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Historical Essay

Theodora Winton Youmans and Women's Suffrage

Read about this Wisconsonite, whose leadership in the Women's Suffrage Movement helped Wisconsin become the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment.
Postcard

Votes for Women

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a drawing of a well-dressed woman holding a pennant that reads "Votes for Women." Although no date is given, based on the postage price of 1 ...
Photograph

Jessie Jack Hooper

Date: 
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Jessie Jack Hooper.
Magazine or Periodical

Get Thee Behind Me, [Mrs.] Satan!

Date: 02 17 1872
Description: Political cartoon depicting a woman on a rocky path carrying two children and a drunken husband on her back being tempted by Victoria Woodhull depicted as ...
Photograph

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Victoria Woodhull. The drawing was done during her marriage to John Biddulph Martin.
Photograph

Final Meeting of the Suffragette Council

Date: 04 23 1925
Description: Group portrait of the Suffragette Council at the Washington Hotel. The women are gathered on a large patio lined with street lamps. Jessie Jack Hooper is i...
Photograph

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

James Sisters

Date: 1895
Description: Formal oval-framed group portrait of Vida James, Ada James and Beulah James. Ada James (center back) later became active in the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage ...
Photograph

Ada James at her Desk

Date: 
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

Voter Registration Benefit for Mississippi

Date: 08 08 1964
Description: The original caption states: "Willie Peacock, Charleston, Mississippi, field secretary for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commission, discussing the Summ...
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...
Print

"The Revolution"

Date: 07 15 1869
Description: Page one of the "The Revolution."
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...

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