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[Rosalie Jones]. - An old photo of a woman holding a bunch of flowers

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Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, standing, Rosalie Jones, wearing long dress and hooded cloak, holding walking stick, bouquet of flowers, papers, and cloth satchel.

Suffragettes Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 1800s, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women. Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted all women the right to vote. Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917; Britain, Germany, Poland in 1918; Austria and the Netherlands in 1919; and the United States in 1920. Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood: "The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena..."

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jones rosalie women suffrage new york state suffragists new york rosalie jones civil rights movements women suffrage womens right to vote 19th amendment constitutional amendments nineteenth amendment woman suffrage movement high resolution ultra high resolution records of the national woman party women of protest photographs from the records of the national woman party washington harris and ewing rosalie jones library of congress
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01/01/1913
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Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)
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label_outline Explore Rosalie Jones, Washington Harris And Ewing, Records Of The National Woman Party

Mrs. Bertha C. Moller of Minneapolis, Minn.

[Suffragists distributing hand bills advertising March 3, 1913, suffrage parade.]

Women Ask President for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent members of the New National Woman's Party called at the White House today to ask the president's aid in passing an "Equal Rights Bill" in the next Congress. The bill would give women full equality in the government service, give married women citizenship in their own right and make women of the District of Columbia eligible to serve on juries, equal guardianship rights, and equal rights of inheritance and contract. Photograph shows suffragists with President Harding at the White House.

Party members picketing the Republican convention, Chicago, June 1920. L-R Abby Scott Baker, Florence Taylor Marsh, Sue White, Elsie Hill, Betty Gram.

Colorado's ratification of suffrage amendment, Dec. 12, 1919.

Speaker Gillette, Jane Addams and Sarah Bard Field, the three Speakers at the Woman's Memorial Services in the Capitol on Tuesday evening, February 15, standing in Front of the Memorial Statue, which represents Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

Nell Mercer, Norfolk, Virginia - Public domain portrait

Policeman in Syracuse welcoming Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer [Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer] [and Miss Vida Milholland] on arrival of Prison Special.

Mrs. Frederick Forrest, Spokane, Washington, newly elected state chairman for Washington.

Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York, the first delegate to the convention of the National Woman's Party to arrive at Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, Miss Ainge is holding the New York state banner which will be carried by New York's delegation of 68 women at the convention meeting in Washington February 15th-18th.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Rosalie Jones' Army Suffragettes (hiking)

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jones rosalie women suffrage new york state suffragists new york rosalie jones civil rights movements women suffrage womens right to vote 19th amendment constitutional amendments nineteenth amendment woman suffrage movement high resolution ultra high resolution records of the national woman party women of protest photographs from the records of the national woman party washington harris and ewing rosalie jones library of congress