Secondary Source

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women’s City Club of New York

Elisabeth Israels Perry. "Women’s City Club of New York," in The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, eds. Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman, and Henry R. Beasley. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2001. (Pp. 575-576.)

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Encyclopedia Entry

In this encyclopedia entry, historian Elisabeth Israels Perry summarizes what the Women’s City Club of New York was and how it influenced the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. The suffrage movement […] Read More

Secondary Source

Documentary: California Women Win the Vote!

California Women Win the Vote! Directors: Martha Wheelock, Marita Simpson. Performers: Melanie Jones, Maggie McCollester, Anne Perrah, et al. Ishtar Films, 2011.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Documentary Film

This short documentary, narrated by Bonnie Franklin, tells the history of the suffragist political campaign that resulted in California becoming the first US state to grant women the right to […] Read More

Primary Source

Anti-Suffrage Book: Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism; The Terrible Triplets, Connected by the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed From the Same Nursing Bottle

B.V. Hubbard. Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism: The Terrible Triplets, Connected by the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed From the Same Nursing Bottle. Chicago: American Publishing Company, 1915.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction, Commentary, Essay, Posters

Part of the NAWSA Collection of the Library of Congress, this ponderously titled book comprises about 300 pages of anti-suffrage invective. As the Library of Congress’ description puts it, “[t]his […] Read More

Primary Source

How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette

Him; Illustrations by May Wilson Preston. How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette. New York: George H. Doran Company [c1915].

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction

This ironic, self-deprecating parody of a how-to guide is written from the perspective of an anonymous male suffragist—referred to only as “Him”—who is married to a woman suffragist. Humorously long-suffering […] Read More

Archival Collection

Library of Congress National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection

Library of Congress: National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Curated Photos/Ephemera, Letters, Newspapers, Pamphlets, Posters

This extensive digitized collection from the Library of Congress contains hundreds of suffrage-era resources related to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a prominent American suffrage organization whose founders included Susan […] Read More

Primary Source

Film: Votes for Women (1912)

Votes for Women. Director: Hal Reid. Performers: Edgena De Lespine, Gertrude Robinson, Sue Balfour, et. al. Reliance Film Company, 1912.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Film

This seminal short drama—which silent-film historian Kevin Brownlow has called “the first important suffrage film”—was written and produced in cooperation with prominent suffragists, several of whom also appeared in cameo […] Read More