women rights

Millicent Fawcett's Hyde Park address1913

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Procession of the religious leagues for women's suffrage, c.1914.

7JCC/O/02/028Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, line of women in the street wearing sandwich boards, each with the name of a different religious suffrage society, led by a women bring a banner 'Religious L... More

The bandits bride vide Herald May 5th 1847

Lith. & pub. by H.R. Robinson 142 Nassau St. N. York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Miscellany; Drawing

Grace Greenwood - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Accession Number: 1974:0193:0067..Maker: Southworth & Hawes..Title: Grace Greenwood..Date: ca. 1850..Medium: daguerreotype..Dimensions: whole plate; 21.6 x 16.5 cm...George Eastman House Collection.1974:0193:00... More

Women's Rights - Ladies take your own choice - Polka and Mazurka

Musical cover showing three women (two holding eye glasses) in front of a piano and music shop. LOT subdivision subject: Fashion. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by... More

Ye May session of ye woman's rights convention - ye orator of ye day d...

After T.M.N. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 3 (1859 June 11), p. 372. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated;...

Free love and women's rights [cartoon showing woman asking booksller f...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 30 (1870 April 30), p. 112.

Women's Rights: Off to lecture room

Man seated at table and woman going out door. Stereo copyrighted by F.G. Weller. No. 330. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Laundry and laundries; Women Rights of Wo... More

[Group of women standing in a semi-circle, formally dressed, holding b...

Massachusetts adopted a 10 hour day for women in May 1874. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Housed in envelope marked: Women's Committee, 1873. Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. C... More

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947; A...

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947; M...

Sojourner Truth, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Quotation: "If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women all togedder ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up agin."

The new woman--wash day - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Posed cliché of woman in knickers smoking cigarette and watching man wash laundry in tub. 40642 U.S. Copyright Office. Similar images: LC-USZ62-98405 and LC-USZ62-98406.

At the woman's club / Frank A. Nankivell '99.

Print shows two fashionably dressed young women, one sitting in a chair with her left foot resting on her right knee, holding a cane and gloves, and smoking a cigarette, the other is sitting on the edge of a ta... More

Susan B. Anthony - Public domain portrait print

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Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Give mother the vote, we need it..Date: n.d...Catalog Record: bit.ly/1ADhzVY ( http://bit.ly/1ADhzVY ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://asklib.schlesinger.radcliffe.edu/index.php )

Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Votes for Women, Equality is the Sacred Law of Humanity..Date: ca. 1903-1926..Catalog record: bit.ly/1uxRI13 ( http://bit.ly/1uxRI13 ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://asklib.schlesinger.radcli... More

Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Votes for Women 1d Weekly..Date: ca. 1903-1926..Catalog record: bit.ly/ZijxzE ( http://bit.ly/ZijxzE ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://asklib.schlesinger.radcliffe.edu/index.php )

Mrs. May Wright Sewall, late Pres. International Council of Women

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, May Eliza Wright Sewall, facing forward, wearing lace collar and ruffled dress.

Suffragette Procession, 1911. - Public domain demonstration print

7JCC/O/01/055Photographic postcard, printed, paper, monochrome, suffragette process taken from above, Christabel Pankhurst in a white dress and academic robes walking ahead of a banner '690 IMPRISONMENTS TO WIN... More

Miss Julia Marlowe of New York, the well known actress, is one of the ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of actress Julia Marlowe, hair loose, facing camera. Research indicates uncropped version of this photograph was published as a postcard by the ... More

Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Women's Suffrage March and Mass Meeting, Saturday June 13th, Embankment 3 o'clock, Albert Hall 4:30..Date: 1907-1918..Catalog Record: bit.ly/1qNMInn ( http://bit.ly/1qNMInn ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Libr... More

Trixie Friganza between other suffragettes on top of steps, New York

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Miss Edythe [Edith] Wynne Matthison of Connecticut is one of the promi...

Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of actress Edith Wynne Matthison. Autographed "Yours sincerely, Edith Wynne Matthison." Title transcribed from item. Life dates obtained from research sources. Photograph pu... More

Amalia E. Mallen de Ostalaza, Pres. of Nat[ional] Suffrage Party of Cu...

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The manicure / W.E. Hill '10. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat, smoking a cigarette, and getting a manicure from a man wearing a suit.

I do not have all the rights I want. By "Jane"

Keepsake women's rights card.

American suffragists, 1911. - A group of women standing next to each o...

7JCC/O/02/077.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a group of five women holding American flags; printed caption on reverse 'The United States of America will be well represented in the procession of Suffrag... More

Flora MacDonald Denison, Pres[ident] Canadian Suffrage Association.

Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, left profile, Flora MacDonald Denison, president, Canadian Suffrage Association, wearing off-the-shoulder dress. Title and name and address of photographer transcri... More

Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Dispossessed..Date: ca. 1911..Catalog Record: bit.ly/1pTIoPs ( http://bit.ly/1pTIoPs ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://asklib.schlesinger.radcliffe.edu/index.php )

We want our rights Rea Irvin - Public domain print

Single panel cartoon, drawn in the style of the decoration on a Greek vase, shows Susan B. Anthony, clad in flowing garments, poking a startled man in the chest with an umbrella. She is followed by other women... More

Looking backward / Laura E. Foster., Political Cartoon

Cartoon showing a woman at the top of a staircase with steps labeled "Loneliness," "Anxiety," "Suffrage" and "Career", approaching a stand labeled "Fame," as she looks back at children holding out flowers stand... More

Ancient history / Rea Irvin. - Public domain dedication image

Magazine cover showing a Susan B. Anthony-like figure in classical dress thrusting an umbrella at a man in a toga. Another woman holds sign reading "We want our rights." Illus. in: Life. New York : Life magazin... More

Suffrage open air meeting at the National Capitol demanding that Congr...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with crowds of people, bicyclist, trolleys and cars. Speakers on sidewalk platform at building at corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th St., Was... More

Women Marching in Suffragette Parade, Washington, DC

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Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Votes for Women poster..Date: 1913..Catalog Record: bit.ly/1qnXGlK ( http://bit.ly/1qnXGlK ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://asklib.schlesinger.radcliffe.edu/index.php )

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL

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Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

Votes for Women A Success. Imitation is the Sincerest Flattery!!..Date: ca. 1914..Catalog Record: bit.ly/1qnXt1R ( http://bit.ly/1qnXt1R ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://asklib.schlesinger.ra... More

TR speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] [1] /

Three sequences of TR addressing groups from the porch at Sagamore Hill. First sequence is TR speaking to a group of people on Sept. 8, 1917 at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign at Saga... More

Ada S. Flatman., Washington DC. National Woman Party

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[Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, Oc...

Summary: Photograph of women suffrage activists wearing suffrage sashes demonstrating with signs at city street corner. Signs read "President Wilson How Long Do You Advise Us to Wait?", "Vote Against Wilson He ... More

Women's rights in Utah - Public domain scan / drawing

Caricature showing woman carving and 5 men seated at table. Halftone repro. of drawing by Harriet M. Olcott. Illus. in: Puck, 1916 Sept. 2, p. 14. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - WOMEN RIGHTS 1916. This record c... More

[Grand Picket at the White House, eve of President Woodrow Wilson's se...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph on a rainy day of a woman standing on chair in slicker and rain hat speaking through a megaphone to suffragists standing with suffrage banners. On... More

Miss Nina Samarodin, of Kiev, Russia, one of the members of the Nation...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Nina Samarodin. Similar photograph printed in The Suffragist (Oct. 27, 1917), n. p. Nina Samarodin was born in Kiev, Russia, and graduated fr... More

TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill...

TR addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of TR and a frontal view shot from the rear of th... More

My dear lady, I go further than believing in woman suffrage, I maintai...

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 69:688 (April 19, 1917).

Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917] /

Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was rejected by the vo... More

Miss Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, speaking from the balcony of the Na...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jeannette Rankin, at NAWSA headquarters, speaking from balcony, flags festooned above her. Photograph has been retouched and marked with crop marks for public... More

[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Stat...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Jessie Benton MacKaye speaking (second from left,... More

Miss Ting in attendance at the International Conference of Women Physi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Miss Ting, standing by window, facing camera, hands clasped before her, wearing Chinese dress and watch, with pen inserted in dress near collar.

[National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of six National Woman's Party members gathered around and watching Alice Paul stitching ratification flag. Mabel Vernon (seated far left), Alice P... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL

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[The sky is now her limit] / Bushnell.

Cartoon shows a young woman carrying buckets on a yoke, looking up at ladder ascending up to the sky, bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery," and "Shop Work." Top rungs labeled "Equal Suffrage," "Wage... More

Clara Snell Wolfe, 1st Vice Chairman National Woman's Party and Chairm...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Clara Snell Wolfe, facing forward, wearing eyeglasses and v-neck dress with wide bands of embroidery . Verso: "1841 Roxbury... More

Gov[ernor] Emmett D. Boyle of Nevada signing resolution for ratificati...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of suffragists watching the governor of Nevada sign resolution for ratification in his office.

Republican Convention. L-R: Mrs. James Rector, Ohio, Mary Dubrow, N.J....

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mrs. James Rector, Mary Dubrow, and Alice Paul standing outside and holding a banner, "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party... More

[Katharine Field] daughter of Sara Bard Field.

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Katharine Field, standing in front of marble display case outside National Woman's Party headquarters, ... More

Madame J. C. De Veyra, wife of the Philippino Commissioner to the Unit...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Madame J. C. DeVeyra, wearing fur hat and fur coat. Explanatory (typed) caption included with image, headlined: "WORLD PROMIN... More

Mrs. [Miss] Julia Obear. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, Julia Obear, full-length, facing right with head turned toward camera, wearing knickers, sweater and cap, standing outdoors with bicycle.

