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Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection
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Held at: Bryn Mawr College [Contact Us]Bryn Mawr College Library, 101 N. Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr 19010
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Bryn Mawr College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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This collection includes a large collection of pins, ribbons and buttons, many owned by Jane Campbell and M. Carey Thomas. Campbell founded the Philadelphia County Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. She was one of the few prominent Catholic feminists at the time.Thomas was the second president of Bryn Mawr College from 1894-1922. Also included in the collection are postcards, both pro- and anti- suffrage, newspaper clipppings on the life of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and portrait photographs of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
The collection includes around seventy-five broadsides (including posters, advertisements, and persuasive arguments), pamphlets and leaflets published by various women's suffrage groups across the United States, many from Pennsylvania and California. The collection also contains three-dimensional material from various suffrage conventions and conferences.
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- Bryn Mawr College
- Finding Aid Author
- Sarah Sheplock, Marianne Hansen, Elizabeth Reilly
- Finding Aid Date
- 2013 Nov 14
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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The Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection is the physical property of the Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.
Collection Inventory
"Women In The Home" Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c. 1910-1920.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 1
"Votes for Women a Success" Minnie J. Reynolds, National Women Suffrage Association, 1913.
Box 1
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Item 2
"The Change in the Status of Women makes Votes for Women the Next Natural Step" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1914-1920.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 3
"Vote for the Amendment in 1915" , 1915.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 4
"Facts Worth Knowing" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, 1915.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 5
"Present Suffrage Status" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia , c.1915.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 6
"Results of Equal Suffrage" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1920.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 7
"The Virginia Woman" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1920.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 8
"Women Do Want the Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1917.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 9
"Equal Suffrage and the Negro Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1916-1920.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 10
"The Woman Citizen's Wheel of Progress" , January 25, 1919.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 11
"The Problems of Peace: Lectures Delivered at the Geneva Institute of International Relations" program outline, August 1926.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 12
"Justice Be Our Plea" Indiana Equal Suffrage Association, n.d.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 13
"Women in the Home" National Woman Suffrage, n.d.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 14
"Women Voters Against Wilson, He Opposes National Woman Suffrage" National Woman's Party, Washington D.C., 1916.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 15
"Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1920.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 16
"Votes for Women" The Women's Political Union, n.d.
Box 1
Folder 1
Item 17
"Measuring up results of Equal Suffrage in Colorado" California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco , c.1910-1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 1
"Justice to California Women" California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco, c.1910-1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 2
"A Allegory On Wimmen's Rights" excerpt from My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's by Marietta Holley, San Francisco , c.1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 3
"Justice Simple Justice/Women Vote" California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco, c.1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 4
"Opinions of Local Catholic Clergymen" California Equal Suffrage, San Francisco, c.1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 5
"Opinions of Eminent Catholic Clergymen" California Equal Suffrage, San Francisco, c.1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 6
"Report of Committee on Anti-Suffrage" , c.1914.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 7
Association for the Advancement of Women 10th Congress advertisement , 1882.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 8
"Facts Stronger Than Theory" National Women Suffrage Association , 1909.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 9
"Women in the Home" Susan Fitzgerald, National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company [2 copies] , c.1910-1920.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 10
"Pigs versus Boys" advertisement for The Woman's Journal, National American Woman Suffrage Association, c.1920-1916.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 11
Advertisement for Second America-Canadian Lecture Tour of Mrs. Pankhurst , 1911.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 12
"Resolutions Adopted by the Equal suffrage League of Virginia" 3rd annual convention in Lynchburg, Virginia , 1913.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 13
"Two Years of Equal Suffrage in California–-Its Results" National Women Suffrage Association , c.1913-1917.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 14
"Facts for the Delegates, Convention 1913" with National Association Budget, National Suffrage Association , 1913.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 15
"The Revolution in Women's Work Makes Votes for Women a Practical Necessity" Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Equal Suffrage League of Virginia [2 copies] , c.1914-1920.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 16
"Twenty Facts About Women Suffrage" N ational Women Suffrage Association, New York [2 copies], c. 1915.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 17
"Do Men Represent Women?" Anne O'Hagan, National Women Suffrage Association , c.1915-1917.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 18
"Why the Working Woman Needs The Vote" Mrs. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, National Women Suffrage Association, c.1915-1917.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 19
"The Women Are Tired of Waiting" Grace Vernon, c.1915-1920.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 20
"Answer to Anti-Suffragists" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1917-1918.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 21
"Federal Amendment" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia , c.1917-1918.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 22
With Regard to Women Contrasted With Laws Where Women Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia , c.1918-1920.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 23
"Human-rights Not in violation of States' Rights: An Appeal to the Men of Virginia" Mary Polland Clarke, Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1918-1920.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 24
"Sample Ballot" from Democratic Party for 1922 State election, featuring photographs of Daniel J. Mahoney, Susan W. Fitzgerald & William L. Keenan, 1922 .
