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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. Nov., 1895].
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THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, Editors.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].
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Suffrage parade sash: 36-3/4" each side to shoulder hem, total length—73-1/2", x 5" wide, dark blue cotton cloth, machine stitched at edges, with white glazed cotton backing; United States flag and flagpole piece-stitched above the black stenciled legend, "VOTES / for /WOMEN". Pinpricks where the sash has been pinned for wearing. Fine. Though it is not possible to date the sash, it likely was made during the final decade of the suffrage movement when outdoor rallies, automobile cavalcades, and suffrage parades began to occur with ever-increasing frequency. Usually made by suffragists themselves rather than manufactured and distributed or sold by NAWSA's headquarters, sashes appeared with an array of individual or local touches. Some sashes were cut from gold cloth (the official color of the NAWSA), without the edges being finished, and then imprinted with "VOTES FOR WOMEN". Other sashes incorporated the colors of the suffrage organization, such as the white/purple/green of Harriot Stanton Blatch's Women's Political Union. This sash, with its use of the American flag, emphasizes the patriotism of the bearer and the suffragists' insistence that women be accorded equal citizenship. A handsome example in excellent condition.
Parade Sash: "VOTES FOR WOMEN"
[Suffrage],
[NP]: , [ND].
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED
Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED
Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
Rochester, N.Y.: To Abraham Wakeman, March 25, 1904.
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Miss Anthony’s crusading motto on behalf of women’s rights, framed with a handsome image of this redoubtable reformer. Frame: 18-1/2 x 13"; photograph: 9-1/2 x 7-1/2"; autograph sentiment: 2-3/8 x 5", dark brown wood frame with silver beading along interior edge; pale gray and black double-matting set off the photograph and the autograph sentiment below. The portrait is a fresh printing of a photograph of Miss Anthony, seated in profile and wearing a black silk dress adorned with a froth of lace at the neck and wrists. The sentiment, inscribed in ink, reads: "Equal Rights for All — [underscored] / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison Street / July 20, 1900 Rochester - N.Y.". Some staining along the left edge and a touch of rumpling. About very good in an exemplary setting. At the age of eighty, Miss Anthony resigned from as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN records: "As Miss Anthony grew older, the vilification of earlier years gave way to a popular respect that at times approached adulation. Newspapers now spoke of her wit, her friendliness, and the benign, grandmotherly qualities suggested by the aged face and white hair...The symbol of the woman's movement, she was the center of interest wherever she appeared, the one woman everyone wanted to see". Though no longer the head of NAWSA, she very much remained the spirit and soul of the movement until her death in 1906. Her constant refrain as she agitated for women's rights was "political equality", a refrain which she echoes here in this sentiment. NAW, Volume I, p. 56.
AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED, Framed with Photograph
Anthony, Susan.
[Rochester, N.Y.: , July 20, 1900].
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Susan B. Anthony Sterling Silver Souvenir Citrus Spoon
[Suffrage Ephemera] [Anthony, Susan].
[Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts: Shepard Manufacturing Company, ca. 1893].
