Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

The Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection is a privately owned collection amassed over twenty years. It is comprised of more than 1,200 books, objects, correspondence, periodicals, lobbying materials, postcards, and more. The items pictured in this gallery have been loaned to the National Park Service for display in the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

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Votes For Women; Women's Social and Political Union, 4, Clement's Inn.
A Deputation of Women will arrive in Parliament Square at 8 o'clock. Tuesday, November 22. (handwritten 1910)
To Lovers of Fair Play! Women Versus the Government! Will you come and Umpire?
Read "Votes for Women" Weekly, One Penny, from all Newsagents and Bookstalls.

Women's Social and Political U...

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Transcript: I AM OPPOSED TO WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
Name: Mrs. N.G. Abbot (in cursive writing)
Street: 51 Merrimack St, Penacook (in cursive writing)
Seal at center bottom reads: Union Label 3

Anti-suffrage Pledge Card : I ...

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Transcript: Entrance Fee 1/- (Please write very distinctly) MEMBERSHIP PLEDGE.
I endorse the objects and methods of the Women's Social & Political Union, and I hereby undertake not to support the candidate of any political party at Parliamentary Elections until Women have obtained the Parliamentary vote. I desire to be enrolled as a member.
Signature: (State whether Mrs. or Miss)
Full Address: (Add name of town)
This half to be detached and posted, with the entrance fee of 1s., to the Hon Secretary , W.S.P.U., 4 Clement's Inn, Strand, W.C.

Membership pledge card : Women...

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Transcript: Why the Working Woman Needs the Vote by Mrs. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
Every year more and more women are going into industry. Why is this?
1. COST OF LIVING is rising, and in many families the woman's wages are needed to eke out the family income.
2. THE STANDARD OF LIVING is rising, and workingmen's families demand better conditions, and MUST have a larger income to meet them.
3. Women living in cities can no longer help sustain the family by farm work, dairy work, or by spinning and weaving; therefore their only ways of helping to provide for the family are
EITHER to take work home, which in most cases produces the evil results of sweat shop work with poor conditions of work and poorer pay;
OR to go out to work in factory or shop.
Now IS the woman's work a help to the family in the long run?
NOT SO LONG AS WOMEN ARE CHEAP LABOR
Every union man knows how dangerous and harmful is the competition of child labor; it is dangerous BECAUSE IT IS CHEAP, and cuts down the man's wages.

Circular : Why the working wom...

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Reproduction of a flyer titled Teachers Need the Vote! Reasons why teachers should work for woman suffrage. Arranged by the Teachers' Section, New York State Woman Suffrage Party. Lists 7 reasons teachers need the vote.
Join the Teachers' Section of Your Local Suffrage League! Votes for Women! National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue, New York City

Broadside : Teachers need the ...

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Grey pamphlet cover with embossed writing: "Anti-Suffrage Campaign Manual" as title and "Mrs. Albert T. Leatherbee"

Pamphlet : Anti-suffrage campa...

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See image description for more info. Transcript: Women vote in all the white states. Why not in this state? Nearly 4,000,000 women vote in the Equal Suffrage States. Total Number of Electoral Votes in Equal Suffrage States-91. VOTE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Give this to a friend and ask him to vote for it. Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. Headquarters: 201-5 Arcade Building, Harrisburg

Flier : Votes for Women a Succ...

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Transcript: Name:
Address:
City:
I WILL VOTE FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN NOVEMBER 1915
Send to 595 Boylston St., Room 12
With union seal 95

Pledge card : I will vote for ...

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Transcript: Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment: Why? Six Reasons
1. Keeping pace with other countries demands it.
2. Equal Rights demands it.
3. Relief from unjust State Constitutional obstructions demands it.
4. Protection from inadequate Election Laws demands it.
5. Equal status of men and women voters demands it.
6. The national significance of the question demands national action.
With supporting text under each item

Flier : Woman suffrage by fede...

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Transcript: Women Voters: Wilson Opposes Suffrage in Congress where he has great power. He Votes for it in New Jersey where he knows it will fail. Do Not Send to the White House a Man Who is Against National Suffrage. NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY.

