constitutional amendments

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

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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

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

Miss Vivian Pierce of San Diego, Cal[ifornia]

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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

Equal Franchise postcard1928-08-03

TWL.2002.329

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

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

ERA 1977 - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

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

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

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15th Amendment bringing his crop to town. [Man on an oxcart loaded wit...

New Jersey stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

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

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 138, Folder 24c.

15th Amendment bringing his crop to town. [Man on an oxcart loaded wit...

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The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More

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

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 18, Folder 73.

Emmeline Pankhurst, c.1880s. - Public domain portrait print

7JCC/O/02/091.Photograph, modern reproduction, printed, paper, monochrome, studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, head and shoulders, three quarters profile; manuscript inscription on reverse 'Mrs E Pankhurst when young'

Annie Besant: an autobiography1888

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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

Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst in court, ...

7JCC/O/02/060.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst seated in the dock in a crowded courtroom; manuscript inscriptions on reverse '1908 Bow St. For ... More

Suffrage demonstration, c.1908-1912.

7JCC/O/02/012Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, an aerial view of a large suffrage procession doing round Marble Arch, surround by crowds; manuscript inscriptions on reverse 'Do not mark photo or score in ... More

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

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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.

Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, c.1910.

7JCC/O/02/101.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pankhurst standing looking out over the back of an open vehicle, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence beside her; printed inscription on reverse ''Copyright. ... More

Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenny and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, c.1912.

7JCC/O/02/105.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, reproduction of a suffrage postcard showing Emmeline Pankhurst and Annie Kenny seated in the back of a car, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence standing beside the ca... More

Since my Margaret become a suffragette

Emmeline Pankhurst speaking at a Women's Social & Political Union (WSP...

7JCC/O/02/004aPhotograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Mrs Pankhurst speaking at the London Pavilion, flanked by Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Christabel Pankhurst, with representatives of WSPU branches also on ... More

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

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

Mrs. Pattie Jacobs, President of Alabama Suffrage Association.

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

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

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

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

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

E[mmeline] Pankhurst - Victorian era public domain image

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

Fall in line record label, Victor records

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

Emmeline Pankhurst, c.1914. - Public domain portrait print

7JCC/O/02/085.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, head and shoulders, front face, wearing a jacket with large fabric lapels. The image has been trimmed.

[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.

Ceremonies - Ohio thru Wisconsin - Red Cross Parade, Harrisburg, PA. C...

Photographer: Harrisburg Chamber Commerce Ceremonies - Ohio thru Wisconsin Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 "...

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

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

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

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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...

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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

Women's Suffrage Day in Fountain Square

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Back from the land of the nut a monologue

[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

From the Independent gazetteer, &c. Mr. Printer. In order that people ...

Evans 20380.; On verso, Copies 2, 3, 4: {stamp} Gift Herbert Putnam Sept 22, 1938. {stamp} ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION SOL BLOOM, Dircetor General, Washington D.C. A... More

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

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

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.

Justice versus prejudice / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt, standing with right hand on the left shoulder of an African American man, standing to the left, and his left hand on a paper labeled "15th Amendment"; behind the... More

Suffragette Procession, 1911. - Public domain demonstration print

7JCC/O/01/055Photographic postcard, printed, paper, monochrome, suffragette process taken from above, Christabel Pankhurst in a white dress and academic robes walking ahead of a banner '690 IMPRISONMENTS TO WIN... More

Katherine Douglas Smith speaking to a crowd of men, c.1906-1914.

7JCC/O/02/020.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a woman speaking from a platform to a densely packed crowd of men; inscriptions on reverse 'The Suffragettes busy at [Portsmouth]. Miss Douglas Smith make .... More

Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, 1908.

7JCC/O/01/032Postcard, printed, monochrome photographic portrait of Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, seated at a desk, pen in right hand, front-profile, white border, black text, printed inscription front: 'VOTES FOR... More

Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, c.1908.

7JCC/O/01/036Postcard, printed, monochrome photographic studio portrait of Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, standing, side-profile, wearing embroidered dress and jacket, white border, black text, printed inscription ... More

Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst in court, ...

7JCC/O/02/061.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst in the dock at Bow Street; manuscript inscriptions on reverse 'No. 17. Mrs/Miss Pankhurst in the... More

Womens Social & Political Union (WSPU) Fife and Drum band marching, 19...

7JCC/O/02/021Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, drum and fife band marching with a banner 'PRINCES SKATING RINK KNIGHTSBRIDGE: OPEN EVERY DAY', led by Mary Leigh; on reverse: typed caption, manuscript insc... More

Polly's chance to get some nice crackers / K.

Illustration shows a well-dressed man labeled "Plutocracy", wearing a top hat, holding a parrot labeled "State Legislature" on his right hand, trying to get it to repeat a phrase after him, "We don't want an In... More

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

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst talking to an officer on board ship,...

7JCC/O/02/083.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in conversation with a ship's officer; printed inscription on reverse 'This photograph is the copyright of the Daily Mirro... 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