Secondary Source

Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema, a Documentary Film

Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema. Director: Kay Sloan. Women Make Movies, 2003.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Documentary Film, Video

This 35-minute documentary takes the viewer back to a time and place when film was silent—and when movie makers used silent film to support and oppose the women’s suffrage movement. […] Read More

Archival Collection

New York Times Letters: Should Women Have the Vote in New York State?

"Should Women Have the Vote in New York State?" New York Times. February 14, 1915. Pp. 83-88.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Newspapers

In 1915, the usually anti-suffrage New York Times produced a six-page supplement for its readers, bannered at the top of every page with the words: “Should Women Have the Vote in […] Read More

Primary Source

Every Woman’s Problem, a Silent Film Imagining the First Woman Governor

Mothers of Men/Every Woman's Problem. Director: Willis Robards. Performers: Dorothy Davenport, Willis Robards, Maclyn King. Plymouth Pictures, 1917.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Film, Video

Suffragists used every type of media to hammer home their message: magazine and newspaper articles, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, and more. But not all these polemics included words. Film—at that point […] Read More

Secondary Source

Iron Jawed Angels, a Film About Suffragist Alice Paul

Iron Jawed Angels. Director: Katja von Garnier, Performers: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston. HBO, 2004.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Film, Television, Video

Iron Jawed Angels is a made-for-TV historical drama that tells the story of how a key leader in the US suffrage movement, Alice Paul (played by Hilary Swank), took the […] Read More

Primary Source

Pro-Suffrage Illustration: The Awakening, Puck 1915

Henry Mayer. "The Awakening." Puck, February 20, 1915.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Cartoons, Illustration

Henry “Hy” Mayer’s pro-suffrage illustration first appeared as a two-page spread in Puck magazine’s suffrage issue, published February 20, 1915. The German-born Mayer was Puck’s head cartoonist at the time. This description is an […] Read More

Primary Source

The Puck Magazine Suffrage Issue

Puck magazine, Vol. 77, No. 1981, February 20, 1915.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Cartoons, Illustration, Magazines

The satirical magazine Puck was one of the most influential American publications of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Making liberal use of cartoons and drawings, Puck gave its […] Read More