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The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing signatures to petitions to be presented to the constitutional convention - scene at Sherry's
Women signing a petition to receive suffrage in their state New York. Halftone Photomechanical Prints. 1894. This was after the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified, soon it will be the twentieth century and with it World War I and the…
[Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's Opposition to Woman Suffrage, October 1916]
Women were protesting President Wilson because he opposed women's suffrage. 8.5 x 11.5 in. Digitized Photograph. 1916. World War I has started but the United States of America has not joined the war yet. Before World War I the President was…
Back Our Girls Over There United War Work Campaign
A poster to convince people to help the women over in Europe helping with the war effort. Lithograph. 1918. World War I, everyone is helping with the war effort, even women who were previously barred from the workforce. Nursing was not the only job…
Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [Holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]
A woman protesting the treatment of women who are suffrage prisoners. 4.25 x 7 in. 1917. This was taken the year before World War I ended. This shows the treatment of the women who wanted their suffrage, they were treated as if they were criminals…
[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Statue in Washington, D.C.]
Women are burning a speech by President Wilson to protest his stance on women's suffrage. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1918. World War I is almost over, and in two years the Nineteenth Amendment will be ratified giving women the right to…
Bertha Moller, left, and Bertha Arnold hold party banner which was held at the Senate Office Building, ca. 1917.
Women holding senators accountable for keeping women from voting. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will enter it soon. Women will receive suffrage in three years. Women are not only fighting…
Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison
Women arrested for wanting to vote are released from prison. 4 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will do so later that year. Women were arrested because they wanted to vote, one of the women in…
[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]
A political cartoon about the public's acceptance of women's suffrage after women's performance during World War I. Digitization of a drawing. 1917. World War I was still happening and would not end until the next year, but there had already been…
We Want Our Rights
This was a drawing on the front cover of Life magazine. 1912. World War I would start for the rest of the world in three years, and the Women's Rights Movement in American was beginning again after Susan B. Anthony died less than ten years before,…
["Silent Sentinel" Alison Turnbull Hopkins at the White House on New Jersey Day.]
A Photograph of a women standing outside the White House with a banner demanding that Woodrow Wilson give women suffrage. 5x 7 in. Digitized photograph. 1917. The year before the end of World War I and soon after the Nineteenth Amendment giving…