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 25
"Topics for Women's Clubs & Men's Clubs" on social issues; photograph of Mrs. Pankhurst , n.d.
Box 1
Folder 2
Item 26
"Breaking Into the Human Race" essay reprinted from Hampton's Magazine by Rheta Childe Dorr; National American Woman Suffrage Assocation, New York , 1912.
Box 1
Folder 3
Item 1
"The Life of Lucy Stone" Alice Stone Blackwell , n.d.
Box 1
Folder 3
Item 2
"Equal Suffrage" address of Chief Justice Walter Clark (North Carolina Supreme Court) before the Equal Suffrage league, 1915.
Box 1
Folder 3
Item 3
"What Women Might Do With the Ballot; The Abolition of the White Slave Traffic" Clifford G. Roe, National Women Suffrage Association, New York, c.1915-1920.
Box 1
Folder 3
Item 4
"Suffrage Plays, to be had from the National American Woman Suffrage Association" catalogue, New York, n.d.
Box 1
Folder 3
Item 5
Woman Suffrage Bazaar and Exhibition, Horticultural Hall program [owned by M. Carey Thomas], February 1912.
Box 1
Folder 3
Item 6
The Press: "Dr. Shaw Talks of Suffrage Hopes: Leader predicts Several States Will Give Ballot to Women in 1914", December 1913.
Box 2
Folder 4
Item 1
Public Ledger: "Dr. [Anna] Shaw Willing To Go To Prison: Head of Suffragists in US Would Serve Jail Sentence Rather Than Pay Fine for Refusing to Pay Taxes", December 1913.
Box 2
Folder 4
Item 2
The College News: "B.M. Memorial to Anna Howard Shaw Backed by Leading Suffragists; May Become Official Memorial of National Suffrage Association" [photocopy], January 1920.
Box 2
Folder 4
Item 3
The New York Times: "The Uprising of the Women" May 1912.
Box 2
Folder 4
Item 4
"Where, Oh Where is my Wandering Wife Tonight?" Suffragette Series 1909
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Box 2
Folder 8
Item 1
"Election-Day" Suffragette Series 1909.
Box 2
Folder 8
Item 2
"Uncle Sam, Sufragee" Suffragette Series 1909.
Box 2
Folder 8
Item 3
"Pantelette Suffragette" Suffragette Series 1909.
Box 2
Folder 8
Item 4
Suffrage Valentine n.d.
Box 2
Folder 8
Item 5
"Votes for Women" n.d.
Box 2
Folder 8
Item 6
Birth Announcement: "Born One Suffragette" n.d.
Box 2
Folder 8
Item 7
Box of 20 postcards, "The 100th Anniversary (1848-1948) of Women's Rights, Seneca Falls, NY." 1948.
Box 2
Item 8
Envelope.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 1
Scene from Tableaux on Treasury steps.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 2
Miss Inez Milholland, Herald.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 3
Police Protection for Inaugural Procession, Fifteenth & Pennsylvania Ave.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 4
Part of the Law Contingent 1913 March 4.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 5
The Procession Passing Stand of N.W.S.A.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 6
Police Protection for Woman's Suffrage Procession, Fifteenth and Pennsylvania Avenue 1913 March 3.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 7
Photo of: Wend, Jones, Klatschken, Major, Wend, Muller, Muller, Craft, Dock & Muller.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 8
Contingent of Trained Nurses.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 9
Sweden, One of the Countries Where Women Vote.
