Ladies Home Journal: Franklin D. Roosevelt Endorses Women's Suffrage, 1920

Roosevelt

Periodical

[Women's Suffrage] The Ladies Home Journal, October 1920. Loose page shows portrait of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt with their children, part of a political ad for James M. Cox's presidential run against Warren Harding who would defeat Cox in a landslide. Measures 16" x 11" inches. Roosevelt was Cox's vice presidential pick over a decade before going on to win his own presidential bid in 1932. The 1920 election was the first in which women could vote for president, and the Cox campaign emphasized both Cox and Roosevelt's support of women's rights, though Harding was favored by suffragists. Backside of page shows a fashion ad with women in slim twenties styles, four illustrations total, the text reading, "Fashion Decrees Short Skirts and Slender Lines for Winter." Top corner is torn. Otherwise very good condition. An incisive moment in presidential history when the women's vote was first being courted by both sides.

Item #17915

Price: $225.00