Price: $2,500.00
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Crepe Paper Handkerchief: 14-2/4" square, text printed in black with a pink and green flowering vine framing the souvenir. The text has been printed slightly out of alignment with the paper square. The handkerchief has been folded with some resulting dustiness along fold areas. Backed with japanese tissue. Near fine. The handkerchief records that Lady Henry Somerset, Lady Frances Balfour, Mrs. Fawcett, Mrs. Anna [Howard] Shaw and Mrs. [Charlotte] Despard will speak. It declares: "Some months ago, on a dismal February day, thousands of women who keenly desire the extension of the Parliamentary franchise to their own sex tramped through the mud from Hyde Park Corner to Exeter Hall in such a procession as had never before been seen in England or anywhere else. Our object was to let the man in the street and the club windows see that women of all classes were demanding this reform, and were in deadly earnest in doing so. [Paragraph] The great majority of us were then, and still are, desirous that our demand for justice should be granted, because it is just..." The Mud Walks of February, 1907 and February, 1908 were the first massive woman suffrage parades. Women still hesitated, however great their commitment to woman suffrage, to walk the streets on behalf of their cause. As one authority notes: "The vast majority of women still felt that there was something very dreadful in walking in procession through the streets; to do it was to be something of a martyr, and many of the demonstrators felt that they were risking their employments and endangering their reputations, besides facing a dreadful ordeal of ridicule and public shame". The National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies, under the leadership of Millicent Fawcett, decided to mount a suffrage demonstration that both would persuade adherents and opponents that such parades could be effective and impressive. The NUWSS brought in suffrage societies such as the Woman's Freedom League, under the leadership of Charlotte Despard, the Artists' Suffrage League, and numerous local suffrage groups throughout England. An array of important suffrage leaders agreed to speak at Albert Hall at the mass meeting which would culminate the day's events. The Artists' Suffrage League worked richly embroidered banners for the various groups marching in the parade. The march, in fact, became a template for future suffrage parades, notably the watershed Washington, DC march of 1913 organized by Alice Paul under the aegis of the NAWSA. Mrs. S. Burgess printed a similar souvenir, according to OCLC, for a demonstration held by the more militant WSPU the succeeding Saturday. We could find no holding for the June 13 Souvenir. Rare. Crawford, THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. Tickner, THE SPECTACLE OF WOMEN, pp. 80-91.
Crepe Paper Handkerchief: SOUVENIR OF THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MARCH AND MASS MEETING
[Suffrage Ephemera],
London: Mrs. S. Burgess, [1908].
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Suffrage rosette: black silk rosette (approx. 1-3/4" in diameter) to which is attached three silk ribbon tails, each 5-3/4" long, the tails are red, blue and white with "VOTES", "FOR", "WOMEN" stenciled in black letters. Three tiny black dots on the red ribbon near the letters suggest that the rosette was hand-made rather than manufactured, as does the sewing of the rosette. Touch of fraying to rosette and tips of tails. Near fine. A lovely example of a handmade suffrage rosette. As one would surmise, these survive in far fewer numbers than celluloid buttons. Such rosettes likely were worn for public rallies, parades, automobile caravans when suffragists would want their sentiments readily discerned.
Suffrage Rosette with Ribbon Tails Imprinted "Votes For Women"
[Suffrage Ephemera],
[NP]: , [ND].
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Button and ribbon: celluloid button, 11/16" in diameter, white background within a red surround and the legend "I / AM" in red lettering; simple pin catch at reverse; manufacturer's printed paper backing present. With off-white silk ribbon: 2-9/16 x 5-3/8" plus fringe; printed in blue with a vignette of a pair of birds at the top of the ribbon with "FOR THE" beneath and "PROPOSED AMENDMENT" running perpendicularly the length of the ribbon. White ground of button a little dimmed. The ribbon is slightly age-toned with one mild brown spot. Very good. Like much suffrage ephemera, the date and origin of this button and ribbon are undocumented. However, the bluebird suggests it may have come from the 1915 Massachusetts campaign for passage of an amendment which would allow women to vote. The very active Massachusetts affiliate of the NAWSA produced, for instance, a striking window sign of a large bluebird with "Votes for Women".
Button & Ribbon, "I AM FOR THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT"
[Suffrage Ephemera],
Rochester, NY: Bastion Bros., [ND, but ca. 1915].
