women suffrage

Sarah [...] Suffragette[?] - Public domain portrait photograph

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

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]

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National Anti-Suffrage Association

Photograph shows men looking at material posted in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters; sign in window reads "Headquarters National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage".

[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

"All together now! Stop her!"

Illustration shows several diminutive figures, men and women, hanging onto the robe labeled "Woman Suffrage" and sandal of a gigantic woman who is striding forward; a placard lying on the ground states "Anti-Su... 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.

Gov. Gardner signing resolution ratifying amendment to U.S. Constituti...

Photograph shows a large group, mostly women, standing around a table in the office of Missouri Governor Frederick Gardner as he signs the resolution ratifying the 19th constitutional amendment; Missouri became... More

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.

Frances E. Willard, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Frances E. Willard, facing forward with head slightly turned to the left, wearing eyeglasses and dress with high, ruffl... More

Isabella B. Hooker and John Hooker, 1893

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, seated outside on chairs, Isabella Beecher Hooker, wearing dress, shawl, and cap, holding piece of paper in right hand and looking over at J... More

Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg elected to Finnish Assembly

Nineteen women elected to national legislature in Finland in March 1907.

Women in the home ... National American woman suffrage association. He...

Title.; Woman suffrage.; On verso: {stamp} D. of D. May 10, 1910; 09-83-443.3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... More

Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Page is Presi...

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Ida F. Hasley, St. Chrmn, Oklahoma

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Ida F. Hasley, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing fur stole.

Anne Tillery Renshaw, Washington DC

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

Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago and Washington, D.C., is one of th...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, half-length, Jessie Hardy Stubbs, facing forward, wearing short-brimmed hat, gloves, plaid suit with sailor-style blouse and necktie, carrying bri... More

Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, later Mrs. Benton Mackaye, also known as "Be...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter portrait of Jessie Hardy [MacKaye] facing camera, in light-colored suit, hand in pocket, wearing hat. Autographed in ink "Love and greetings f... More

Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Cong[ressional] Union, 1913

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, studio portrait of Lucy Burns, cofounder of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, later National Woman's Party, seated in... More

Miss Rebecca Hourwich of New York

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Rebecca Hourwich, facing forward with head cocked slightly to the left, wearing blouse, large brooch, and jacket..

[Suffrage demonstration at Park Row, New York City]

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Inez Milholland Boissevain preparing to lead the March 3, 1913, suffr...

Summary: Photograph of Inez Milholland, full-length, facing forward, wearing white robes and a crown, astride a white horse in front of a crowd on a street in Washington, D.C. Title derived from Library of Cong... More

Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr of New York is one of the prominent members of ...

Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Rheta Childe Dorr, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding eye glasses in right hand and newspaper in left hand, wearing corduroy su... More

"Oh! - Tee-hee! - Horrors!" / Nels. Greene ; drawn by Nelson Greene.

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Votes for Women" is entering a bedroom, she is carrying a hat and two hatpins; an elderly man labeled "Male Voter", smoking, is lying on a bed labeled "Equal Suffrage", on th... More

[Horse drawn float declares National American Woman Suffrage Associati...

Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Elizabeth Stuyvesant, State Organizer, National Woman's Party, her gre...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head portrait of Elizabeth Stuyvesant, with ribbon in her hair. Shoulders are sketched in with pencil. Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York City, formerly of Cincinnati, was a ... More

Band-wagon biography / McCutcheon., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a four panel cartoon depicting four stages in a man's life, first as a child he laughs at the idea "that women had a right to vote", later as a college student he "denounced Susan B. Anthony"... More

The mascot / painted by Rolf Armstrong.

Illustration shows head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman wearing a uniform and Puck holding a large pencil, both wear sashes labeled "Votes for Women". Illus. in: Puck, v. 77, no. 1981 (1915 February 20), cov... More

Miss Joy Young, of Washington, D.C. Assistant Editor of "The Suffragis...

