constitutional amendments

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

A bill of rights as provided in the ten original amendments to the con...

Printed on parchment paper.; Gift. Senator Robert L. Owen Oct. 14, 1942.; On verso: Bill of Rights; Gift Robert L. Owen Oct. 14, 1942. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as f... 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)

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

Go ERA : 3, 2, 1, go - A close up of a sign with numbers on it

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original ...

Another of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment, on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment and showing the grand May 19 celebratory parade in Baltimore. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3)... More

The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original ...

Another of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment, on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment and showing the grand May 19 celebratory parade in Baltimore. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3)... More

Miss Eleanor Brannan (granddaughter of Cha[rle]s. A. Dana, former edit...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal studio portrait of Eleanor Doddridge Brannan, seated, wearing a hat, pearl necklace, pendant on a chain, gloves, and a long dres... More

Mildred Koonce, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mildred Koonce, facing left, looking toward camera, in hat and stole.

Miss Anna McCue is one of the organizers of the Congressional Union fo...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Anna McCue, facing camera, with bar brooch.

Mrs. Emma Smith Devoe, of Seattle, Washington, is President of the Nat...

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

Julia Ward Howe. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, Julia Ward Howe, full-length, seated, facing left, looking downward at book in lap, reading by a window, and wearing cap and shawl.

Miss Alice B. Henkle., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Alice B. Henkle, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing light colored, v-neck blouse... More

Miss Julia Emory of Baltimore Md.

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

Mrs. Minnie E. Brooke, of Chevy Chase, Md., an experienced suffrage sp...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, of Minnie E. Brooke of Chevy Chase, Maryland, wearing a hat, earrings, necklace, and open-collared... More

Mrs. Hettie Wallis of Houston, Texas, is a member of the National Advi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Hettie Wallis, wearing off-the-shoulder lace-trimmed gown, hair in upsweep, decorative background.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Speaker at Continental Hall.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Carrie Chapman Catt, facing forward with head and eyes turned slightly to right, wearing a high-collared, richly brocaded or embroidere... More

Reception to U.S. Senate Petitioners, Hyattsville, MD, July 31, 1913

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Postcard image of people driving cars, tops-down, through a field.

Women Representing Foreign Countries Suffragette's Parade - March 3, 1...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of women in various ethnic dress marching in a parade while crowds of people watch. Striped awnings in background and lamp post in foreground. On verso: Foreign natio... More

Miss Janet Fotheringham, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was in the first group ...

Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Janet Fotheringham of Buffalo, New York, facing camera, wearing wide-collared, v-neck blouse or dress, with pin. Summary: Title transcribed from image. Janet Fotheringham of... More

Arrival in Washington in March 1913 of Rosalie Jones' band of pilgrims...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of procession in street surrounded by large crowds of people.

Miss Elsie Lancaster, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title transcribed from item. Elsa Lancaster traveled to Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 28, 1914, with plans to open a Congressional Union headquarters there on October 1, 1914, in conjunction with CU organizer Ge... More

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arrival Envoys from San F[rancisco]. Parade arriving at Capitol.

Title transcribed from item. A similar photograph was published in The Suffragist, vol. 3, no. 50 (December 11, 1915). Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists on Capitol steps, some with banners, one ... More

[Women's rights activists Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Alice Paul]

Public domain photograph of ship, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Elsa Ueland, Congressional Union organizer

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Action photograph of Elsa Ueland speaking at outdoor rally, Minnesota Congressional Union banner behind her, wearing suit, hat, and suffrage sash. Portions of buildings vis... More

F[lorence] B[ayard] Hilles.. National Woman Party

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

Miss Natalie Gray, of Colorado Springs, Colo. Miss Gray will [be] ch...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Natalie H. Gray of Colorado, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing sailor-style blo... More

Miss Gertrude Crocker of Illinois, Treasurer of National Woman's Party...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Gertrude Crocker of Illinois, wearing cotton v-neck dress or blouse with broad collar, lace trim, ... More

Miss Mabel Vernon, National Secretary, National Woman's Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mabel Vernon, in dark broad-brimmed hat, wearing light-colored suit with lace-collared blouse and pendant necklace. Cropped version of the ph... More

Cell at Occoquan [Workhouse]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a prison cell in Occoquan Workhouse seen through door with bars.

