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Small pamphlet: single sheet 11 x 5-3/4", folded in thirds to 3-3/4 x 5-3/4", printed black on white stock (both sides). Slight age-toning, else fine. This little pamphlet appeals for contributions to memorials established by the NAWSA in honor of Anna Howard Shaw. It prints resolutions passed "at the Victory Convention [following Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment] held at Chicago Feb. 12 to 18, 1920". The "Appeal" notes that Dr. Shaw had dedicated her life to woman suffrage and also to securing "higher education and the opening of new professions for women". "To those of us who knew and loved her best, stone or bronze would fail to symbolize her spirit. Her far reaching vision is better expressed in a living, growing memorial which will open other new fields for women in the future, as she opened them in the past". The NAWSA plans to raise $500,000 to establish a Foundation in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College and a Foundation in Preventive Medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The pamphlet also lists the state chairmen, the Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee. Anna Howard Shaw who Susan B. Anthony herself recruited to the woman suffrage cause had served as president of the NAWSA for twelve years. Though her presidency had been troubled, her dedication to woman suffrage had been unswerving through three decades. She died in 1919. Like Anthony and Stanton, she did not live to see the cause for which she had worked for so many years became reality. As the "Appeal" concludes: "Give as your heart dictates. Anna Howard Shaw gave her best". A nice piece of suffrage ephemera on one of its key figures.

Pamphlet: "Anna Howard Shaw Memorial of the National American Woman Suffrage Association"
[Shaw, Anna Howard].
[NP]: , [ND, but 1920].
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First edition. 8vo (7-1/2 x 5-1/8"), 119pp; (+ endmatter); olive brown wove cloth stamped in dark brown at the front cover. Front free endpaper age-toned. Light touches of wear. Very good. With a foreword by the author dated January 1919. The contents: Our Selves and Our Government; Town Government; County Government; Borough Government; City Government; State Government; National Government; Political Parties; Elections; The Education System; Courts; Taxation; and, New Problems. The endmatter provides essential information in three tables: Chief Legislative Body; Chief Executive; and, Chief Judicial. As 1919 opened, suffragists had confidence Congress, at very long last, would pass the 19th Amendment. While passage of the amendment and ratification remained the NAWSAs key priority, the organization knew it needed to educate women on governance. Once women had the vote, they would need to use it. Mary Austin, for instance, a dedicated suffragist, published THE YOUNG WOMAN CITIZEN (1918). Similarly, THE ACTUAL GOVERNMENT OF CONNECTICUT offers a succinct account of the various levels of government and its workings. In her foreword, Schoonmaker notes that all the good will to make changes or correct wrongs avails little without the knowledge of how to prosecute those changes: "Citizenship can no longer be thought of as an honor or privilege which can be bestowed or withheld at will, accepted or rejected as we ourselves see fit to accept or reject it".

THE ACTUAL GOVERNMENT OF CONNECTICUT
[Suffrage] Schoonmaker, Nancy M[usselman].
New York City: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1919.
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First edition. 8vo, 81pp; smooth dark brown cloth with gilt stamping front and spine; stamping at rear cover same as front cover, but in blind. T.e.g. Gilt faded at spine; lower foretip exposed; slight wear to head and foot of spine. Very good. A tract in support of woman's suffrage. As Crothers notes "equal suffrage is not the first step in an impending revolution, but only a necessary adjustment to the results of a revolution that has already happened". Krichmar 1565.

MEDITATIONS ON VOTES FOR WOMEN, together with animadversions on the closely related subject of votes for men
[Suffrage] Crothers, Samuel McChord.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press, 1914.
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Leaflet: LAWS OF VIRGINIA With Regard to Women Contrasted with Laws Where Women Vote
[Suffrage],
[Richmond, Virginia: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, ca. 1918-1920].
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Leaflet: "LAWS OF VIRGINIA With Regard to Women Contrasted with Laws Where Women Vote"
[Suffrage, Virginia],
[Richmond, Virginia: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, ca. 1918-1920].
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Pamphlet: single sheet, 6 x 6-1/2" folded to 6 x 3-1/4", 4pp; printed self-wrappers. Fine. The leaflet offers a succinct comparison between women and men regarding "Citizenship", "Military Duty", "Employment", "Jury Duty", "Divorce", "Property", "Support", "Settlement Entitling to Support in Case of Need", "Guardianship of Minor Children", and "Property at Death". A widow, for instance, may claim a $500.00 exemption from taxes if her whole taxable estate is less than $1,000. "Man has no corresponding exemptions". And as for the working women, "Hours of labor and conditions concerning health and safety exceptionally well looked after". Antisuffragists suggested repeatedly that the laws which Progressives had fought for to curb abusive work places proved that women did not need the vote and, in fact, were coddled in comparison to their male counterparts. It was an irony which rankled, of course. Kinnard does not note the leaflet in her ANTIFEMINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT nor does OCLC locate a copy.

