VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Special Collections and Archives 901 Park AvenueBetsy Pittman and Susan King
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Women's suffrage printed ephemera collection, Collection # M 71, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
The first women's rights meeting in the United States was a social gathering of five women in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. The women who attended the meeting, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann McClintock, Martha Wright, and Jane Hunt organized a convention at Seneca Falls later the same year that included approximately 300 men and women and set the movement for women's suffrage in full motion. After seven decades of lobbying and outreach by several generations of activists, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote was ratified in 1920.
Fifteen printed items were purchased from book dealers in the 1990's. Except for one item from Chicago, these printed handbills and pamphlets are from the state of New York circa 1917 and before.
Items arranged chronologically.
Published in New York by Andrews
Published in New York by the National Woman Suffrage Association
Published in New York by the Women Voters' Anti-Suffrage Party
Published in New York by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Published in New York by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association
Published in New York by the Loyal Publication Society
Published in New York by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Published in Chicago by the Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women
Published in Michigan by the Cargill Company for the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Published in New York by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Published in New York by the Empire State Campaign Committee
Published in New York by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Published in New York by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party