Taking suffrage prisoners from D.C. Court House to prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of arrested National Woman's Party members being loaded into a vehicle just inside garage entrance to brick building, overseen by police and onlookers.

Miss Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pennsylvania A picket who served t...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Kate Heffelfinger, facing right, with chin resting on arm bent at elbow, wearing a v-neck dress with suffrage prisoner ... More

Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye of Washington, D.C., member of National Advi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jessie Hardy MacKaye with banner in front of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage building. Banner reads: Forward Out of Error Leave Behind the Night Forwar... More

Minnesota Day on the picket line. In center, Miss A.H. Potter of Minne...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Five women pickets from Minnesota standing with their banners in front of NWP headquarters. Banners read: "Scandinavian Suffrage Association of Minnesota" and "Minnesota Br... More

Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Washington, D.C., Office Manager of The Suffr...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Elizabeth Smith, in v-neck ruffled white blouse. Cropped version of photograph printed in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917), 11. Portr... More

Miss Vivian Pierce of San Diego, Cal[ifornia]

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

Olive Mills Belches, State Chairman of Massachusetts[achusetts].

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, of Olive Mills Belches, seated at desk in front of typewriter facing camera. The caption on an alternate image in the same folder, which appea... More

Berthe Arnold. - Public domain portrait print

Summary: Informal, full-length portrait of Berthe Arnold of Colorado Springs, Colorado, wearing a hat and fur-trimmed coat with a bouquet of flowers pinned on the front, looking downward at an urn containing a ... More

Miss Virginia Moran of Seneca Falls as "Truth" in the Dnace [Dance] Dr...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Virginia Moran, facing forward, standing outdoors by a lake, holding in right hand a pole with a stylized cross, part of a c... More

Doris Stevens working with Women's Consultative Committee at League of...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Doris Stevens and Alice Paul in a room with other women. Also on verso: La Srta. Doris Stevens, presidenta de la Comision Interamericana de Mujeres, firmande ... More

ERA 1977 - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

There are very few persons who still think it is unimportant to balanc...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The eighteenth amendment and its enforcement. Address by Wayne B. Whee...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 138, Folder 24c.

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

Library bill of rights. [Chicago, Printed by the Norman Press, 1962].

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 18, Folder 73.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Two great pioneers in the...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading while seated at table.

Some reasons why we oppose votes for women ... National association op...

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 13c.

Miss Rose Schneiderman, New York, Vice-President of the Women's Trade ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Rose Schneiderman, facing forward, wearing high-collared dress or blouse with large bow at neck. Verso: "Please return to E... More

Mrs. Ida Mae Waters, standing, [and] Mrs. Florence B. Morrill, active ...

Picryl description: Public domain image - 19th-century female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Isabella Mott. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Studio portrait of Isabella Mott, seated, facing forward, in square-necked lace blouse and flowered skirt.

Miss Eleanor Weed [Helena Hill Weed].

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Helena Hill Weed, seated, wearing white dress-gown with bow at empire waist and ruffled net over-the shoulder sleeves, decorative curtain in background.

Since my Margaret become a suffragette

National American Woman's Suffrage Association Convention, Dr. Anna Ho...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of NAWSA convention proceeding, with women on stage, facing a audience. Anna Howard Shaw, standing, center, speaking from notes. Women on main floor and balcony.... More

Mrs. Pattie Jacobs, President of Alabama Suffrage Association.

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of Alabama, facing right with head turned slightly toward camera, wearing light, lace-patterned dress. The caption o... More

Distributing hand bills advertising Inaugural Suffrage Parade and invi...

