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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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
M88
Repository:
Bryn Mawr College
Extent:
6 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library
Date:
1890-1920 (inclusive)
Creator:
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935
Form:
ephemera (general object genre)
Abstract:
The Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection includes a variety of ephemera related to the fight for women's suffrage dating from c. 1910 until the early 1920s.

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.

For additional materials, see Carrie Chapman Catt papers and albums.

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Publisher
Bryn Mawr College
Finding Aid Author
Sarah Sheplock, Marianne Hansen, Elizabeth Reilly
Finding Aid Date
2013 Nov 14
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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

Archival Resource Key. "Women In The Home" Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c. 1910-1920.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. "Votes for Women a Success" Minnie J. Reynolds, National Women Suffrage Association, 1913.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "Vote for the Amendment in 1915" , 1915.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 4
Archival Resource Key. "Facts Worth Knowing" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, 1915.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 5
Archival Resource Key. "Present Suffrage Status" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia , c.1915.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 6
Archival Resource Key. "Results of Equal Suffrage" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1920.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 7
Archival Resource Key. "The Virginia Woman" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1920.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 8
Archival Resource Key. "Women Do Want the Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1917.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 9
Archival Resource Key. "Equal Suffrage and the Negro Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1916-1920.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 10
Archival Resource Key. "The Woman Citizen's Wheel of Progress" , January 25, 1919.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 11
Archival Resource Key. "The Problems of Peace: Lectures Delivered at the Geneva Institute of International Relations" program outline, August 1926.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 12
Archival Resource Key. "Justice Be Our Plea" Indiana Equal Suffrage Association, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 13
Archival Resource Key. "Women in the Home" National Woman Suffrage, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 14
Archival Resource Key. "Women Voters Against Wilson, He Opposes National Woman Suffrage" National Woman's Party, Washington D.C., 1916.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 15
Archival Resource Key. "Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1915-1920.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 16
Archival Resource Key. "Votes for Women" The Women's Political Union, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 1 Item 17

Archival Resource Key. "Measuring up results of Equal Suffrage in Colorado" California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco , c.1910-1911.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. "Justice to California Women" California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco, c.1910-1911.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "Justice Simple Justice/Women Vote" California Equal Suffrage Association, San Francisco, c.1911.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 4
Archival Resource Key. "Opinions of Local Catholic Clergymen" California Equal Suffrage, San Francisco, c.1911.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 5
Archival Resource Key. "Opinions of Eminent Catholic Clergymen" California Equal Suffrage, San Francisco, c.1911.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 6
Archival Resource Key. "Report of Committee on Anti-Suffrage" , c.1914.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 7
Archival Resource Key. Association for the Advancement of Women 10th Congress advertisement , 1882.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 8
Archival Resource Key. "Facts Stronger Than Theory" National Women Suffrage Association , 1909.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 9
Archival Resource Key. "Women in the Home" Susan Fitzgerald, National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company [2 copies] , c.1910-1920.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 10
Archival Resource Key. "Pigs versus Boys" advertisement for The Woman's Journal, National American Woman Suffrage Association, c.1920-1916.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 11
Archival Resource Key. Advertisement for Second America-Canadian Lecture Tour of Mrs. Pankhurst , 1911.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 12
Archival Resource Key. "Resolutions Adopted by the Equal suffrage League of Virginia" 3rd annual convention in Lynchburg, Virginia , 1913.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 13
Archival Resource Key. "Two Years of Equal Suffrage in California–-Its Results" National Women Suffrage Association , c.1913-1917.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 14
Archival Resource Key. "Facts for the Delegates, Convention 1913" with National Association Budget, National Suffrage Association , 1913.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 15
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "Twenty Facts About Women Suffrage" N ational Women Suffrage Association, New York [2 copies], c. 1915.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 17
Archival Resource Key. "Do Men Represent Women?" Anne O'Hagan, National Women Suffrage Association , c.1915-1917.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 18
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "The Women Are Tired of Waiting" Grace Vernon, c.1915-1920.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 20
Archival Resource Key. "Answer to Anti-Suffragists" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, c.1917-1918.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 21
Archival Resource Key. "Federal Amendment" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia , c.1917-1918.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 22
Archival Resource Key. With Regard to Women Contrasted With Laws Where Women Vote" Equal Suffrage League of Virginia , c.1918-1920.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 23
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "Topics for Women's Clubs & Men's Clubs" on social issues; photograph of Mrs. Pankhurst , n.d.
Box 1 Folder 2 Item 26

Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "The Life of Lucy Stone" Alice Stone Blackwell , n.d.
Box 1 Folder 3 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. "Equal Suffrage" address of Chief Justice Walter Clark (North Carolina Supreme Court) before the Equal Suffrage league, 1915.
Box 1 Folder 3 Item 3
Archival Resource Key. "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
Archival Resource Key. "Suffrage Plays, to be had from the National American Woman Suffrage Association" catalogue, New York, n.d.
Box 1 Folder 3 Item 5
Archival Resource Key. Woman Suffrage Bazaar and Exhibition, Horticultural Hall program [owned by M. Carey Thomas], February 1912.
Box 1 Folder 3 Item 6

Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. The New York Times: "The Uprising of the Women" May 1912.
Box 2 Folder 4 Item 4

Archival Resource Key. "Where, Oh Where is my Wandering Wife Tonight?" Suffragette Series 1909 .
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. "Election-Day" Suffragette Series 1909.
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. "Uncle Sam, Sufragee" Suffragette Series 1909.
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 3
Archival Resource Key. "Pantelette Suffragette" Suffragette Series 1909.
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 4
Archival Resource Key. Suffrage Valentine n.d.
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 5
Archival Resource Key. "Votes for Women" n.d.
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 6
Archival Resource Key. Birth Announcement: "Born One Suffragette" n.d.
Box 2 Folder 8 Item 7
Archival Resource Key. Box of 20 postcards, "The 100th Anniversary (1848-1948) of Women's Rights, Seneca Falls, NY." 1948.
Box 2 Item 8
Archival Resource Key. Envelope.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. Scene from Tableaux on Treasury steps.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. Miss Inez Milholland, Herald.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 3
Archival Resource Key. Police Protection for Inaugural Procession, Fifteenth & Pennsylvania Ave.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 4
Archival Resource Key. Part of the Law Contingent 1913 March 4.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 5
Archival Resource Key. The Procession Passing Stand of N.W.S.A.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 6
Archival Resource Key. Police Protection for Woman's Suffrage Procession, Fifteenth and Pennsylvania Avenue 1913 March 3.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 7
Archival Resource Key. Photo of: Wend, Jones, Klatschken, Major, Wend, Muller, Muller, Craft, Dock & Muller.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 8
Archival Resource Key. Contingent of Trained Nurses.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 9
Archival Resource Key. Sweden, One of the Countries Where Women Vote.
Box 2 Folder 7 Item 10

Archival Resource Key. Portrait photograph: Elizabeth Cady Stanton n.d.
Box 2 Folder 6 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. Portrait photograph: Susan B. Anthony n.d.
Box 2 Folder 6 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. Portrait photograph: Unidentified n.d.
Box 2 Folder 6 Item 3

Archival Resource Key. Manuscript listing of membership numbers and classifications for the New York State Women's Suffrage Association n.d.
Box 2 Folder 5 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, "Philadelphia merchants who are advertising in The Suffragist" n.d.
Box 2 Folder 5 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. (NAWSA) to "Fellow Citizen" 1913 March.
Box 2 Folder 5 Item 3
Archival Resource Key. Three pledge forms headed "I Am Opposed to Women's Suffrage" c.1915-1920.
Box 2 Folder 5 Item 4

Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon "43d ANNUAL CONVENTION/PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION/ PHILADELPHIA NOV. 23-25, 1911".
Box 1 Box 1 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon "DELEGATE 44TH ANNUAL CONVENTION/ PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION/ PHILADELPHIA NOV. 26 & 27, 1912" .
Box 1 Box 1 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. Blue and white with gold lettering ribbon"PENNSYLVANIA" .
Box 1 Box 1 Item 3
Archival Resource Key. White button with blue "10"; yellow ribbon with white lettering "PENNSYLVANIA".
Box 1 Box 1 Item 4
Archival Resource Key. Ribbon "WAR SERVICE HIST. SOC. PENNA./ RECEPTION COMMITTEE" .
Box 1 Box 2 Item 5
Archival Resource Key. Ribbon "WAR SERVICE HIST. SOC. PENNA./ ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE".
Box 1 Box 2 Item 6
Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon "DELEGATE, N.A.W.S.A.".
Box 1 Box 2 Item 7
Archival Resource Key. Ribbon, drawn image of clover with "GERMANAPLITANVM 1641-51 GILLVM".
Box 1 Box 2 Item 8
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. Brown button "VOTES FOR WOMEN"; yellow ribbon "DELEGATE".
Box 2 Box 3 Item 10
Archival Resource Key. Pin "M. Carey Thomas, Nat'l Col. E. S. League"; yellow ribbon "NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION/ DELEGATE/ NASHVILLE 1914".
Box 2 Box 4 Item 11
Archival Resource Key. Pin "Miss M. Carey Thomas/College League"; yellow ribbon "SUFFRAGE CONVENTION/ DELEGATE/ ATLANTIC CITY 1916" .
Box 2 Box 4 Item 12
Archival Resource Key. Medallion: "N.A.W.S.A. 44TH ANNUAL CONVENTION PHILA 1912" .
Box 2 Box 5 Item 13
Archival Resource Key. Medallion same as above; yellow ribbon, "NATIONAL COLLEGE EQ. SUFFRAGE ASSN".
Box 2 Box 5 Item 14
Archival Resource Key. White ribbon with gold lettering "AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE/ DELEGATE" .
Box 2 Box 5 Item 15
Archival Resource Key. Blue bow, white ribbon with red lettering "DELEGATE/ 1898/ S.F.P.W.".
Box 2 Box 6 Item 16
Archival Resource Key. American flag bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "1901 DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W.".
Box 2 Box 6 Item 17
Archival Resource Key. White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1902".
Box 2 Box 6 Item 18
Archival Resource Key. White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "S.F.P.W./ DELEGATE/ 1903".
Box 2 Box 6 Item 19
Archival Resource Key. White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1905".
Box 2 Box 6 Item 20
Archival Resource Key. White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1906".
Box 2 Bin 6 Item 21
Archival Resource Key. White bow, blue ribbon with white lettering "DELEGATE/ S.F.P.W./ 1907".
Box 2 Box 6 Item 22
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. "DELEGATE" pin; yellow ribbon, "N.A.W.S.A. CHICAGO 1907".
Box 3 Box 7 Item 24
Archival Resource Key. Yellow fabric rose with ribbon "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Bin 3 Box 8 Item 25
Archival Resource Key. Yellow and Red flower; ribbon "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Box 3 Box 8 Item 26
Archival Resource Key. Green Ribbon.
Box 3 Box 8 Item 27
Archival Resource Key. Yellow bow and blue ribbon "A.A.S.P.I.M. COMMITTEE" .
Box 3 Box 8 Item 28
Archival Resource Key. Blue Ribbon "ALLIANCE" .
Box 3 Box 9 Frame 29
Archival Resource Key. Greenish Ribbon "C. F. W. C./BOSTON, JUNE 22-30 1908".
Box 3 Box 9 Item 30
Archival Resource Key. Blue and white ribbon "COMMITTEE".
Box 3 Box 10 Item 31
Archival Resource Key. White fabric button; yellow ribbon "NEW CENTURY GUILD".
Box 3 Box 11 Item 32
Archival Resource Key. Yellow fabric button; blue ribbon "COMMITTEE".
Box 3 Box 10 Item 33
Archival Resource Key. "I.C.W." Medallion.
Box 3 Box 11 Item 34
Archival Resource Key. White button "222".
Box 3 Box 11 Item 35
Archival Resource Key. Black button "VOTES FORWOMEN".
Box 3 Box 11 Item 36
Archival Resource Key. Red flower with green leaves Pin "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE".
Box 3 Box 11 Item 37
Archival Resource Key. White button "SWAT THE FRANCHISE".
Box 4 Box 12 Item 38
Archival Resource Key. Blue button "NO" .
Box 4 Box 12 Item 39
Archival Resource Key. Pink button "VOTE NO ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE".
Box 4 Box 12 Item 40
Archival Resource Key. Pink and gray ribbons pinned together.
Box 4 Box 13 Item 41
Archival Resource Key. Pink and gray ribbon, knotted.
Box 4 Box 13 Item 32
Archival Resource Key. Pink and gray ribbons pinned together.
Box 4 Box 13 Item 33
Archival Resource Key. Yellow and blue ribbon, in bow.
Box 4 Box 14 Item 34
Archival Resource Key. Yellow and blue tied in bow.
Box 4 Box 14 Item 35
Archival Resource Key. Yellow and blue Ribbon.
Box 4 Box 14 Item 36
Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon tied in bow.
Box 4 Box 15 Item 37
Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon, in bow.
Box 4 Box 15 Item 38
Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon, in bow.
Box 4 Box 15 Item 39
Archival Resource Key. Yellow Ribbon, in bow.
Box 4 Box 15 Item 40
Archival Resource Key. Yellow and white ribbons.
Box 4 Box 16 Item 41
Archival Resource Key. Yellow and white ribbon, in bow.
Box 4 Box 16 Item 42
Archival Resource Key. Grayish brown ribbon, tied.
Box 4 Box 17 Item 43
Archival Resource Key. American flag ribbon, in bow.
Box 4 Box 17 Item 44
Archival Resource Key. "BRYN MAWR" flag pin "VOTES FOR WOMEN".
Box 4 Box 18 Item 45
Archival Resource Key. "PENNSYLVANIA" flag pin .
Box 4 Box 18 Item 46
Archival Resource Key. Yellow "DELEGATE" ribbon, white "42ND CONVENTION, N.A.W.S.A./ WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 14-19, 1910.
Box 4 Box 19 Item 47
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. Button "PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS/ 1848-1923/ SEVENTY-FIFTH- ANNIVERSARY" yellow and white ribbons attached.
Box 4 Box 20 Item 49
Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. Paper cup: "Votes for Women 1915" .
Box 2 Folder 9 Item 1
Archival Resource Key. Hand-held fan: "Votes for Women Pennsylvania 1915" .
Box 2 Item 2
Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet in the shape of pocket watch c.1914.
Box 2 Folder 9 Item 3
Archival Resource Key. Three leaves from a suffrage-themed calendar c.1912.
Box 2 Folder 9 Item 4

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