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
Archival Collection
Listen to a 101-year-old Clarion Call for Women’s Suffrage Preserved in Shellac
Gertrude Foster Brown, New York Public Records Archives & Preservation via Andy Lanset, WNYC, May 8, 2016
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Radio/Audio
At this link, New York public radio station WNYC‘s Andy Lanset elucidates on remarks recorded for Pathé by Gertrude Foster Brown, one of the paragon’s of the New York suffrage […] 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
Primary Source
Votes for Women, a 1912 Suffrage Map of the United States
National American Woman Suffrage Association. “Votes for Women.” Digital Public Library of America (Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library).
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Leaflets, Pamphlets, Posters
This map from the National American Woman Suffrage Association shows the status of women’s suffrage in the US in 1912, including the date when suffrage was granted in each state. 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