nineteenth amendment

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

[Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse...

Photo shows lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain riding astride in the March 3, 1913, suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., as the first of four mounted heralds. Additional information about the Bain Collection is ... More

Mrs. Bertha C. Moller of Minneapolis, Minn.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Bertha C. Moller, facing forward, wearing fur and velvet hat.

Nell Mercer, Norfolk, Virginia - Public domain portrait

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Nell Mercer, seated, with painted backdrop, wearing broad-collared suit and hat with leaves and berries. Printed as a picture postcard. Nell Mercer ... More

Miss Clara Louise Thompson of Missouri, one of the prominent members o...

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Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia[delphia] [Dora Lewis]

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

[Rosalie Jones]. - An old photo of a woman holding a bunch of flowers

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, standing, Rosalie Jones, wearing long dress and hooded cloak, holding walking stick, bouquet of flower... More

Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Pres. Ohio Woman's Suf[frage] Ass[ociation]...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Harriet Taylor Upton, in dark satin with brocade, brooch at neck.

Mrs. [Florence] Boeckel. - Public domain portrait print

Summary: Informal portrait of Florence Brewer Boeckel seated at desk, with pencil in hand, reading a typewritten document in front of her, wearing a blouse, jacket, and wide-brimmed hat with appliquéd flowers. ... More

[Suffragist Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffra...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Margaret Foley (right?) and an unidentified woman (left), both carrying pocketbooks and wearing fur-trimmed hats and fur stoles, standing outsi... More

Miss Katharine Morey, Massachusetts state chairman for the National Wo...

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

Miss Matilda Young - Public domain portrait print

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Matilda Young, facing slightly to the right with head turned slightly to the left, standing with right hand in pocket... More

Controversial Party Banner in Tucson, Ariz[ona], 1916

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street in Tucson with banner raised up across, "Women voters vote against Wilson-Ashurst-Hayden. Their party opposes national woman suffrage. National Woman's... More

Joy Young at time of Inez Milholland memorial services at [U.S.] Capit...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Joy Young, facing forward, standing outdoors on sidewalk with banner, "Without Extinction is Liberty, Without Retrograde is ... More

Abby Scott Baker. - Public domain dedication image

Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., sitting at a desk, facing left, and reading, with papers, books, and a typewriter nearby. Title supplied by Library of C... More

Miss Beulah Amidon, "The Prettiest Picket"

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Beulah Amidon, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a broad-brimmed hat. Verso: "Please return to Miss C... More

Mabel Vernon Speaking at Suffrage Rally, May, 1916

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mabel Vernon speaking to large crowd (mostly men) outside building in Chicago. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 25 (June ... More

Mrs. Frederick Forrest, Spokane, Washington, newly elected state chair...

Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mrs. Frederick Story Forrest, with head and eyes turned slightly to the left, wearing suit with ruffled blouse, wide-brimmed hat with satin and feather trim, and h... More

The Suffrage Picket Riots, Aug. 1917

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with a car, a trolley, and large crowds of people.

Miss Mildred Gilbert of San Francisco, one of the Congressional Union ...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, Mildred Gilbert, facing camera with head and eyes turned to the right, wearing close-fitting hat, t... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

An old black and white photo of a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. ... More

Jackson Place Headquarters, NWP, 1918-1920

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of exterior of Jackson Place Headquarters of the National Woman's Party.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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.

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

[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