nineteenth amendment

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

Public domain image of an early automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Boer women, c.1901. Poster from London School of Economics collection

7MGF/E/1/100.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, group of four Boer women. Inserted at page 78.

Susan B. Anthony with seven other women

Susan Brownell Anthony, (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent a prominent American suffragist leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the Unite... More

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.

'Human Letters', 23 Feb 1909. - A group of people standing in front of...

7JCC/O/02/008.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, suffragettes Daisy Solomon and Elspeth McClellan with a post boy, police and an official outside no.10 Downing Street, attempting to get themselves delivere... More

Christabel Pankhurst, 1909. Poster from London School of Economics col...

7JCC/O/02/108b.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst holding a Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) flag and waving from the window of a house; printed inscription on reverse 'Illustra... More

Procession of released prisoners, 1909.

7JCC/O/02/071Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, procession of women in white each carrying a pole topped by an arrow head, among them Christabel Pankhurst in academic robes, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, Emme... More

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.

Making garlands for a Womens Social & Political Union (WSPU) rally, 19...

7JCC/O/02/014.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a group of women in a yard, one standing on a ladder, making garlands for the procession of 23 Jul 1910; manuscript inscription on reverse 'Next Saturday's ... More

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

Christabel Pankhurst in a suffragette procession, 1911.

7JCC/O/01/002Photographic postcard, printed, monochrome, suffragette procession taken from above, Christabel Pankhurst in a white dress and academic robes walking ahead of a banner '690 IMPRISONMENTS TO WIN FRE... 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

Charlotte Despard, Edith How Martyn and Emma Sproson, c.1914.

7JCC/O/02/067.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Charlotte Despard, Edith How Martyn and Emma Sproson walking arm in arm down a street, watched by a policeman; manuscript inscription on reverse 'Women's Fr... 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.

American Red Cross - Groups - Hennepin County Suffrage Red Cross Unit ...

Photographer: C.J. Hibbard American Red Cross - Groups Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GOV. SPROUL OF PENNSYLVANIA SIGNING SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

A group of people standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baggage for Prison Special - Jackson Place Hdqtrs on Lafayette Sq.

Mary Blathwayt, Annie Kenney and Margaret Hewitt, 1909.

7JCC/O/02/078.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, mounted on card, Mary Blathwayt and Margaret Hewitt in Colonel Blathwayt's car, Annie Kenney standing beside them; manuscript inscription on front 'L [Linle... More

[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.

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

Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

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

Emmeline Pankhurst as a young girl, 1870s.

7JCC/O/02/088.Photograph, modern reproduction, printed, paper, monochrome, studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst leaning against the back of a chair, three quarter length, right profile; printed below image 'Ab... More

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

Waiting for suffragettes outside Bow Street, c.1908-1912.

7JCC/O/02/054.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a large group of women being controlled by police waiting outside Bow Street Magistrates' Court for women to be released; printed inscription on reverse 'Co... More

Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst in court, c.1909.

7JCC/O/02/059.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, general view of a crowded courtroom with Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst seated in the dock at Bow Street Magistrates' Court; manuscript inscripti... More

WSPU waitresses at Women's Exhibition, 1909.

TWL/2002/387 Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Emmeline Pankhurst talking to a small boy, c.1913-1914.

7JCC/O/02/084.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pankhurst seated in a deck chair, talking to a small boy in a sailor suit; printed inscription on reverse 'This photograph is the copyright of the ... More

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..

[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

[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.

Christabel Pankhurst in New York, c.1914.

7JCC/O/02/106.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst seated on a chair, wearing hat and long white gloves; printed inscription on reverse 'Copyrighted by the International News Service, 23... More

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

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

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

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

Votes for Women at 21, 1927. - Public domain historical image

TWL/2009/02/212

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

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

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

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

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

Photograph of Josephine Butlerc. 1880

3AMS/G/01/03

A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are... More

Women voting at Pitt. - Public domain photograph

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

"Bryan's my man--Who's yours?" / Keller.

Postcard showing a portrait of a woman of status with a caption saying, "Bryan's my man-Who's yours?", suggesting her support for William Jennings Bryan during his third bid for president in 1908 in which he us... More

Dr. Caroline Spencer. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Caroline E. Spencer, facing slightly left with head turned toward camera, wearing eyeglasses, hat, and coat, over lace-collare... More

Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, c.1910.

7JCC/O/02/133.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, reproduction of a [painted] portrait of Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, head and shoulders, front profile

Women's Political Union delegation, Western New York, ca. 1910-1915. P...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three women and two men standing next to ox-driven wagon with banner, "Votes for Women." Another woman sits on a horse nearby.

Elizabeth Freeman. - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Frederick (Mary) Nolan. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mary A. Nolan, facing forward, with lace collar and necklace. Mrs. Mary A. Nolan of Jacksonville, Fla., was often described... More

[Mrs. W. Thompson Burch] - Public domain portrait photograph

Summary: Full-length, studio portrait of Mrs. W. Thompson Burch, standing in a long formal dress facing right with head turned toward camera. Title taken from duplicate image in the same folder. Name and addres... More

Amalia E. Mallen de Ostalaza, Pres. of Nat[ional] Suffrage Party of Cu...

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

[Women, including those representing the states of Wisconsin and Orego...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of contingents of suffragists marching with banners on street. Banners read: "Delegations From Womans Clubs", "Wisconsin," and "Oregon."

Mrs. George A. Fowler, Sr., chairman Colorado Branch, [National Woman’...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, standing, Bertha W. Fowler of Colorado, facing left with head slightly turned toward camera, we... More

[New Jersey delegates in front of Congressional Union headquarters.]

Summary: Photograph of large group of women standing on front steps and street in front of building, National American Woman Suffrage Association office, lower level, Wilcox, Hane & Co. Real Estate office and C... More