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Handbill - 8 x5-1/4", printed black on buff paper, with printer's union logo present. Printed both sides: "Suffrage Song" on one side, "Battle Hymn" on the other. Slight rumpling and mild creasing; 1/4" closed tear to left edge (not affecting text). Very good. Music and suffrage songs became an integral part of suffrage meetings, rallies, conventions and marches. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, for instance, in 1886, reported a meeting at which an adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's ditty with the lines "and his cousins & his sisters & his aunts" had been promised with all those female relatives, of course, receiving the vote. Often, suffrage songs were parodies or adaptations, such as here with this version of "America". ["My country 'tis for thee/To make your women free, This is our plea./High have our hopes been raised/In these enlightened days/That for her justice, praised/Our land might be." (1st verse)] In 1909 a suffrage songbook was published which included "original songs, parodies and paraphrases" according to its subtitle. Two years later Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her "Suffrage Songs and Verses". Julia Ward Howe's great lyric, "Battle Hymn of the Republic", held a special niche in the woman's rights movement, however. The example of Howe's leadership and the stirring words of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" helped to stiffen the resolve of suffragists through the many long years it took to achieve their purpose. More than any other lyric or song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was the suffrage anthem. Given the lightweight stock on which this was printed, probably the handbill was distributed at a rally or march and intended to have a few hours' of use only. An unlikely but eloquent survivor.
"Suffrage Song To Be Sung to the Tune of 'America' " with "Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe"
[Suffrage],
[NP]: [NAWSA], [ND].
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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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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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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
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Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10", folded to 6-1/2 x 5", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial "E" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; "1909" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: "I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other — ". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), "Mother Bloor", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Bloor, Ella Reeve.
[Connecticut]: to "Friends of N.J.W.S.A.", Nov. 15h [1909].
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. Nov., 1895].
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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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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.
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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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Broadside: single sheet, 10-7/8 x 8", printed black on buff stock (single side). Pencil notation in a large hand at the upper right corner "1916". Generally very good. In 1916 Alice Paul and her National Woman's Party emulated the example of British suffragettes and campaigned against the party in power during the 1916 elections. The broadside declares "The President / refused to support the federal amendment and declared his personal opposition to it'. It lambastes Democratic legislators for their failure to pass a federal amendment. It details the faltering efforts of the Sixty-third Congress such as a near miss in the Senate: "The vote of the Senate on the amendment was 35 for and 34 against. It failed to secure the necessary two-thirds' majority by only eleven votes". And the broadside renders a succinct and damning assessment of the Sixty-fourth Congress: "The President / reiterated his opposition...In the Senate / no effort has been made by the Democratic party to pass the suffrage amendment through Congress". The strategy infuriated Democratic legislators who had long supported woman suffrage and provoked exasperation and frustration in Carrie Chapman Catt who saw NAWSA's careful nurturing of legislative ties blasted. Democratic legislators, stung by the attempts by the National Woman's Party to deter their reelection (which met with some success), cooled toward the movement. When the 19th amendment finally gained the necessary votes in the House and the Senate in 1919, Republicans rather than Democrats made passage possible. Alice Paul's strategy had an immediate impact on the woman suffrage movement, but its effects continued into the next decade when women voters, perhaps mindful of the role of the Republican Party in the success of the 19th Amendment, flocked to that party. Literature published by the National Woman's Party is uncommon. This broadside, detailing the sins of the Democratic party and urging the defection of woman suffrage supporters from their candidates, documents a pivotal event in the suffrage movement. OCLC does not locate a copy.
Broadside: WOMEN VOTERS VOTE AGAINST WILSON HE OPPOSES NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
[Suffrage],
Washington, D.C.: National Woman's Party, [ca. 1916].
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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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Celluloid pinback button: 5/8" in diameter with simple straight catch at back, cream ground with "VOTES / FOR / WOMEN / INDIANA; paper backing of Bastion Bros. at reverse. Fine. Though Indiana formed a woman suffrage organization in 1851, just three years after the Seneca Falls Convention, by 1900 the movement had gained little ground. In the last decade of the campaign, however, Indiana's woman suffrage organizations reenergized themselves. They first pursued an amendment to the state constitution. When the governor proposed calling a state constitutional convention in 1912, suffragists then focused on persuading convention delegates to draft language permitting women to vote. It was another four years before the new constitution was put before the voters. Suffragists tirelessly lobbied delegates, handed out literature and distributed campaign materials. This button likely came out of this period of intense activity by Indiana suffragists.
Button: "Votes for Women Indiana"
[Suffrage Ephemera],
Rochester, N.Y.: Bastion Bros. Co., c. 1911-1917].
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Celluloid button: 7/8" in diameter with straight pin catch at reverse, 3/16" purple rim with white lettering surrounding green center; with legend "VOTES" (at upper purple margin of button), "FOR" (at green center), "WOMEN" (at lower purple margin). At reverse is button paper printed "Connecticut / Woman Suffrage / Association / 55-57 Pratt St. / Hartford, Conn." with union slug. Tiny dot of wear to celluloid at right margin (just near the "N" in "Women"). Very good. The button, probably issued during the last decade of the fight for woman suffrage, is one of the relatively few pins issued unique to a particular state. A state organization often adapted the familiar black and gold "Votes for Women" button by using a backing paper imprinted for its particular association. The purple/white/green colors of the button are adopted from the British woman suffrage movement whose influence Harriot Stanton Blatch brought to bear in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Button: "Votes for Women"
[Suffrage],
(52-55 Pratt St., Hartford, Conn.): Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, [ND, but c. 1910-1920].
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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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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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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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Crepe Paper Handkerchief: PROGRAMME AND SOUVENIR Hyde Park, Sunday, June 21st
[Suffrage Ephemera],
[NP: , ca. 1908].
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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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Flyer: 9 x 6", printed black on off-white stock. Folded twice; short tears at creases (at edges) with a few closed tears at left margin (not affecting text). Good. Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and their associates organized the first national woman suffrage parade which took place on March 3, 1913 in Washington, DC just prior to Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Onlookers thronged to see the marchers. Some might be anti-suffrage, but they came and they looked. Suffragists realized parades and public demonstrations could be an effective means to publicize the movement. More automobile caravans, parades, rallies and demonstrations followed. Organized by the Congressional Union under the direction of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, with the cooperation of the NAWSA, on May 9, 1914 a procession in Washington, DC of suffrage supporters marched from Lafayette Square to the east plaza of the Capitol and presented state suffrage resolutions to a committee of senators and congressman. UP HILL WITH BANNERS FLYING records: "At the foot of the Capitol steps, the enormous gathering sang the WOMAN'S MARCH. Then five hundred and thirty-one delegates representing every Congressional and Senatorial district in the country...marched up the long steps into the great Rotunda of the Capitol". Mrs. A.M. Blair is likely Apolline Madison Blair (b. 1860) who served as President of the Board of Lady Managers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis and who, according to the WOMAN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA, "became distinguished for her promotion of organizations to popularize higher ideals of musical culture". The flyer notes: "Members of the Chorus are asked to wear white", which very quickly had become the standard dress code for suffrage parades. Irwin, UP HILL WITH BANNERS FLYING, pp. 66-67. WOMAN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA, p. 104.
Flyer: A CHORUS OF 100 WOMEN'S VOICES Under the direction of Mrs. A.M. Blair will Sing on the East Capitol Steps at the close of the Suffrage Procession on Saturday
[Suffrage],
[NP: , c. 1914].
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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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