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First edition. Copy of suffrage activist May Brayton Briggs with her signature at the front free endpaper. 8vo, 100pp; (including Appendices); navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pale blue dust jacket printed in black. The jacket displays minor fading and some wear around the spine ends. The book is fine. The presence of the original dust jacket is unusual. Catt has compiled documents related to "why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question" of woman suffrage. Of the six chapters, Catt has written or compiled those entitled, "Why the Federal Amendment?"; "Election Laws and Referenda"; "The Story of the 1916 Referenda" and "Objections to the Federal Amendment". Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NYC, contributed the two chapters focusing on state issues. Appendix A reviews suffrage in other countries; Appendix B classifies the "36 male suffrage states" according to how state constitutions are amended and how difficult passage of woman suffrage according to the NAWSA. Woman suffrage had received a disheartening setback in 1915 when Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania all voted down state referenda on the question. Anna Howard Shaw's faltering presidency finally ended and Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded her to the head of the NAWSA. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Catt's "Winning Plan" [NAW] and which sought passage of a suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. [Robert Booth Fowler's essay "Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist" in ONE WOMEN, ONE VOTE is invaluable for its fine analysis of Catt's political skills. He emphasizes how controversial her "winning plan" was when Catt insisted that suffrage be pursued on the federal level.] 1917 proved the pivotal year in this long campaign. This book underscores Catt's insistence on persuasion by reason. (Though Catt also cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators. As a politician and a general she was quite prepared to promulgate a 'take no prisoners' policy when necessary.) Here, the dry titles of the articles provide intentional camouflage; in fact, the book is a decisive plan-of-action conceived and executed by a skilled and determined strategist of the first order. May Brayton Briggs became a supporter of woman suffrage, as she wrote, "not because I desired and decided to be, and then sought props to support my position but because my reading, observing and thinking, gradually brought me to the conclusions which I found were in harmony with those held by the advocates of equal suffrage". The Kroch Library at Cornell University now holds various manuscripts which Briggs wrote during the campaign for women suffrage in Massachusetts: notes for speeches, verses on anti suffrage complaints and being on the stump, etc. She was a lively, energetic voice on behalf of women's rights. NAW I, pp. 309-312 (re Carrie Chapman Catt). Weatherford, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT. Wheeler, ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE, pp. 295-314. Krichmar 1517. A copy exceptional for its provenance and condition.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt
Catt, Carrie Chapman (ed).
New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917.
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Crepe Paper Handkerchief: PROGRAMME AND SOUVENIR Hyde Park, Sunday, June 21st
[Suffrage Ephemera],
[NP: , ca. 1908].
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Small cloth pennant: 10" (wide) x 5-1/2" (high), gold cotton simply cut in the shape of a rectangle with an added triangle; strip of gold paper (6" x 1") printed in black "Votes for Women" pasted to cloth; roughly basted pocket for stick or handle along left edge. Some fraying along edges, but very good. The Textile Conservation Workshop has cleaned and stabilized the pennant. A copy of their POST TREATMENT REPORT accompanies. This simple pennant underscores that suffragists usually handmade the body sashes, flags, pennants and banners which announced to the public their suffrage cause. Such ephemera became an integral part of the woman suffrage campaign during its last decade as the NAWSA, the Woman's Party and their affiliates found public demonstrations an increasingly effective means of keeping the women's rights campaign before the public. What this little pennant lacks in polish, it gains in the sense of immediacy which arises from it. Neither a product of a sewing machine nor of a sweat shop, this was put together by a suffragist intent only on avowing her allegiance.
Small Suffrage Pennant with Paper Slogan, "Votes for Women"
[Suffrage Ephemera],
[NP]: , [ND].
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Manuscript Essay: WOMANS SUFFRAGE
[Suffrage] Thompson, Mrs. F.E..
[NP: , ca. 1912].
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First edition. First issue, according to Sabin, with the ampersand (February 14 & 15, 1854) at the title page and lacking the appendix at the verso of p. 19. 8vo, 19pp; lacking the original wrappers. With some dampstaining along the upper to outer margins throughout; a 1" tear to upper margin (throughout the pamphlet) together with some light stains, creases and various notches and tears to the top and outer edges. Good only, but then we have handled just one other copy, also in distinctly lesser condition. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), reformer and suffragist, organized with Lucretia Mott the famed Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, drafted their "Declaration of Sentiments" in which she averred "men and women are created equal" and, over the objections of her husband and Mott, proposed the vote for women. It was "the first public demand on record for woman suffrage". For years Elizabeth Cady Stanton had seen desperate women turn to her father, an eminent lawyer, for legal recourse to abusive husbands, debts, etc. and to see them turned away; for women, especially married women, the law offered neither succor nor justice. They were their husband’s property. As a child she marked the offensive passages in law books denying women rights and attempted to cut them out. As an adult she sought through print and lecture, through petition and persuasion to right these legal wrongs. In 1854 she received an unprecedented invitation to address the New York state legislature. It was familiar to her: her husband, her father and her grandfather had all served there. In her address Stanton forcefully canvassed the limits that constrained woman as citizen, wife, widow and mother with "no right even to the wages she earns", and "no redress for wrongs in her own name in any court of justice..." Her eloquence bore fruit when in 1860 New York granted women the right to their own wages and equal guardianship of their children. "Address" marks an important milestone, the first time that legislators would consider seriously the legal plight of women and be moved to change it. A slight document of great significance. Franklin, p. 23. Sabin 90398. Though not noted in OCLC, AAS holds a copy of the first issue. Likely the Library of Congress, in its holdings of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers, also has a copy and the Kroch Library of Cornell in its Gerritsen Collection. In any case, the first issue is decidedly scarce.
ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK Adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention, held at Albany, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 & 15 1854
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854.
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Cabinet photograph: Image, 5-1/2 x 3-15/16", photographer's board, 6-3/8 x 4-1/8", albumen print mounted to off-white printed photographer's board. The photograph is a three-quarters portrait with an aged Mott seated, wearing Quaker garb of a plain dress and a white cap. "Lucretia Mott / Quaker - Abolitionist- Phila." in black ink at reverse (not in Mott's hand). Tiny nick to image at upper edge; mild overall use and age-toning with a few light stains to the board. Very good. Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), Quaker minister, a pioneer in the women's rights movement and abolitionist, gave her formidable intelligence and spirit to key 19th c. reform movements. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 and this historic meeting resulted in the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848. She spent her life trying to better the lives of those less fortunate: whether working for abolition or, after the Civil War, pressing for Negro suffrage and furtherance of their educational opportunities, working for women's rights, speaking on behalf of religious freedom or calling for the end to capital punishment. She contributed much to this country's notions of right and wrong, social justice and personal commitment to ideals. Photographer Isaac G. Tyson, with his brother, took a number of photographs in Gettysburg during the Civil War where they had a gallery. Later he moved to Philadelphia and acquired a reputation as a portrait photographer. As well as Lucretia Mott, Tyson photographed James Mott, Mary Ann McClintock (another of the Seneca Falls four) and Edward Hicks. Mott had posed for the photographer at least once earlier. Swarthmore Friends Historical Library holds a copy of the albumen print, which dates it to June 4, 1878. The library also holds another photograph taken around the same time of Lucretia with daughter Maria Mott Davis and granddaughters Anna D. Hallowell and Maria Hallowell. A handsome image. We have not been able to locate another copy other than that at Swarthmore.
CABINET PHOTOGRAPH
[Mott, Lucretia].
[Philadelphia: Tyson, ND, but June 4, 1878].
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Signed Stock Certificate, for One Share of the WOMAN'S JOURNAL, property of the NAWSA
[Suffrage] Blackwell, Alice Stone.
Boston: The Proprietor's of the Woman's Journal, October 31, 1910.
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Celluloid button: 3/4" in diameter, straight pin catch at reverse; yellow ground with "VOTES / FOR WOMEN" in black lettering; manufacturer's paper present at back, printed white on orange. Mild superficial wear with some darkening of the yellow background. Very good. California held its first state referendum on the woman suffrage question in 1896. Despite vigorous campaigning by Susan B. Anthony, then 76 years old, and other notable suffrage leaders, the referendum went down to defeat. Fifteen years later suffragists persuaded state lawmakers to put the issue before the voters again and this time, by a breathtakingly narrow margin, suffragists carried the day. While it is not possible to ascertain definitively whether the button came from this campaign, certainly the presence of a California manufacturer's paper points to such a conclusion. Ted Hake gives the dates of The Wm. L. Hoegee Co. of Los Angeles as 1906-1920, which jibes with a 1911 manufacture date. Bastion Bros. of Rochester and Whitehead & Hoag of Baltimore produced many suffrage buttons distributed throughout the northeast. This is the first button, however, we have seen clearly produced in California.
Button: "Votes for Women"
[Suffrage Ephemera],
[Los Angeles: The Wm. L. Hoegee Co., ca. 1911].
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Broadside: "The Congress Shall Have Power to Enforce this Article by Appropriate Legislation." Can Any Legislator Vote for This and Not Break His Oath of Office to His State?
[Anti Suffrage] Callaway, James.
Montgomery: Brown Printing Co., ca. 1919.
Price: $500.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
Price: $450.00
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