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

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 in New York signing a petition for women in New York to receive suffrage.

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 Nineteenth Amendment. This shows that women knew how to use the laws to get what they wanted, however as they were not citizens at the time their signatures on the petition may not have swayed Congressmen's minds.

Benjamin West Clinedinst

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Library of Congress

1894

Digitization of a page of a weekly newspaper