ALGEO, Sara. "The Story of a Sub-Pioneer." Providence: Stone & Farnham Co., 1925. First Edition inscribed in 1938 by the author to another suffragist regarding their work on the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Original green covers with no dust jacket, and minor fading to the edges of cover and spine.....
Representation of the People Act, 1918. [8 Geo. 5. Ch. 64] Printed by Percy Lunch, Humphries & Co. Ltd. for Normal Gibb Scorgie, C.V.O., C.B.E., Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office and King’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. First edition. 161 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 6 in.....
Agnes Edith Metcalfe. Woman's Effort: A Chronicle of British Women's Fifty Years' Struggle for Citizenship (1865-1914). Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1917. Original Cloth. 6 x 8 in. Frontispiece cartoon reprinted from Punch Magazine. Cartoon illustratrations reproduced throughout. Details the decades-long struggle that British women fought for the full rights of citizenship.....
(Women). Photo Album: Three Sisters. Midwest, 1918-1927. Oblong octavo. Covers are brown cloth boards held by ties. Oblong octavo, 11” x 7” inches. Title “Photographs” in gilt. 230 snapshots in a variety of sizes, most 3.5” x 4.5” inches, but also 2.25” x 3.5”, 1.5” x 2.25”, and 7” x......
DICKINSON, Anna. Autograph Quotation Signed, 1873. 1 page. Quotation In her hand in purple ink, Dickinson pens striking quotation about the importance of equality and freedom: "Above all things, Liberty." Writing is faded but still legible, and it does not diminish the power of Dickinson's sentiment. Accompanied by a vintage.....
Collection of England's earliest suffrage leader, Anne Knight, who in 1847 became the first to publish a call for British women's suffrage. An ardent abolitionist, Knight was outraged when the she and other female delegates including Lucretia Mott were banned from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The cornerstone of.....
Mary Gray Peck. The Woman Citizen’s Library: A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the Larger Citizenship. Chicago, 1914. 31 pages. Volume 7, Part II: “Woman Suffrage.” Rare typescript of historic book edited by progressive Christian theologian Shailer Mathews. This typescript consists of Part II of Volume 7, written.....
Satirical women’s rights cartoon. C.J. Taylor [Illustrator]. 1894. Kepler & Schwarzmann, Inc. 4 sheets, each 14 in x 10 in. Color illustration titled “Independence Day of the Future” showing three women, including one in a military hat and coat with bloomer pants, ringing a bell labeled “Equal Rights”. A celebratory.....
Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Committee. The Case Against Woman Suffrage: The Most Important Question on the Ballot at the State Election, November 2, 1915. Boston: Anchor Linotype Printing, Co., 1915. In self wrappers, 48 pages. Massachusetts was the home state to many prominent activists in the woman suffrage movement, such as Lucy.....
[Woman Suffrage] [Anti-Suffrage] US House of Representatives. "Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women." 48th Congress, 1st Session. Report No. 1330. April 24, 1884. First edition. 8 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 x 6 in. “We believe that every citizen in the United States in made more intelligent, more learned.....
[Women's Suffrage] Eva Humphreys and Paul Underwood. Archive of 92 autograph and typed letters signed, ranging in date from 1911-1919. Contains 22 Autograph Letters Signed from Eva comprised of 169 handwritten pages with content on suffrage, education, marriage equality, and Red Cross volunteering. Also includes 69 ALS and TLS from.....
An attractive collection of 12 rare souvenir postcards supporting women's suffrage. Featuring the postcard artwork of famed commercial artists, the archive is both visually enthralling and historically fascinating; demonstrating the attempts of proponents of the movement to define and popularize a relatable, sympathetic image of the suffragette. The golden age.....
Belva Lockwood. The first woman to appear on a US Presidential ballot. Autograph letter signed by Belva Lockwood, to Mark Bennitt, publicity director of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. April 30, 1903. 1 page, 7 x 5 ¾ in. In black ink, Lockwood writes: “Wash. D.C. Apr. 30. 1903.....
Newspaper advertisement with a large profile portrait of Belva Lockwood, for Peruna Medicine Co., 1900. Advertisement measures: 8.25 x 4.5 in. Lockwood was the first woman to run for U.S. President in 1884 and 1888 as part of the National Equal Rights Party. In the advertisement, she is described as.....
Early suffrage leaders Caroline Biggs and Agnes Garrett Autograph letter signed, 1873 on" National Society for Women’s Suffrage" letterhead. 1 page letter, 10.25 x 8.25 in. Good condition. 2 vertical and 3 horizontal fold lines. Light soiling and small losses around edges. In this letter, leaders Caroline Biggs and Agnes.....
National Woman’s Party. Broadside “Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage,” 1916. This broadside, distributed by the National Woman’s Party, encouraged women in states that had already passed suffrage legislation to vote against the 1916 reelection of President Woodrow Wilson, who opposed federal women’s suffrage. The broadside.....
SUFFRAGE BROADSIDE. 1917. Rare surviving suffrage broadside from 1917, announcing famed Canadian suffrage leader Flora MacDonald Dennison's speech at the Common Council Chamber. Dennison, a successful entrepreneur who ran a dressmaking shop and contributed a regular column to Toronto newspapers, helped Canadian women achieve national suffrage only 2 years later.....
VILLIERS, Brougham, ed. With contributions by Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, Rosalind Nash, Eva Gore-Booth, et. al. "The Case for Woman Suffrage," London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917. Later edition. In original green publisher's cover with gilt title on spine. Tearing to crown, tape repair to spine. Binding somewhat loose. Previous owner's.....
Perry, Adele D. Typed Letter Signed. Newark, N.J.: September 2nd, 1915. Letter. Signed in Full by Adele Perry. 8 1/2 x 11 ''; single sheet; typed on the elaborate cream stationary of the Women's Political Union of New Jersey, creased once horizontally and twice vertically, two punch holes along the.....
Vintage “Panko or Votes for Woman: The Great Card Game Suffragists v. Anti-Suffragists”. Pictures by E. T. Reed. Published by Peter Gurney, Ltd. London. 1909. Named after Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the WSPU British suffrage organization, these cards pits opponents and supporters of suffrage against each other in a......
CATT, Carrie Chapman. Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917. 100 pages. Very rare first edition. Dark blue boards with bright gilt lettering to covers. No copies on OCLC institutional holdings. Suffrage leader who campaigned for the 19th Amendment to the United.....
Leader in women's rights and the founder of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, which continues to work on behalf or women's and girls' human rights today. Autograph Quotation signed in full by Catt: "Women vote on equal terms / with men in 26 countries / of the world. / Carrie.....
Mrs. Raymond [Gertrude Foster] Brown. Your Vote and How to Use It. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. First edition. Book on women’s new role in the democratic process and outline of governmental roles, with forward from noted suffrage activist Carrie Chapman Catt. Very rare with no.....
American reformer; best known for her work on behalf of woman suffrage. Autograph Quotation Signed. 1 page. March 16, 1945. N.p. Catt writes in her hand a moving quote, "Despite crime, war and bloodshed, the human race is marching toward a better world." She signs in full “Carrie Chapman Catt”. Already.....
Carrie Chapman Catt. Leader in women's rights, protégé of Susan B. Anthony, and founder of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), which continues today to advocate on behalf of women's and girls' rights worldwide. 1 page Autograph Letter Signed on International Woman Suffrage Alliance letterhead circa 1906. Catt founded the.....