Box 2
Folder 7
Item 10
Portrait photograph: Elizabeth Cady Stanton n.d.
Box 2
Folder 6
Item 1
Portrait photograph: Susan B. Anthony n.d.
Box 2
Folder 6
Item 2
Portrait photograph: Unidentified n.d.
Box 2
Folder 6
Item 3
Manuscript listing of membership numbers and classifications for the New York State Women's Suffrage Association n.d.
Box 2
Folder 5
Item 1
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, "Philadelphia merchants who are advertising in The Suffragist" n.d.
Box 2
Folder 5
Item 2
(NAWSA) to "Fellow Citizen" 1913 March.
Box 2
Folder 5
Item 3
Three pledge forms headed "I Am Opposed to Women's Suffrage" c.1915-1920.
Box 2
Folder 5
Item 4
Yellow Ribbon "43d ANNUAL CONVENTION/PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION/ PHILADELPHIA NOV. 23-25, 1911".
Box 1
Box 1
Item 1
Yellow Ribbon "DELEGATE 44TH ANNUAL CONVENTION/ PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION/ PHILADELPHIA NOV. 26 & 27, 1912" .
Box 1
Box 1
Item 2
Blue and white with gold lettering ribbon"PENNSYLVANIA" .
Box 1
Box 1
Item 3
White button with blue "10"; yellow ribbon with white lettering "PENNSYLVANIA".
Box 1
Box 1
Item 4
Ribbon "WAR SERVICE HIST. SOC. PENNA./ RECEPTION COMMITTEE" .
Box 1
Box 2
Item 5
Ribbon "WAR SERVICE HIST. SOC. PENNA./ ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE".
Box 1
Box 2
Item 6
Yellow Ribbon "DELEGATE, N.A.W.S.A.".
Box 1
Box 2
Item 7
Ribbon, drawn image of clover with "GERMANAPLITANVM 1641-51 GILLVM".
Box 1
Box 2
Item 8
Nameplate Pin "WIN THE WAR FOR PERMANENT PEACE/PHILADELPHIA/ LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE/ MAY 16-17 1918" with "PENNSYLVANIA" ribbon.
Box 2
Box 3
Item 9
Brown button "VOTES FOR WOMEN"; yellow ribbon "DELEGATE".
Box 2
Box 3
Item 10
Pin "M. Carey Thomas, Nat'l Col. E. S. League"; yellow ribbon "NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION/ DELEGATE/ NASHVILLE 1914".
Box 2
Box 4
Item 11
Pin "Miss M. Carey Thomas/College League"; yellow ribbon "SUFFRAGE CONVENTION/ DELEGATE/ ATLANTIC CITY 1916" .
Box 2
Box 4
Item 12
Medallion: "N.A.W.S.A. 44TH ANNUAL CONVENTION PHILA 1912" .
Box 2
Box 5
Item 13
Medallion same as above; yellow ribbon, "NATIONAL COLLEGE EQ. SUFFRAGE ASSN".
Box 2
Box 5
Item 14
White ribbon with gold lettering "AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE/ DELEGATE" .
Box 2
Box 5
Item 15
Blue bow, white ribbon with red lettering "DELEGATE/ 1898/ S.F.P.W.".
Box 2
Box 6
Item 16
American flag bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "1901 DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W.".
Box 2
Box 6
Item 17
White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1902".
Box 2
Box 6
Item 18
White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "S.F.P.W./ DELEGATE/ 1903".
Box 2
Box 6
Item 19
White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1905".
Box 2
Box 6
Item 20
White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1906".
Box 2
Bin 6
Item 21
White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1907".
Box 2
Box 6
Item 22
Pin- photograph of Lucretia Mott "60th ANNIVERSARY 1848-1908/ANNUAL CONVENTION OF STATE AND NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASS'N OCT. 13-21, 1908 BUFFALO, N.Y."; button- photograph of unidentified.
