women suffrage

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

In the days of "Old Dobbin" and Derby hats Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch...

Harriot Stanton Blatch speaking to large crowd of men, Wall Street, New York City. Title captions have separated from the image.

New York City - John Most, the anarchist, addressing a meeting of symp...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v.64, 1887 April 16, p. 133.

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.

[Congressional Union Woman's party manikin in window display, Wash., D...

Photograph shows a female mannequin dressed in white suit with sash and hat, holding the Congressional Union Woman's flag; next to mannequin is a hat placed on stand with "Votes for women" pennants drapping over.

Since my Margaret become a suffragette

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland--A. (at ...

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

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

Suffragette tableau on steps of U. S. Treasury

Photograph shows suffragettes, young girls carrying ballons, running down the steps of the U. S. Treasury towards three awaiting women. Copyright 1913 by American Press Association. Copyright registration title... 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

Alice Paul - Public domain portrait painting

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

Suffragette group - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from caption list. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Compan... More

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

Sewing stars on suffrage flag - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

[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

In the picture, which was taken before the arcade of the Broadmoor hot...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Colorado Branch National Woman's Party members gathered with NWP organizers Margaret Whittemore and Mabel Vernon, around back of a car with banner, "National ... More

[National Woman's Party Headquarters: Alva Belmont House]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of exterior of Alva Belmont House.

[Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the...

Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Mary Pickford, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a suit and hat, and holding a sheet of Equal Rights seals. Title derived by Library of Congres... More

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

Signing the declaration of their independence / Ehrhart with acknowled...

Illustration shows a group of women at a convention presenting their declaration of independence, which states "When in the course of female events it becomes necessary for women to have the ballot they're goin... More

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

[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with othe...

Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913. Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant.... More

U. S. Senate Hearing before Committee on Woman Suffrage on Joint Resol...

Statements by Anna Shaw, Belva Lockwood, Fannie Fernald of Maine, Isabel Barrows of New York, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, Ella Stewart of Illinois, Ida Husted Harper, Ella Hawley Crossett, Laura Clay, and Carrie Chap... More

Female suffrage - wouldn't it put too much power into the hands of Bri...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 29 (1869 Oct. 2), p. 56.

An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the Right of Suffrag...

In: General Laws, Memorials and Resolutions of the Territory of Wyoming, Passed at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly, Convened at Cheyenne, October 12, 1869. Cheyenne, W.T.: S. Allan Bristol, Publi... More

Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Justice of the Peace of Evanston, Ill.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Judge Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch, facing camera, in high lace collar. Judge and attorney Catherine McCulloch chaired the Legislative Co... More

Votes for Women postcard; Color Illustration of Woman Suffrage Headqua...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage New York postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. R. B. Quay, of Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the members of the Na...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mrs. R. B. (Minnie) Quay. Minnie Quay of Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested Nov. 10, 1917, while picketing the White House in Washington, D.C... More

Booth at State Fair, Where Richmond Women are Telling Visitors About G...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. W. J. Roach, of New Orleans, Treasurer of the Louisiana Branch of...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Mrs. W. J. Roach, seated in decoratively carved wood chair, wearing beaded dress and necklace.

Flora MacDonald Denison, Pres[ident] Canadian Suffrage Association.

Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, left profile, Flora MacDonald Denison, president, Canadian Suffrage Association, wearing off-the-shoulder dress. Title and name and address of photographer transcri... More

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

Summary: Photograph of the back of Mary Beard, standing in car, speaking to crowd on street, Interior Dept. building in background. Automobiles and trolley on street. Title transcribed from item. A duplicate im... More

Elizabeth Kalb, National Dept.--Nat'l Literature Dep't.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Elizabeth Green Kalb, facing forward, in embroidered v-neck. Elizabeth Green Kalb of Houston, Texas, was a graduate of Rice Institut... More

Besse Moton Garner--attorney, corresponding sect'y of Mich[igan] Branc...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of Besse Moton Garner and Margaret Whittemore, standing together by automobile, in snow, wearing overcoats with fur collars and hats.

Miss [Ida A.] Craft as she tramped from New York City to Albany - on t...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, Ida A. Craft, full-length, standing, facing right with head turned toward camera, wearing cape, hat, and gloves, and holding a walking stick in he... More

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE

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Reverend Anna Howard Shaw. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Anna Howard Shaw, facing forward, wearing coat and fur stole, standing in front of a door, with left arm bent at elbow and r... More

Mrs. John T. Morrison of Idaho is one of the prominent members of the ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mrs. John T. Morrison, facing front, wearing white blouse with floral vest, and wire-framed eyeglasses. Cropped version of the photograph pub... More

An anti-suffrage viewpoint / drawn by W.E. Hill.

