Primary Source
Pro-Suffrage Illustration: The Mascot, 1915
Rolf Armstrong. "The Mascot." Puck: February 20, 1915.
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Cartoons, Illustration, Magazines
This Puck magazine cover by Rolf Armstrong, later one of the most famous American pin-up artists, depicts a woman suffragist alongside the publication’s namesake mascot, Puck, who holds a pencil. Both […] Read More
Secondary Source
“Suffrage Newspapers,” in Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism, 2nd ed.
"Suffrage Newspapers," in Maurine H. Beasley and Sheila J. Gibbons, eds. Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism. State College: Strata, 2003.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper
Chapter Six, titled “Suffrage Newspapers,” gives a concise overview of two contrasting suffrage newspapers, The Revolution, run by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the more moderate Woman’s […] Read More
Secondary Source
“A New Generation,” in Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence
Maurine H. Beasley. Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012. (pp. 25-56).
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter
Chapter Two of Women of the Washington Press examines the impact of the suffrage movement on women journalists in Washington, DC in the 1920s. It calls the suffrage campaign “a godsend” to women […] Read More
Secondary Source
American Woman Suffrage Postcards: A Study and Catalog
Kenneth Florey. American Woman Suffrage Postcards: A Study and Catalog. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction, Cartoons, Curated Photos/Ephemera, Illustration, Postcards
Google books provides significant excerpts from this book, which offers a fascinating look at suffrage-themed postcards from the era. An abstract: American women’s suffrage activists were fascinated with suffrage themed postcards. […] Read More
Primary Source
Nellie Bly with the Female Suffragists – Washington DC Convention of 1896
The New York World, 26 January 1896, p. 4; January 27, 1896, p. 10; February 2, 1896 p. 10;
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Newspapers, Sketches
Bly covered the 1896 suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., and in typical fashion, had her own take on the proceedings, including enough “Fashion Don’t” critique for its to be highlighted […] Read More
Secondary Source
Destructive Women and Little Men: Masculinity, the New Woman, and Power in 1910s Popular Media.
Carolyn Kitch, Journal of Magazine & New Media Research 1, no. 1 (Spring 1999)
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary
During the 1910s, the final decade of the suffrage drive, women’s social, economic, and professional opportunities seemed to broaden dramatically at the same time that political leaders and psychologists decried […] Read More