiming the immediate emancipation of slaves in that state. The Missouri ordinance was issued on J... More

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

A slightly altered version of another print by the same title also issued by Metcalf and Clark (no. 1870-2), commemorating the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment and its celebration in Baltimore. In the cente... More

Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865 (Joint Resolution Submitting 1...

Lucretia Mott. - Public domain portrait photograph

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Elizabeth L. Comstock, Union Springs, N.Y., and Laura S. Heaviland (Ch...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Studio portrait, full-length, seated, Elizabeth L. Comstock (left), wearing a cloak and lightweight bonnet and holding a second dress bonnet, and Laura S. Heaviland (right)... More

Cadillaqua auto parade, 1912, women's suffrage section

Public domain image of an early automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Women's Suffrage Gains Point. House Judiciary Committee agrees to subm...

House Chairman Jenkins opposed to suffrage amendment as a limit to states rights. NB: include ribbon here, as nothing specific known about it.

Mrs. Cyrus Mead [Dorothy M. Mead], of Vandalia, Ohio, state chairman o...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Dorothy M. Mead (Mrs. Cyrus Mead), seated in chair, facing right. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 10 (Mar. 16,... More

Dr. Mary Parsons, 1st woman physician to practice medicine south of Ma...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, Dr. Mary Parsons, leaning against wall, facing forward, wearing outer garment over dress with brooch and eyeglasses.

Dean Emma M. [N.] Gillette - in honor of whose memory - services will ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Dr. Emma N. Gillette, facing slightly to the right with head turned front toward camera, wearing cap and gown. Verso: "Retu... More

Mrs. Stephen Pell [Sarah Thompson Pell], 777 Madison Av, NYC, Finance ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Sarah Thompson Pell, facing right, wearing dark dress with white lace collar, necklace and earrings. Descriptive label on alt... More

Mrs. Charles de Loosey Oelrichs is one of the prominent members of the...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Oval portrait of Mrs. Charles Deloosey Oelrichs [and daughter?] in formal gowns.

Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, of New York. Member of National Advi...

Title and photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of lawyer and suffrage activist Inez Milholland Boissevain, facing left and looking toward camera, wearing a sleeveless, low-c... More

[Mrs. Margaret Zane Cherdron, Utah, State Chairman for Woman's Party i...

Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, face in profile turned to right, Margaret Zane Witcher Cherdron, wearing high-necked, lace-trimmed collar. Title transcribed from caption on identical print in same... More

Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-ch...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of Mary Bartelme, second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party and judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago, seated at paper-covere... More

Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman, N.Y. City Committee, C.U. [Congression...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, seated and looking downward at book on lap, of Alice Carpenter, chairman of New York City Committee, Congressional Union, wearing v-n... More

Liberty and her Attendants - (Suffragette's Tableau) in Front of Treas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and girls in Greek costume in suffrage tableau in front of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. Central figure is dressed in toga as Liberty. On vers... More

Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists who took part in Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession of May 9, 1914, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol (those... More

Mrs. George T. Odell, of Washington, D.C., vice-chairman of the Legisl...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Mrs. George Talbot Odell, seated, gloved hands in lap, wearing dark fur-trimmed jacket with fur muff, and broad-brimmed hat with feather. Altern... More

Mrs. Janice Rector of Columbus, member Advisory Council of National Wo...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Kenyon Hayden Rector, facing right, wearing hat and holding pocketbook under left arm, standing outdoors in front o... More

Mrs. Oscar F. Davisson of Dayton, Ohio, is one of the most recent memb...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Jesse Leech Davisson, facing left with head turned partly toward camera.

[Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of group of smiling women and two children standing with banners on sidewalk. Banner on left: "We demand an amendment to the United States Constit... More

Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, California, member national advisory council of Co...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated in chair, Phoebe Apperson Hearst of California, facing left with head turned toward camera, right... More

Campaign in Oregon-- Margaret Fay Whittemore, Mary Gertrude Fendall, P...

Title and date transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of man driving two women (Mary G. Fendall, left, and Margaret Whittemore, right) in car on street. Banner on car: "We Demand an Amendment to the U.S. Co... More

Miss Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, of Portland, Me., has been as...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, wearing straw hat, checked jacket, and white collared shirt. Schuyler was secretary to Alva Belmont (1853-1933).

Mrs. J.A.H. [Alison Turnbull] Hopkins' car in front of N.J. Headquarte...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mrs. Morris B. Mead (Left) of South Orange, N.J., and Miss Agnes F. Campbell (Right), organizer, tying suffrage banner ("We Demand An Amendment to the United ... More

Tier in D.C. prison where suffragists were confined in 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of interior of prison, with cells, tables and chairs.

Miss Anne Martin, of Reno, Nevada, legislative chairman of the Nationa...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, Anne Martin, facing forward, seated in chair, with body turned slightly to left, wearing a suit with open-collared bl... More

Mrs. Alexandra Shields, Born West Point, Ga., Home Amarillo, Texas. O...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mrs. Alexander Shields, with short hair and bare shoulders.

Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washing...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jeanette Rankin, with hat, fur muff, and issue of The Suffragist, in storefront doorway with two unidentified women, who also hold copies of the paper.

Peaceful Picket - The great interest of people in the picket line - bu...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of crowd of people watching picketing women outside the gate of the White House, with passerbys on sidewalk (women, men, children). Photograph published in The S... More

Mary Gertrude Fendall, [of Maryland], and Mary Dubrow [of New Jersey].

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Mary Gertrude Fendall (left) and Mary Dubrow (right) standing outside what is likely National Woman's Party headquarters, holding betwe... More

Suffrage demonstration at Lafayette Statue (to get the last vote in th...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of five National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Lucy Branham, center, is burning President Wilson's words. ... More

Baggage for Prison Special - Jackson Place Hdqtrs on Lafayette Sq.

[Three National Woman's Party members with "Wage Earners" banner durin...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women in white dresses, standing outside with two flags and banner that reads: "Wage Earners."

[Inez Milholland Memorial, Westport, N.Y., 1923]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul and a group of young women in white costumes with headbands, standing at Inez Milholland's gravesite.

Thanksgiving, 1942. Freedom to worship God in his own way--everywhere ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

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

The Fifteenth Amendment and its results / drawn by G.F. Kahl.

Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3.) A group of black men, on horseback and wearing top hats... More

James Madison. Notes for Speech on Constitutional Amendments. June 8, ...

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More

Richard J. Oglesby to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, February 01, 1865 (...

Queen Caroline. Britain's best hope!! England's sheet-anchor!!!, Briti...

British cartoon showing people praising Queen Caroline, who holds anchor, representing the Magna Charta, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the people. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection(L... 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...

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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