Women’s Suffrage and Social Life in Early Twentieth-Century American Photography, 1911–1923

California

Photograph

[Suffrage] [Early Photography] Original silver gelatin photographs capturing women’s suffrage, social gatherings, education, and everyday life during the Suffragette era to the 1920s. This archive of 22 photos depict groups of women in various settings, including suffrage parades, outdoor excursions, college events, and community celebrations. Archive of snapshot and postcard photographs, circa 1911–1923, documenting women's suffrage activity alongside social, educational, and everyday life in the United States. One photograph shows a parade participant holding a banner reading "Women Vote in California," a state that granted women the vote in 1911; other images cover school-affiliated gatherings, travel, and domestic life.
The archive comprises 22 silver gelatin photographs and real photo postcards, ranging from approximately 1 x 2 inches to 2.5 x 4 inches, several mounted on cardstock album leaves with images on both sides. Scenes include a suffrage parade with the banner text clearly visible; a parade float decorated with streamers and accompanied by women on horseback, identified as part of a 1915 suffrage event in Quincy, Massachusetts; and a group of women in elaborate hats holding pennants marked "North Dixon High," suggesting a school or alumni gathering. Other images show women posed outdoors in residential and rural settings, standing near early automobiles and homes, holding animals, and at leisure. One photograph shows an African American woman alongside white women. Several photographs bear handwritten dates or brief captions, including "1911" and "1923."
The grouping spans organized suffrage activism through the early years following ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, pairing political demonstration imagery with informal social scenes. Occasional mounting remnants and toning; overall in very good condition.

Item #21455

Price: $585.00