A group of people standing on a street. A group of people standing on a street. Public domain postcard scan.

Open air meeting at Washington, D.C., March 1913, calling upon Congres...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Open-air photograph of Elizabeth S. Rogers speaking, half-length, in profile, wearing fur coat and hat. A man in bowler hat and a woman in hat with scarf securing it to her... More

E[mmeline] Pankhurst - Victorian era public domain image

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, Emmeline Pankhurst, three-quarter length, seated in chair, facing slightly right with head turned toward camera, wearing high-collared blou... More

Fall in line record label, Victor records

Public domain photograph related to Victor Records, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Victor Records was one of the leading record labels of the early 20th century founded in 19... More

[Women marching in national suffrage demonstration in Washington, D.C....

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of suffragists in sashes marching down the street past The Washington Post building, flanked by policemen.

Mrs. Ella M. Dean of Montana is the official hostess of the Congressio...

Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Ella M. Dean, wearing loose, open-neck dress. Title transcribed from item. Date of photograph deduced from information in caption. The Woman Voters Convention at th... More

Bertha Moller, left, and Bertha Arnold hold party banner which was hel...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of two women in hats and coats holding up a banner, Berthe Moller (Left) and Bertha Arnold ( R), standing in front of NWP headquarters. Banner reads: "We protest... More

Cell blocks at Occoquan [Workhouse]

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of the exterior of cell blocks at Occoquan prison.

D.C. prison where suffrage pickets were confined.

["Silent sentinel" Alison Turnbull Hopkins at the White House on New J...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Alison Turnbull Hopkins with banner, "Mr. President How long must women wait for liberty," picketing for suffrage outside White House gate. Pho... More

Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Mary Winsor, standing outside, holding a banner that reads: "To Ask Freedom for Women is Not... More

Miss Grace Needham, of Washington, D.C., national organization secreta...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Grace Needham, in lace collar and dark jacket. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 67 (May 5, 1917): 9. Captioned: "Miss Grace Needha... More

Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Helena Hill Weed, facing forward, standing behind bars in a prison cell. Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, Conn., was a graduate of Vassar Col... More

[Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul with "...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sue S. White, Chairman, Tenn. N.W.P. [Tennessee National Woman's Party...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter-length portrait of Sue Shelton White, standing, leaning against table with decorative carved legs, left hand resting on table behind her, with right hand in s... More

[Mrs. James Rector of Columbus, Ohio consulting with W.D. Jameson on t...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Organizing the First Convention of Women Voters Since Suffrage Passed....

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Six National Woman's Party members gathered around a desk at National Woman's Party headquarters. Left to right: Mabel Vernon, Dora Lewis, Alice Paul (seated), Florence Bre... More

Lady Anne Azgapetian, wife of General Azgapetian, of Armenia, who will...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait of Lady Anne Azgapetian, wife of General Azgapetian of Armenia, seated and holding daughter Araxie Azgapetian in her lap, both wearing hats and richly broca... More

A breathing spell between campaigns - Miss Anita Pollitzer (left) and ...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Anita Pollitzer (left), wearing wide-brimmed floppy hat, gloves, and fur-trimmed coat standing on outside steps near stone bulletin bo... More

Fourth Headquarters - 1922-1929 National Woman's Party, 21-25 First St...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party headquarters, exterior.

Alice Paul, leader of the feminist movement in America and vice presid...

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

Justice. Miss Florence Hanlin as Justice in the Dance Drama presented ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, full-length, Florence Hanlin, facing left, standing outside in front of lake, posing as Justice, holding scales in outstretched hand and wearing l... More

[Three women sit outside during conference convened by NWP National Co...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women sitting on grass in front of building with banner, "National Woman's Party."

Miss Zonia Baber, representative in United States of the women of Port...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, seated, Miss Zonia Baber (left), representative of the women of Puerto Rico, and Burnita Shelton Matthews (right), legal research secretary ... More