Primary Source
Henry B. Blackwell Essay: Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered
Henry B. Blackwell, "Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered," Woman's Suffrage Leaflet, Vol. 5, No. 2, March 1896
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Essay, Leaflets, Pamphlets
Relatively early demonstrations of prominent male support for suffrage was critically important to the movement. Henry B. Blackwell (1825-1909) was among the founders of the Republican Party and of the […] Read More
Archival Collection
Woman Suffrage Memorabilia: A Site Devoted to Such Artifacts as Buttons, Post Cards, Ribbons, Sheet Music, and Ceramics
Kenneth Florey. Womansuffragememorabilia.com.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Curated Photos/Ephemera, Leaflets, Pamphlets, Postcards, Posters, Web-based
This delightful website, curated by Kenneth Florey, includes a plethora of rich visual materials from the suffrage era. From the site: The primary purpose of this site is to provide a […] Read More
Secondary Source
The Women Who Drew for Suffrage
Alice Sheppard, Cartooning For Suffrage, University of New Mexico Press, 1994, 276 pages
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Cartoons, Sketches
In the popular imagination of those who lived in the twentieth century, political cartoons were drawn by men. But in Alice Sheppard’s “Cartooning For Suffrage,” readers see how dozens of […] Read More
Primary Source
Bertha Damaris Knobe in Collier’s: The Co-Citizens of California
The Spectacular Campaign by Which Four Hundred Thousand Women Won the Vote
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines
Bertha Damaris Knobe reports on the suffrage victory in California of 1911. The promotional campaign, she reports, included 8 x 10 foot posters on billboard, merchant displays of suffrage show […] Read More
Archival Collection
Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman’s Party Suffrage Campaign
Library of Congress, American Memory
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary
This essay from the Library of Congress explores how the National Woman’s Party, or NWP, used various techniques to raise public awareness of the woman’s suffrage campaign. Traditional lobbying and petitioning […] Read More
Secondary Source
Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement
Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr. Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement. American Graphic Press, 2005.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction, Commentary, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Essay
The following is a summary by Joni Hubred-Golden of the Michigan Women’s Forum of Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr.’s 2005 photographic book, Winning the Vote (three related essays by Cooney are also […] Read More