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["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…
[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…
[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…
[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…
American Nurse, American Ambulance, Paris
An American nurse treating a soldier during World War I. 5 x 7 in. Glass negatives. 1914. The United States of American had not officially entered World War I and would not do so until 1917, but the United States of America did fund their Allies and…
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…
Be a Trained Nurse
A poster to convince women to become trained nurses for the war effort. 76 x 54 cm. Lithograph. 1917 or 1918. World War I is happening and the war effort needs women to treat soldiers. The government wanted women for the war effort, and the poster…
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…
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 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…