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• Votes for Women in the Dim and Speculative Future
  Visual Description: A woman with masculine features is wearing a dress and standing in a little garden of flowers, with a bird bath behind her. She is carrying a woman’s hat on her arm and appears to have a smile or smirk on her face as she stares at the daisy in her hand. Her clothing and dainty background is symbolic with that of a feminine woman. Wording at the top and bottom of the image indicate that this is what women will look like once given the right to vote.
• [German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with other suffrage pageant participants standing in background in front of the Treasury Building, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.]
  Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913.-  Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant." The pageant featured an allegory in which Columbia summoned Justice, Charity, Liberty, Pease, and Hope to review the new crusade of women.
• [Susan B. Anthony to the women of today: "Everything but the vote is still to be won"] / Allender.
  Drawing for the Equal Rights magazine shows Susan B. Anthony pointing to the Bill of Rights she is holding and faces two women who are holding slips labeled "Vote."
• [When Tennessee, the 36th state, ratified on Aug 18, 1920, Alice Paul, national chairman of the Woman's Party, unfurled the ratification banner from suffrage headquarters, Washington, DC]
  Photo shows a group of women waving their arms in celebration while the ratification banner with its thirty-six victory stars hangs from the balcony of the National Woman's Party headquarters and proclaims the triumph of the cause for which the Woman's Party was founded--the national enfranchisement of the women of America. (Source: The Suffragist, Volume 8, no. 8, September 1920)
• The Awakening
  Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller.
• Suffrage demonstration at Lafayette Statue
  5 women posed at the statue with French flags.
• Undaunted
  Visual Description: A woman is seated, staring away from the viewer as she is pondering deeply. She is pictured in dark colored clothing and a hairstyle of the time, indicating she may be middle-class. The dark, shaded background fills the image with negative thoughts. The caption signifies that she is ashamed of the justice system and the laws or lack thereof, that its people must obey. Arrows on her clothing draw attention to her face and emotions of disgrace and fearlessness, hence the title “Undaunted”.
• Suffrage pageant - flower girls L.I., N.Y.
  Photo shows participants in suffrage pageant and parade which went from Mineola to Hempstead, Long Island, New York, May 24, 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, May 24, 1913)
• Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913 / Dale
  Cover of program for the National American Women's Suffrage Association procession, showing woman, in elaborate attire, with cape, blowing long horn, from which is draped a "votes for women" banner, on decorated horse, with U.S. Capitol in background.
• Fall in Line
  Alice Paul was a big force in having suffrage march to get people's attention. This music was played during the march, and the march was used to get media coverage and spread to word about their cause. This music shows the importance and thought that went into getting the word out about women's suffrage.
• [Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.]
  Photo shows lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain riding astride in the March 3, 1913, suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., as the first of four mounted heralds. Additional information about the Bain Collection is available at http://memory.loc.gov/pp/ggbainhtml/ggbainabt.html
• The apotheosis of suffrage
  From the famous fresco by Brumidi in the Rotunda of the Capital.
• A Female Suffrage Fancy
  Composite of eight caricatures showing women dressing and interacting in society as men. In the top right, there's a picture of a man taking care of children because his wife has left. Below that, there's a drawing of women threatening men with guns in order to chase them away from the polls. At the very bottom, there's a drawing of women who are voting for the most handsome candidate. In the top middle, women are drawn in men's clothes, pulling a large wagon. In the very middle, a woman is dressed as a man, wearing a top hat and suit; everything around her is messy or broken. At the bottom left, there's a drawing of women, again dressed as men, excessively drinking. Above that, they're seen meeting political candidates and shaking hands. Lastly, at the top left, a man is sitting in a chair across from his wife and children.
• Shall women vote?
  Illustration shows a man labeled "Graft Politics" paying, with his left hand, a tramp labeled "Floater" at the end of a line of tramps outside a polling place, while with his right hand he attempts to stop a woman from speaking out for women's suffrage; vignette scenes show women working in sweatshops, children taking care of younger children, living in tenement housing, working in factories, and being arrested.