Joy Young of New York City, formerly of Washington, D.C., was the wife of Merrill Rogers. She worked as an assistant on the staff of The Suffragist and later became an organizer for the NWP in various parts of ... More

Mrs. Annie G. Porritt, Hartford, Conn., Press Chairman Connecticut

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Annie G. Porritt, in dark dress with brooch. Descriptive caption on alternate item: "Mrs. Annie Porritt of Hartford, Conn., is one of the p... More

Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for ...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mary... More

TR speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] [1] /

Three sequences of TR addressing groups from the porch at Sagamore Hill. First sequence is TR speaking to a group of people on Sept. 8, 1917 at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign at Saga... More

The first picket line - College day in the picket line

Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. Forms part of: National Woman's Party records, Manuscript Division.

Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members leaving a prison building. Warden Zinkham (left).

[Grand Picket at the White House, eve of President Woodrow Wilson's se...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph on a rainy day of a woman standing on chair in slicker and rain hat speaking through a megaphone to suffragists standing with suffrage banners. On... More

Maryland Day [picketing the White House for suffrage]

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of suffragists marching in contingent with banners, picketing outside on the sidewalk in front ... More

[Mrs.] Lawrence Lewis [Dora Lewis] of Philadelphia on release from jai...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis (Dora Lewis) (center) upon her release from jail, where she participated in hunger strike after arrest at Lafayette Square meeting... More

Mrs. Sarah Colvin of St. Paul, newly elected National chairman of the ...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Sarah T. Colvin of St. Paul, Minnesota, standing in front of National Woman’s Party headquarters, Jacks... More

Conferring over ratification [of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Consti...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of six National Woman's Party members gathered around a table. Left to R: Dora Lewis (seated), Abby Scott Baker (seated), Anita Pollitzer (standing), Alice Paul ... More

Lucy Branham on Prison Special, San Francisco, California

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

Suffragette - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Alice Paul and a delegation consulting with Governor Cox on the suffra...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members and Alice Paul gathered with Governor Cox on steps to a building, with photographers and cameras on tripods in the foreground.

Starting for ceremonial of dedication for Alva Belmont House.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three young women, in robed costume, coming down the stairs of the Alva Belmont House with banners.

Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, who donated the headquarters of the Nationa...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alva Belmont (standing) speaking, wearing eyeglasses and using notes in hand, with others (men, front row, and women, back row) seated on stage.

Tillers of the Soil. Betty Rolfe, Maud Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Martha ...

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

The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast. Ne...

Illustration showing at top of page, several men at a polling place where an African American man places his ballot in the box for "Re[publ]ican Mayor Welch" which is next to the empty ballot box for "The White... More

The awakening / Hy Mayer. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the r... More

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

Shall women vote? / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a man labeled "Graft Politics" paying, with his left hand, a tramp labeled "Floater" at the end of a line of tramps outside a polling place, while with his right hand he attempts to stop a wo... More

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

Progress of Woman Suffrage in Finland and Norway

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

[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

Lucretia Mott. - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Washington, D.C. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representativ...

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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

[Suffrage parade, New York City(?)]

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of procession, parade in New York, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jane Addams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Copyright by Ed. D. Waters. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - 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.

Election Day! - Public domain drawing

J72583 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.W. Gustin. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

[Men's League for Woman Suffrage, Miller Scrapbook]

Two pages from the Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller, with a photograph of Nathaniel Schmidt, brochures, clippings and other ephemera related to the Men's League for Woman Suffrage a... More

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

Suffragists' march to the Capitol, Apr. 7, 1913

Photograph shows police escorting women suffragists marching in parade in Washington, D.C., carrying banners representing their individual states. No. 3.

Woman suffrage parade, Wash., D.C.

Photograph shows women on horseback marching in parade behind flag-bearers on Pennsylvania Ave.; horse and cart pulling large sign "We demand an amendment to the constitution of the United States enfranchising ... 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

Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C.

Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue led by Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson (center on horseback); U.S. Capitol in background.

The march to Washington - Public domain drawing

Three cartoons depicting the National American Women's Suffrage Association march to Washington in March 1913 by women suffragists. Includes: "Spirit of 1913" by Berryman showing three women marching in snow an... 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