Broadside : Women voters Wilso...

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Cover of a pamphlet. Title: Twenty Questions about the Federal Amendment proposed by the National Woman's Party. Bottom of page: Compiled by Florence Kelley, National Consumers' League, January 1922

Pamphlet : Twenty Questions ab...

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Postcard titled "Queen of the Poll" with illustration of a woman wearing a long velvet green dress with high-necked grey blouse, a large matching hat with black ribbon and yellow flowers, and yellow long gloves holding a green handbag and smoking a cigarette. Pinned to her dress above her chest on her left is a piece of paper which reads in red "District Leaderess" On her right is a red fire hydrant. On her right is a telephone pole with six signs attached. The signs text promote men and women candidates for different political offices including "Governess" and "Boodle-Holder of the Committee for the Emancipation of the Weaker Sex from the Other Sex."

Postcard : Queen of the Poll. ...

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A postcard titled "Suffragists Attacking a Policemen" with illustration of a surprised police officer in a headlock with his left arm held by an angry-looking woman wearing a yellow blouse and grey skirt. His hat flies off to the right. Another woman wearing a black and white shirt and red skirt holds a black umbrella over her head as if she is preparing to strike the man. Both women wear hats and their noses are prominent and shaded red.

Postcard : Suffragists attacki...

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Postcard titled "The Suffragette for Senatoress" showing an illustration of a woman standing in front of wallpaper with yellow diamond pattern. She is drawn in an exaggerated position wearing a long patterned dress with ruffled underskirt and large bows in her hair. She points to a sign next to her which reads: To Whom it may concern:
This is to notify you that I am running for Senatoress on the Suffragette ticket.
I believe in a reduction of the tariff on Paris gowns. I believe there should be a cut in sheath gowns. I believe in a reduction of the duties on women.
Correspondence solicited from the trusts. I'm just 16. Yours for votes.

Postcard : The suffragette. Fo...

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Postcard with an illustration of a grey cat with green eyes and white whiskers sitting on a table with its paw on a piece of paper that reads "We Demand the Vote." The cat wears a woman's hat with large feathers and a purple, white and green shawl with fringe. The shawl has a white pin at the cat's chest with black lettering "Votes for Women."

Postcard : An advocate for wom...

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Postcard : Votes for Women; Sh...

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Postcard with title "Militant Suffragettes." Illustration shows three children walking outside near a post and rail fence. Two girls wearing hats and sashes hold signs that read "More Kandy More Jam" and "No More School for Us!" A rope tied to the second girl's arm is also tied around the neck of a boy who walks behind her with eyes downcast. He wears a posterboard in front of him that reads "Hubbies to be Home by 8 P.M." Between the second girl and the boy, a spotted dog holds the arm of a doll in its mouth

Postcard : Militant suffragett...

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Small round purple and gold pinback button with image of a herald blowing a trumpet. Along the rim are the words "National Woman Suffrage/Congressional Union." The yellow background is faded and cracked with age

Pinback button : National Woma...

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Small white porcelain figure in the shape of a bell with the wide portion resembling the skirt of a woman and the handle as the woman's head in a bonnet. The figure's face is a caricature of an unattractive older woman with a wide smirk. On the brim of the bonnet are the words "Votes for Women" with the V and W in red and the rest of the text in black. Under the face is green pain resembling a bow. On the skirt is a yellow crest with a red-clad figure surrounded by stems and leaves of a plant with a red flower. Under the crest is a ribbon that reads "Ventnor"

Porcelain hand bell with two s...

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White ceramic bell in the shape of a woman with the wide bell portion suggesting her skirt. The top shows the face of a woman wearing a bonnet with "Votes for Women" in the brim. The V and W are in red, the rest of the text is black. The face is the caricature of an unattractive older woman with dark black eyebrows and a red mount in a thin smirk smile. Green paint suggests a bow under the chin. On the wide portion is a blue and orange crest with a yellow ribbon underneath that reads "Ayton."

Porcelain hand bell with two s...

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