Box 3
Box 7
Item 23
"DELEGATE" pin; yellow ribbon, "N.A.W.S.A. CHICAGO 1907".
Box 3
Box 7
Item 24
Yellow fabric rose with ribbon "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Bin 3
Box 8
Item 25
Yellow and Red flower; ribbon "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Box 3
Box 8
Item 26
Green Ribbon.
Box 3
Box 8
Item 27
Yellow bow and blue ribbon "A.A.S.P.I.M. COMMITTEE" .
Box 3
Box 8
Item 28
Blue Ribbon "ALLIANCE" .
Box 3
Box 9
Frame 29
Greenish Ribbon "C. F. W. C./BOSTON, JUNE 22-30 1908".
Box 3
Box 9
Item 30
Blue and white ribbon "COMMITTEE".
Box 3
Box 10
Item 31
White fabric button; yellow ribbon "NEW CENTURY GUILD".
Box 3
Box 11
Item 32
Yellow fabric button; blue ribbon "COMMITTEE".
Box 3
Box 10
Item 33
"I.C.W." Medallion.
Box 3
Box 11
Item 34
White button "222".
Box 3
Box 11
Item 35
Black button "VOTES FORWOMEN".
Box 3
Box 11
Item 36
Red flower with green leaves Pin "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE".
Box 3
Box 11
Item 37
White button "SWAT THE FRANCHISE".
Box 4
Box 12
Item 38
Blue button "NO" .
Box 4
Box 12
Item 39
Pink button "VOTE NO ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE".
Box 4
Box 12
Item 40
Pink and gray ribbons pinned together.
Box 4
Box 13
Item 41
Pink and gray ribbon, knotted.
Box 4
Box 13
Item 32
Pink and gray ribbons pinned together.
Box 4
Box 13
Item 33
Yellow and blue ribbon, in bow.
Box 4
Box 14
Item 34
Yellow and blue tied in bow.
Box 4
Box 14
Item 35
Yellow and blue Ribbon.
Box 4
Box 14
Item 36
Yellow Ribbon tied in bow.
Box 4
Box 15
Item 37
Yellow Ribbon, in bow.
Box 4
Box 15
Item 38
Yellow Ribbon, in bow.
Box 4
Box 15
Item 39
Yellow Ribbon, in bow.
Box 4
Box 15
Item 40
Yellow and white ribbons.
Box 4
Box 16
Item 41
Yellow and white ribbon, in bow.
Box 4
Box 16
Item 42
Grayish brown ribbon, tied.
Box 4
Box 17
Item 43
American flag ribbon, in bow.
Box 4
Box 17
Item 44
"BRYN MAWR" flag pin "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Box 4
Box 18
Item 45
"PENNSYLVANIA" flag pin .
Box 4
Box 18
Item 46
Yellow "DELEGATE" ribbon, white "42ND CONVENTION, N.A.W.S.A./ WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 14-19, 1910.
Box 4
Box 19
Item 47
Pin "VOTES FOR WOMEN"; white ribbon "42ND CONVENTION, N.A.W.S.A./ WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 14-19, 1910" .
Box 4
Box 19
Item 48
Button "PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS/ 1848-1923/ SEVENTY-FIFTH- ANNIVERSARY" yellow and white ribbons attached.
Box 4
Box 20
Item 49
Button "EASTERN ART AND MANUAL TRAINING TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION CONVENTION/ PHILADELPHIA, MAY 11-13, 1911" Pin "DELEGATE", blue and yellow ribbon.
Box 4
Box 20
Item 50
Paper cup: "Votes for Women 1915" .
Box 2
Folder 9
Item 1
Hand-held fan: "Votes for Women Pennsylvania 1915" .
Box 2
Item 2
Pamphlet in the shape of pocket watch c.1914.
Box 2
Folder 9
Item 3
Three leaves from a suffrage-themed calendar c.1912.
Box 2
Folder 9
Item 4