Leaflet: "Some Rights and Exemptions Given to Women by Massachusetts Law"
[Anti-suffrage],
Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1911.
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Broadside: NOTICE OF SUBMISSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AT THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 6, 1917
[Suffrage-NY 1917],
[NP]: , [1917].
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Pamphlet: THE MODERN CITY AND THE MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE FOR WOMEN
Addams, Jane.
{New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1910].
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Comic Strip: DOLLY DIMPLE MEETS THE BLACK SHEEP
[Suffrage] Beekman, Dan T..
Portland, Oregon: OREGON JOURNAL, Saturday evening, November 22, 1913.
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"The Suffrage Danger" in THE LIVING AGE Seventh Series Volume LVI, No. 3553 August 10, 1912
[Anti Suffrage] Tadema, Laurence Alma.
Boston: The Living Age Company, 1912.
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Program: 9 x 6", unpaginated; white wrappers (stapled) lettered in black and with a bold red/white/blue stripe running diagonally from upper left to lower right. Rumpled. About very good. The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women was created in 1882, the first formal anti-suffrage organization in the United States. It remained active, especially during the final decade of the suffrage movement, until passage and ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The playbill prints a List of Patronesses which reflects the many distinguished Massachusetts families which lined up against woman suffrage; among those named: Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, 2nd; Mrs. George R. Agassiz; Mrs. Harcourt Amory; Mrs. Edward H. Bradford; Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot; Mrs. William C. Endicott, Jr.; Miss Marion H. Fenno; Mrs. Francis L. Higginson; Mrs. Clement S. Houghton; Mrs. Francis C. Lowell; and, Mrs. Endicott P. Saltonstall. The program also lists those serving as Candy Girls, Flower Girls, Tea Girls and Ushers as well as those on the Candy, Flower, Finance, Programme, Music, Tea, and Ticket-Distribution Committees. The program features a scene adapted from Victor Hugos LES MISERABLES entitled The Bishops Candlesticks and a two-scene comedy sketch Uncle Williams Lobster (A Comedy of the Maine Coast) with musical interludes. The program, of course, carries a variety of advertisements by Boston merchants and an announcement of the Associations recent publication of ANTI-SUFFRAGE ESSAYS. The program documents women who supported the Association and its activities, and suggests the dignified, elegant tone they sought to convey in their public events. ( In contrast, of course, to the vulgarity of suffragists speaking on street corners, parading with banners and flags, and otherwise making public spectacles of themselves.) What is striking is the absence of a sketch or short play which lays out anti-suffrage themes. The program aims at sheer entertainment, devoid of political rhetoric.

Program: "Short Plays and Music..Wilbur Theatre..Monday, May 8, 1916 Under the Auspices of Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women"
[Anti-Suffrage],
[Boston, Massachusetts]: , [1916].
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Pamphlet: A PLAIN TALK TO THE WORKINGMEN ON A SQUARE DEAL
[Suffrage], Michigan Equal Suffrage Association.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, [N.D. but ca. 1912-1917].
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Pamphlet: EQUAL SUFFRAGE. Speech of Hon. John F. Shafroth of Colorado in the Senate of the United States Tuesday, April 25, 1916 As Amended by Permission of the Senate January 24, 1917
[Suffrage] Shafroth, John F.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917.
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Postcard: "The Amendment Float - Suffragette's Parade - March 3rd 1913 - Washington - D.C."
[Suffrage],
(Baltimore, Md.: I & M. Ottenheimer, [1913]).
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Handbill: 8-3/4 x 5-3/4", printed black on tan stock. Very good. Michigan held a referendum on woman suffrage in 1913 which went down to defeat amid considerable controversy over the handling of vote counts. The initial count showed a majority of voters approved woman suffrage; subsequent reporting revised the voting tallies with the 'nays' prevailing. Suffragists felt robbed. Five years later, however, Michigan voters approved an amendment to the state constitution giving their women the franchise. The flyer could date to either 1913 or 1918. Frances Willard as President of the W.C.T.U. put the resources and considerable grassroots organization of the Union behind the woman suffrage movement. Yet suffragist literature printed by the W.C.T.U. is relatively uncommon. This handbill offers a salient and standard suffrage argument  that women are taxed as citizens and should have the privileges of citizenship: "An actual investigation of the official records in fifty-six counties of Michigan revealed the fact...that 86,665 women pay taxes in those counties amounting to $3,155,266.42 on $150,000,000 worth of property....Do you really believe that 'taxation without representation is tyranny?' ".

