woman suffrage movement

Franchise. And not this man? / Th. Nast.

Columbia speaking, with hand on shoulder of Civil War soldier, who lost a leg in the war. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Aug. 5, p. 489.

The modern Cornelia, a veritable rum 'un

Woman labeled "universal suffrage" seated on ballot box, African American man labeled "Negro suffrage", and woman labeled "female suffrage" holding club labeled "sorosis." Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated ... More

Lucretia Mott. - Public domain portrait print

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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

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Election Day! - Public domain portrait drawing

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"The Heavy Cross" Sculpture by Constantin Isenberg

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Suffrage Parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows women marching with banner "National Woman Suffrage" at the Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913. In background: northeast corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th St. (Source: Flick... More

Suffrage Parade, Alberta Hill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photo shows Alberta Hill on horseback at the Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913. Hill was secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union. (Source: Flickr Com... 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

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

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

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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. ROSE WINSLOW AND MAGGIE HINCHEY

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FLOYD, PAULINE. WOMAN SUFFRAGE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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[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

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).

WOMAN SUFFRAGE BANNERS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Revised / Chamberlain. - Public domain portrait drawing

Cartoon showing a woman revising statement on a wall; she changes "Woman's sphere is the home" to "Woman's sphere is wherever she makes good--"; she is holding a list of places, such as "The home" "The Law" "In... 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.

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.

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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GOV. SPROUL OF PENNSYLVANIA SIGNING SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

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[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

[Two suffragettes showing banner to young girl]

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Mrs. J.L. Laidlaw - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows New York suffrage leader Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1873-1949), wife of James Lees Laidlaw. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

[Alice Paul, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, sewi...

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. SUFFRAGE VOTING FOR DISTRICT

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[Alice Paul, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in academic rob...

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Arrival in Washington in March 1913 of Rosalie Jones' band of pilgrims...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of procession in street surrounded by large crowds of people.

Suffrage Pageant - flower girls L.I., N.Y.

Photo shows participants in suffrage pageant and parade which went from Mineola to Hempstead, Long Island, New York, May 24, 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, May 24, 1913)

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. POSTERS FOR PARADE

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SELLING 'THE SUFFRAGIST'

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL

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Suffrage parade, NYC, Oct. 23, 1915

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Women's suffrage in the United States - Activities, 1915-1917. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).... More

Suffrage Parade, N.Y., 10/15 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE SIGN: WELCOME TO ENVOYS OF WOMEN VOTERS

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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

F[lorence] B[ayard] Hilles.. National Woman Party

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE GROUP OF SUFFRAGISTS

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. PICKETS AT WHITE HOUSE

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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.

Miss Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pa. A picket who served time in pr...

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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE ARRESTS - Public domain portrait photograph

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES WITH BANNERS

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Olive Mills Belches, State Chairman of Mass[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

Washington Votes; first time since 1874. Washington, D.C., April 30. I...

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Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. -- Scene at the polls in Cheyenne...

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Two's company three's a crowd! / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Votes for Women" holding a paper labeled "The Ballot", parting a curtain on a darkened room where two men labeled "Honest Graft" and "Political Boss" are sitting, huddled ove... More

Alice Paul - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Nellie van Slingerland holding banner of Joan of Arc Suffrage Lea...

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Susan B. Anthony, portrait with Carrie Chapman Catt quotation on Antho...

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Woman Suffrage Gathering at Newport Marble House

Suffragists attend lecture on grounds of Marble House, Newport home of Mrs. Alva Belmont.

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.

McLENNAN, MRS. R.M. SUFRAGETTE - Public domain portrait photograph

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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

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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. PARADE, MAY, 1914

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. MRS. CHRISTIAN HEMMICK

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... 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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. METTING PAT - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. POSTERS FOR PARADE

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

The genii of intolerance A dangerous ally for the cause of women suffr...

Cartoon showing a genii "Prohibition" rising from a bottle labeled "Injustice Intolera[nce] Hypocr[isy]" tearing at a woman's banner reading "Votes for Women" as the woman flees from his clutches.

Emily Pierson Handing out Leaflets in New York State Suffrage Campaign...

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Pre-election parade for suffrage in NYC, Oct. 23, 1915, in which 20,00...

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[Suffrage envoy Sara Bard Field (left) and her driver, Maria Kindberg ...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women in coats and hats standing in front of automobile with banner reading, "We demand an Amendment to the United States Constitution En... More

Inez Milholland [Boissevain], center, as she begins her last speaking ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Inez Milholland [Boissevain] standing between two unidentified women. Woman on the right holds suffrage flag.

Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. When suffragists returned from White Hou...

Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Harriot Stanton Blatch with arms outstretched, palms facing up, wearing a hat and belted dress or suit, with a hand bag hanging from the waist. Title and date... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. IN JAIL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE PICKETS - Public domain portrait photograph

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Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917] /

Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was rejected by the vo... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. BANNERS - Public domain portrait photograph

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. MRS. SWING, PICKETING WHITE HOUSE

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE PICKETS AT WHITE HOUSE

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. BONFIRE ON SIDEWALK BEFORE WHITE HOUSE

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Deputation Leaving Headquarters to Take Petition to Senator Jones of N...

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Annie Fraher, Bertha Moller, Berthe Arnold, and Anita Pollitzer standing outside the Nationa... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE (MISC. INDIVIDUAL SUFFRAGETTES)

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[National Woman's Party members picketing 1917 Republican Party Conven...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Three suffragists in white, wearing suffrage sashes, hold banners outside building, on sidewalk. Texts of banners regarding Republican party partially obscured.

When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug 18, 1920, Alice Paul, Nati...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul standing over ratification banner hanging from the balcony of the National Woman's Party headquarters, with members watching outside the building b... More

Mrs. Dudley, Field Malone, and Miss Alice Paul, 7/23/25

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Hazel MacKaye, noted pageant director, who is in charge of the big out...

Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Hazel MacKaye, turned to the left, facing camera, standing outdoors in front of a lake. Title and information transcribed from item. Deleted from original caption is pas... More

Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence of England, Mme. Hoda Charaoni, of Egypt, Mlle. ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of (left to right) Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Hoda Charasoui, Ceza Nabaraoui, and Elizabeth Culbertson, standing on front steps outside of building. Photograph p... 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

Two's company three's a crowd! / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Votes for Women" holding a paper labeled "The Ballot", parting a curtain on a darkened room where two men labeled "Honest Graft" and "Political Boss" are sitting, huddled ove... More

[Three suffragists casting votes in New York City(?)]

Caption: "Calm about it. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage." National Photo Co... More

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

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Alice Stone Blackwell - Public domain portrait photograph

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Votes for Women, Hyde Park Demonstration, London, June 21, 1908, Souve...

Hyde Park Suffrage Demonstration Program includes map showing route of 7 processions and placement of 20 speaker's platforms, encircled by portraits of 20 women speakers and border of purple violets.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE - Public domain portrait photograph

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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

Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Phila[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".

Mrs. E. Pankhurst - Public domain portrait

English suffragist and political activist Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), leader of the British women's suffrage movement. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Marchers in Suffrage parade, 5/4/12 - Miss Brannan & Mrs. John Rogers,...

Half-length. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Women's suffrage in the United States - Activities, 1905-1912. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library ... 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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. ADVERTISING PARADE

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