Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

None.

Preferred Citation

Box/folder, Women's Suffrage Printed Emphemera Collection, M 71, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the general collection and purchased from Second Life Books.

Processing Information

Collection original processed by Betsy Pittman in June 1990. Finding aid revised by Susan King in June 2002. Accession numbers: 90-Jun-79; 90-Dec-167; 91-Jul-24; 95-Oct-39

Historical Information

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.

Scope and Content Information

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.

Arrangement

Items arranged chronologically.