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Women’s Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

A photo of a suffragette appealing to striking workers in Paterson, New Jersey in 1913.

A photo of a suffragette appealing to striking workers in Paterson, New Jersey in 1913.

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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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