Illustration shows an elderly man standing at a table with three women and another man during a New Year's party; he is concerned that his wife will find him with a female companion. Caption: Gaylord (in cafe ... More

[Billboard signs welcoming suffrage envoys from San Francisco to Washi...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of billboard signs on brick wall welcoming arrival of Congressional Union automobile envoys in Washington, D.C.: "Welcome to envoys of women voter... More

Miss Kathleen Taylor, of New York. Speaker and organizer for the Wom...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Kathleen Taylor, wearing checked jacket, shirt, and plaid tie with tie clip.

[Women's Suffrage Headquarters]

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

[Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, Oc...

Summary: Photograph of women suffrage activists wearing suffrage sashes demonstrating with signs at city street corner. Signs read "President Wilson How Long Do You Advise Us to Wait?", "Vote Against Wilson He ... More

Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at ...

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elsie M. Hill, taken outdoors on picket line, wearing wide-brimmed hat with fur trim, coat, fur stole, and tricolor (purple, white, gold) s... More

Sailors attacking pickets, 1917, while policemen look casually on-- (T...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a large crowd of people on sidewalk and city street, including sailors, facing picketing suffragists who hold banners at gates of the White House.

Women Voters Day on the Picket line-- Feb. 14, 1917

Summary: Women pickets in suffrage procession down city sidewalk. Two hold American flags, three hold suffrage color banners, and one a banner with text (obscured). Lead woman (Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan) carrying ... More

Cell in D.C. jail. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of the interior of a prison cell, with sink, toilet, and cot.

Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, Lucy Burns, three-quarter length, seated, facing forward, holding a newspaper in her lap in front of a prison cell, likely at Occoquan Wo... More

Women suffrage parade, Wash., D. C.

Photograph shows four women marching ahead of large procession with the banner "We demand the passage of the Bristow-Mondell amendment" at the woman suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.

Van bringing suffrage prisoners to D.C. prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of people and cars outside large stone building.

Picket banners at Cameron House Hdqters-- Lafayette Sq.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of suffragists wearing coats, hats, and suffrage sashes and holding banners in front of Lafayette Square headquarters, NWP. Banners read: "Mr. President... More

Miss Mildred Glines, chairman Rhode Island, NWP [National Woman's Part...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mildred H. Glines of Rhode Island, wearing wide-brimmed hat, wide-collared, light blouse with dark ti... More

[Suffragists marching in rainy street during the Grand Picket, March 4...

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

[Arrest of White House pickets Catherine Flanagan of Hartford, Connect...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Catherine Flanagan (Left) and [Mrs. William Upton (Madeleine) Watson?] ( R) of the National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket with ba... More

Virginia Arnold [holding Kaiser Wilson banner].

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Virginia Arnold posing with banner: "Kaiser Wilson Have you forgotten your sympathy with the... More

Doris Stevens, Legislative Chairman, [National Woman's Party]

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Doris Stevens, seated, hands on knee, facing camera, wearing broad-brimmed hat. Back of print is stamped "May 25 1919". Identifications of Stevens as "Legislati... More

Miss [Elizabeth] Kalb - Suffragist Editorial Room

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elizabeth Green Kalb, facing right, with back to camera, seated at paper-covered desk in corner office, with typewriter and file cabinets near... More

Mrs. Anne Calvert Neely of Vicksburg, Mississippi

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, head and chest, Anne Calvert Neely, facing forwar... More

Clara Snell Wolfe, 1st Vice Chairman National Woman's Party and Chairm...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Clara Snell Wolfe, facing forward, wearing eyeglasses and v-neck dress with wide bands of embroidery . Verso: "1841 Roxbury... More

Sewing stars on suffrage flag - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

The Women's Pioneer Statue being moved into the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 19...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of the Women's Pioneer Statue being hauled up the Capitol steps.

Members of the first students' "Women for Congress" Conference launchi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of two women on yacht in a lake, with a third woman in a canoe and a fourth on the shore in the foreground. Photograph printed in Equal Rights, v. 9, 25 (Aug. 2,... More

Nina B. Lamkin, Director Woman's Division, Highland Park, Michigan, Re...

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

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist. Prominent member [of] NWP [National Wom...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Dorothy Thompson, wearing fur. Courtesy of Bacharach Studio, 321 S. Washington St. Alexandria, VA. 22314.

His daughter! And he thought she was "just a little girl" / W.E. Hill.

Illustration shows an elderly man standing at rear of a gathering around a young woman standing on a low platform, wearing a sash that states "Votes for Women", and holding a sign labeled "Freedom"; she is spea... More

[Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glas...

J243092 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman holding a flag labeled "Woman Suffrage" standing behind an angry hag labeled "Militant Lawlessness" with a Medusa-like face, wide-eyed and open mouth, rushing toward the viewer, carry... More

The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing President Grant sitting at the center of a large table, with several men clustered around, signing the 15th amendment granting that the right to vote cannot be denied on basis of race or color. Fr... More

Votes for Women. National Woman Party

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Enclosure: Fliers supporting women's suffrage

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Enclosure: Fliers supporting women's suffrage

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