Justice. Miss Florence Hanlin as Justice in the Dance Drama presented ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, full-length, Florence Hanlin, facing left, standing outside in front of lake, posing as Justice, holding scales in outstretched hand and wearing l... More

Miss Virginia Moran of Seneca Falls as "Truth" in the Dnace [Dance] Dr...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Virginia Moran, facing forward, standing outdoors by a lake, holding in right hand a pole with a stylized cross, part of a c... More

Columbus Day conference Pan Amer. Internat'l Women's Committee. Mrs. R...

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Mary Van Casteel, chairman Students' Council National Woman's Party, a...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mary Van Casteel, facing slightly left with head turned toward camera, wearing dress with lace collar and lace cuffs on sho... More

Hazel MacKaye, noted pageant director, who is in charge of the big out...

Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Hazel MacKaye, turned to the left, facing camera, standing outdoors in front of a lake. Title and information transcribed from item. Deleted from original caption is pas... More

Eva Le Gallienne, Chrmn. - Actresses Council National Advisory Council...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Eva Le Gallienne, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing embroidered blouse and short-cropped hair.

Madame Alla Nazimova, the great Emotional actress, picks up the Purple...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Alla Nazimova, looking up, standing with tricolor NWP banner draped across chest. Verso: "Photos & Publicity File N... More

Aletta Jacobs. - Public domain portrait print

Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs, seated with elbows resting on arms of chair and hands clasped in lap, wearing loose v-neck dress with pin. Title supplied by Library of Congress staf... More

Burnita Shelton Mat[t]hews - Public domain portrait photograph

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Burnita Shelton Matthews, turned to the right, facing camera.

Miss Zonia Baber, representative in United States of the women of Port...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, seated, Miss Zonia Baber (left), representative of the women of Puerto Rico, and Burnita Shelton Matthews (right), legal research secretary ... More

Emma Anatole France, Member, Int'l Advisory Comm.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, full-length, Emma Anatole France standing in garden between two large urns, wearing a headdress, and holding a long flower stalk. Photograph publi... More

Miss Emma Wold, Technical Adviser (legal, on nationality), to U.S. Del...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Emma Wold, wearing white blouse with brooch and dark jacket. Photograph supplied by Mrs. Pauline A. Freden, Baltimore, Md., for publ... More

Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer, author of "Lummox," "Ba...

Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Fannie Hurst, facing left with head turned toward camera and left hand resting against face, wearing dark, long-sleeved, turtleneck outfit. Title transcribed from capti... More

Eleanor Roosevelt Meets Muriel Denison

The following information is from an article entitled 'Canadian Feminists in the International Arena' by Philippa Schmiegelow. The full article can be seen here: pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/vi... More

Mary Ann Shadd Cary House, 1421 W Street Northwest, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Home, from 1881-86, of Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-93). Cary is an important figure in African-American history, being the first black newspaperwoman in North America, proponent of women's rights, ... More

Eleanor Roosevelt Meets Muriel Denison

The following information is from an article entitled 'Canadian Feminists in the International Arena' by Philippa Schmiegelow. The full article can be seen here: pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/vi... More

[Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the...

Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Mary Pickford, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a suit and hat, and holding a sheet of Equal Rights seals. Title derived by Library of Congres... More

Photograph of a Suffragette Parade in New York City

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Three African American women at a polling place, one looking at a book...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from: "The Negro vote: Republican gamble that failed?", U.S. News and World Report, Nov. 15, 1957, p. 39-40. Contact sheet available for re... More

The Baha'i Faith: an approach to the equality of men and women

Text in English and Spanish. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Now - A black and white photo of a woman on the beach

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A woman's place is in the house... and also in the Senate!

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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahl...

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Strike! While the iron is hot! Wages for housework.

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National Women's Liberation Conference, Wellington, April 1 & 2

Poster showing fist in female symbol. (Possibly refers to a conference held in Wellington, New Zealand.) Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972.

A woman has the right to protect herself from mental and physical abus...

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Repeal all abortion laws

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New country - A black and white photo of a store window

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Women's Liberation Conference - Public domain photogrpaph

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Fight for women's liberation Vote Socialist Workers.

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Women's liberation Vote Socialist Workers, 1970.

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Women's liberation - A picture of a woman's liberation poster

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Women's liberation - A women's liberation sticker on a ruler

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Women's liberation march from Farrugut Square to Layfette i.e., Lafaye...

Photograph shows women carrying banners and signs while marching down a street in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration in favor of equal rights for women. Title transcribed from contact sheet folder caption... More

Women's Strike, August 26

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Women's liberation conference, Barnard and Columbia campuses, March 6 ...

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Radical Women annual conference : Saturday & Sunday, April 8 ... April...

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Women's Suffrage Day in Fountain Square

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"Oh, yes. Women should have the right to use their own names after mar...

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