suffrage, women

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

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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.

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.

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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.

Jewish anti Palestine White Paper demonstrations. [Women's demonstrati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ballot song of American women - Public domain music sheet scan

E272704 U.S. Copyright Office 19111221 For mixed chorus (SATB) and piano. "Published for the Woman Suffrage Party." Staff notation.

Woman's rights - Public domain American popular sheet music

E266273 U.S. Copyright Office 19110919 For voice and piano. "Copyright 1911 by Miss E.W. Filley"--Page 3. Includes advertisement for other music. English words; also printed as text. Staff notation.

Women's Political Union march - Public domain American popular sheet m...

E257373 U.S. Copyright Office 19110502 For voice and piano. Title from caption. "Especially composed for the Women's Political Union; printed for the Women's Political Union." Staff notation.

Votes for women : (song) - Public domain American popular sheet music

E315381 U.S. Copyright Office 19130730 For voice and piano. Staff notation.

Votes for women : suffrage rallying song

E372824 U.S. Copyright Office 19151011 For voice and piano. "To Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and the great cause of woman suffrage"--Caption. Color illustration depicts the U.S. flag, suffrage flags, and liberty bell. ... More

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Miscellany, 1840-1946; Speeches; Blatch...

The women's vote in Kansas

This is a tabulation of votes cast by women in Kansas following the passage of municipal suffrage legislation in April 1887. It suggests that women exercised their franchise in a responsible and intelligent man... More

Mind the baby, I must vote to-day

E352210 U.S. Copyright Office 19141016 For voice and piano. Illustration depicts a man rocking a crying baby while a suit-clad woman leaves to vote. Staff notation.

Mind the baby, I must vote to-day

E352210 U.S. Copyright Office 19141016 For voice and piano. Illustration depicts a man rocking a crying baby while a suit-clad woman leaves to vote. Staff notation.

Susan B. Anthony Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1895; 1861; What ...

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Printed matter; Gen...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Speech and Article File, 1892-1946; Articl...

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Printed matter; Gre...

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Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Miscellany; Bookplate

Susan B. Anthony Papers: Scrapbooks, 1876-1934; Clippings, 1890-1934

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Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Subject File, 1848-1950; Biographical pape...

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

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

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...

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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

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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]

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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

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]

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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

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

Woman's suffrage songs - Public domain music sheet scan

E323273 U.S. Copyright Office 1913 Songs for voice and piano. Actually published by Pauline Russell Browne (not Paulinie). "For public meetings, conventions, entertainments or vaudeville." "Songs sung at the In... More

The dawning - Public domain American popular sheet music

E403715 U.S. Copyright Office 19170608 For voice and piano. Title from caption. "Composed and published by Minnie Graves Watson"--Cover. Color illustration depicts the figure of Justice holding scales before th... More

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947; E...

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; 1939, Ma...

Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment : woman's suffrage in t...

Sara J. Spencer and Sarah E. Webster each brought cases before the court in the District of Columbia arguing that they were enfranchised by the Fourteenth Amendment. This pamphlet contains the arguments of thei... More

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Subject File, 1848-1950; Seneca Falls Conv...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Miscellany, 1840-1946; Biographical dat...

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Clippings; Unarrang...

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Which? A timely question [man labeled "popular vote" looking at Republ...

Wood engraving after drawing by Matt. Morgan. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 65 (1888 July 21), p. 357.

Miss Julia Marlowe of New York, the well known actress, is one of the ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of actress Julia Marlowe, hair loose, facing camera. Research indicates uncropped version of this photograph was published as a postcard by the ... More

[May I. Condon.], Washington DC

Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, May I. Condon, seated on stone bench, facing left with upper body and head turned toward camera wearing fur-trimmed coat and wide-brimmed hat. Title derived from folder heading.

Mrs. Francis Hemingway. - Public domain portrait print

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Mrs. Francis Hemingway, standing with left arm resting on [back of chair], facing front with head and eyes turned slightly to the left, weari... More

Women Suffrage Dead in both New York Assembly and Senate

After discussing pros and cons of Toombs' suffrage resolution, New York Assembly vote not to discharge Judiciary Committee from consideration; many members avoid voting; suffrage contingent in attendance, inclu... More

[Women's Suffrage] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Mrs. Lillian Harris Coffin, Pres[ident] New era League, Hotel San Fran...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, seated, Lillian Harris Coffin, president of New Era League, wearing full-length dress with necklace and p... More