Handbill: "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny"
[Suffrage, Michigan],
St. Louis, Mich.: Michigan W.C.T.U. Press Bureau, [c. 1913-1918].
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Only printing. Pamphlet: 9-1/8 x 5-3/4", 16pp; printed buff self-wrappers (stapled). Near fine. Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison and served as an associate justice from 1891 to 1906. In his address, Brown refutes the idea that "either men or women have a natural right to vote": "They may be said to have a natural right to protection in their persons, their property and their opinions, but they have no natural right to govern or to participate in the government of others." [A remarkable position for a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.] Furthermore, state laws often favor women over men, supporting he suggests, womanly distaste for "manual labor". If women should be and are equal under the law they still differ from men, which Brown sets out in five brief sentences. Among women's deficits , for instance, is "The dispassionate view of important questions, which we call the judicial temperament". Their strengths, which he also enumerates, lie in the domestic sphere. And, like many antisuffragists, he envisions danger in granting the vote "to large classes who have not heretofore enjoyed it. True, this is a government of the people, but not necessarily of all persons constituting the people." Brown concludes his address by declaring that "in winning public favor they will leave behind them something of their attachment to the virtues of private life; that contact with coarse men at the polls will familiarize them with the vulgarities of politics; in short, that in becoming more like men they will become less like women". Kinnard, ANTIFEMINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT, 620. OCLC notes numerous institutions with microform copies; but, just five institutions hold the pamphlet itself: Connecticut Historical Society, Mount Holyoke College, NYPL, Tulane University and University of Ottawa.

Pamphlet: "WOMAN SUFFRAGE: A Paper Read by Ex-Justice Brown before the Ladies' Congressional Club of Washington, D.C., April, 1910"
[Anti-suffrage] Brown, Henry Billings.
Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, [1910].
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Printed invitation: 3-1/2 x 5-3/8", printed on pale gray wove paper. Crease to lower left margin with a 1/2" tear; corners a little rubbed. About very good. The invitation reads: "New York State Woman Suffrage / Association / Cordially Invites You and Your Friends to a / Susan B. Anthony / Reception and Fair / To be Held in the / Belvedere of the Hotel Astor / Tuesday February Fourteenth / From Noon Till Midnight". Susan B. Anthony succeeded Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1890 and by the time she stepped down in 1900, she had become even more widely revered within and without the woman suffrage movement. Suffrage groups often held suffrage teas or fairs on the birthdays of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and later Susan B. Anthony (and even later, Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw). It honored women's rights leaders and rallied supporters. Affairs celebrating Miss Anthony's birthday usually coincided with the NWSA's annual national convention, generally held in February. In 1899, however, NWSA went to Grand Rapids, Michigan in late spring for its convention. Miss Anthony's birth date was February 15 and it was a departure from custom for the reception and fair to be scheduled for the day prior. Her birthday celebrations continued even after she left office, the final being in Baltimore at the 1906 NAWSA annual convention. Her last words on that occasion: "Failure is Impossible". An attractive piece of woman suffrage ephemera documenting the Association's celebration of founder and mover Susan B. Anthony.

Invitation: SUSAN B. ANTHONY RECEPTION AND FAIR
[Suffrage Ephemera], New York State Woman Suffrage Association.
[New York?]: , [ca. 1899?].
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Handbill: A MOTHER'S SPHERE
[Suffrage] Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell.
New York City: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., January, 1915.
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Leaflet: Single sheet folded to 5-1/2 x 8-1/4", printed on off-white stock. A touch of uneven browning along left edge. Very good. In response to an anti suffrage editorial on "the Federal amendment for equal suffrage" in an important Virginia newspaper, Vernon rebuts the editorial's main points, i.e., that woman suffrage threatens both states' rights and white domination. "If woman alone had the ballot, would men consider States' rights a sufficient reason for their own continued disfranchisement?".

Leaflet: THE WOMEN ARE TIRED OF WAITING
[Suffrage] Vernon, Grace.
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. 1915-1920].
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Pamphlet: WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR SUFFRAGE?
[Suffrage],
[Kenosha, WI]: Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, [ca. 1914].
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