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Women’s Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
A 1912 postcard from a suffragette discussing her work on state suffrage campaigns.

A 1912 postcard from a suffragette discussing her work on state suffrage campaigns.

Transcription:

619 7 NW Washington DC. Dec. 22 '12. Dear Friend - I congratulate you in winning success in Arizona so easily. I worked 6 mos in the campaigns of Oregon, Kansas & Wis [[object Object]]. My home is Portland, Ore. but I am at above address for the season. Secy of the Federal Women's Equality Assn. I am working for a Bill to enable women in all the states to vote for members of the H of R [[object Object]]. Have been getting Hon. Vice Pres from the States where women vote & your member & senator Ashurst responded most heartily. Their names will be on our letter-heads. I wish you would join me soon & help us. The fee is $1.00 a year. I saw Laura Gregg at the Convention in Philadelphia with best wishes Sincerely yours, Clara Bewick Colby.

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Colby, Clara Dorothy Bewick, “1912 Suffrage postcard,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/62a52d372aff12514c83c96cc6a7fa9b.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of the Postal History Foundation via Mountain West Digital Library.

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Item 8 of 15 in the Primary Source Set Women’s Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

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“Votes for women,” a 1912 suffrage map showing the status of women’s suffrage in each state.
An anti-suffrage lithograph illustration. It reads: “The home or street corner for woman? Vote no on woman suffrage.”
An anti-suffrage postcard from a campaign to reach government officials, 1916.
A 1914 poster for the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. It reads, “Men! Give women votes to protect the children!”
A flyer listing reasons for a constitutional amendment, printed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 1918.
The House of Representatives’ joint resolution on the Nineteenth Amendment.
A 1915 postcard of Kewpie dolls titled “Votes for Women: The Spirit of ’76.”
A 1912 postcard from a suffragette discussing her work on state suffrage campaigns.
A postcard of nurses marching in a suffrage parade, 1913.
A photo of a suffragette appealing to striking workers in Paterson, New Jersey in 1913.
A card “to a suffragette valentine.”
Part of a set of banners ridiculing objections to women’s suffrage; this one says, “It would make women less attractive to men.”
A photograph of a suffrage parade, 1913.
A National Woman’s Party woman suffrage banner, 1914-1917.
A photo portrait of Ida B. Wells, a social reformer who campaigned for the inclusion of black women in the national suffrage movement.

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