• The new woman -- wash day
  A yellowed stereographa of a woman looking on at a man who is doing laundry and looking towards her. The image is currently split down the middle and the two figures are not looking at each other in the way that they would have in the original image. The man is stooped over at a wooden basin and holding an unidentifiable piece of clothing, He is also wearing an apron and skirt. The woman is wearing pants, a hat in a masculine fashion, as well as pants and men’s plaid knickers. She is smoking a cigarette and has one leg propped on a chair as she watches the man wash the clothing. Behind the woman, there is a bicycle propped against the wall and behind the man, there is an assortment of household goods such as a stove, a teapot, and laundry hung to dry.
• Afternoon tea / Albert Levering 1910
  Illustration shows a socialite, prisoner "no. 500", in prison as a martyr for the cause of women's suffrage, having a tea party with her society friends outside her cell labeled "Cell no. 500 Our Noble Martyress".
• 3c Progress of Women
  Visual Description: Three women are shown on a postage stamp: Carrie Chapman Catt, American, 1859 - 1947; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American, 1815 - 1902; Lucretia Coffin Mott, American, 1793 - 1880. The stamp was made in 1948 to commemorate 100 years of women's progress.
• Artist Pepsy M. Kettavong's 2001 "Let's Have Tea" sculptures of women's suffrage pioneer Susan B. Anthony and escaped slave turned emancipation orator Frederick Douglass stand in Rochester, New York's Susan B. Anthony Square Park
• Votes for Women
  Visual Description: Cartoon of a suffragette, Susan B. Anthony waving her umbrella in anger, and carrying a banner inscribed: VOTES FOR WOMEN. Above, a group of fashionably attired women in a line. Umbrella's are a symbol of feminism.
• Representative Women
  Visual Description: Representative Women is a combinative portrait that brings together seven women who were active on the lecture circuit. The visual power of the image stems from its ability to reveal both the cohesiveness of the movement and the strong individual personalities within it. Clockwise from the top are portraits of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Livermore, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Susan B. Anthony, and Sara Jane Lippincott, who surround the central figure of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. At the time, Dickinson was more popular than Mark Twain and held the distinction of being the highest paid woman on the lecture circuit.
• The Woman Who Dared
  Visual Description: A cartoon showing a man-like Susan B. Anthony wearing top hat and spurs, standing in front of a policewoman, man holding baby, man holding basket of food, and crowd of women parading and campaigning for equality. The top hat that she is wearing is very large and centered, which is meant to be Uncle Sam's iconic hat. The title "The Woman Who Dared" refers to Susan B. Anthony herself. The men in the background are supposed to be shown doing stereotypical women's jobs and work from the time.
• Uncle Sam: "If I could only keep my left hand from knowing what my right hand is doing"
  Drawing for the Suffragist newspaper shows Uncle Sam holding a pennant with his right hand that reads "Democracy for the world" as he holds back a woman holding a sign that reads "Democracy begins at home" with his left hand.
• Insulting the President?
  Drawing for the Suffragist newspaper shows a suffragist holding a banner quoting one of President Wilson's speeches: "'We shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts, for Democracy. For the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments.' W.W."
• Women suffragettes visit Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore
  Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was rejected by the voters in 1915. On Nov. 6, 1917, the suffrage amendment to the New York State Constitution was approved by the voters. The suffragists invited to Sagamore Hill were headed by Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, State Chairman of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party. Sequence of TR talking to three women: the woman in the dark hat and coat is Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid; the woman dressed in furs next to TR is Mrs. Whitehouse; and the tall woman in the light hat and jacket is Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw.
• Votes for Women Bandwagon
  Visual Description: Drawing shows men, possibly legislators, climbing a ladder to board a large vehicle labeled "Band Wagon" that's heading towards the U.S. Capitol that has banners and signs.