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

The Root: How Racism Tainted Women’s Suffrage

Monee Fields-White, The Root via NPR, March 25, 2011

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Essay, Radio/Audio, Web-based

This commentary by Monee Fields-White for The Root, republished by NPR on March 25, 2011 explores the complicated relationship between racism and women’s rights during the late 19th century. Fields-White focuses on […] 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

Secondary Source

Making a Spectacle of Suffrage: The National Woman Suffrage Pageant, 1913

Sarah J. Moore, Journal of American Culture 20, no. 1 (Spring 1997)

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Pageants and Parades

A discussion of the first national woman’s suffrage pageant of 1913, which was sponsored by NAWSA, the National American Woman Suffrage Association. An elaborate combination of theatricality, allegory, decorative effect, […] Read More