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Group of Women Reading

Date: 1910
Description: A group of women reading in a large room. One woman stands in front of a glass-fronted bookcase against the back wall. The woman wear brightly colored and ...
Photograph

Group of Women

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of a group of women posed outdoors in front of a building. During Carrie's travels, she spent time talking to local suffragettes and women's...
Photograph

Ada James at her Desk

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Description: Suffragist Ada James sitting at her desk.
Photograph

Maud McCreery

Date: 1912
Description: Maud McCreery speaking from the back seat of a car during a Women's Suffrage in Wisconsin Campaign. Mrs. McCreery was a women's suffrage activist who worke...
Photograph

Women Congratulate Governor Blaine for Signing the Women's Rights Bill

Date: 1921
Description: Governor John J. Blaine (left) shaking the hand of Mabel Raef Putnam surrounded by other women of who have come to see the governor sign the Women's Rights...
Photograph

Reverend Olympia Brown Willis

Date: 1907
Description: Portrait of the Reverend Olympia Brown Willis, of Racine. She was the first president of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association.
Photograph

Ada L. James

Date: 1911
Description: Portrait of Ada L. James, who was the first president of the Political Equality League, and a lifelong crusader for social justice causes.
Photograph

Carrie Chapman Catt

Date: 1911
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader in the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
Book or Pamphlet

Suffrage Map

Date: 03 23 1912
Description: A map showing proportions of women's suffrage in the United States.
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1901
Description: Full-length studio portrait of activist Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of Belle Case La Follette wearing a hat. Text on back of print reads: "In the garden of their house on 16th St. in Washington near Comm Av...
Photograph

Ada James

Date: 1906
Description: Quarter-length portrait of activist Ada James at around 30 years of age.
Photograph

Mrs. Henry M. Youmans

Date: 
Description: Waist-up portrait of suffragist Theodora Youmans (Mrs. Henry M.).
Photograph

Petitions on Display at the General Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 1932
Description: Caption from the Wisconsin Magazine of History: "Eight million petitions on public display in Geneva."
Poster

Women Can Vote

Date: 1919
Description: Poster for school elections on Tuesday, March 18th, and April 1st, 1919. After 1901, women in Wisconsin were able to vote in school elections, which was an...
Photograph

Wisconsin Banner at Seneca Falls Equal Rights Convention and Historical Pageant

Date: 1923
Description: Group of Wisconsin delegates posing with banner outdoors. Left to right: Mrs. Jackowsky-Peterson, Mrs. Gustav Hipke, Mrs. Max Rotter, Miss Lenore Cawker. F...
Photograph

Katherine McCullough

Date: 1912
Description: Katherine McCullough speaking to a small group of men in campaign for women's suffrage in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Katherine McCullough

Date: 1912
Description: Katherine McCullough speaking to a group outdoors to campaign for women's suffrage in Wisconsin.
Document

Theodore Roosevelt Signature

Date: 1912
Description: Signature and note from Theodore Roosevelt on a card. "Printed on the card: "I intend to vote for Woman Suffrage Nov. 5, 1912. Name [Teddy Roosevelt] Addre...
Historical Object

Jane Addams

Date: 
Description: Album page that includes newspaper clippings of articles, and a portrait of Miss Addams.

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