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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…

Print showing a woman leaving the house to vote on election day while her distraught husband is left behind to tend to the children and house by himself. A plate has been broken, both children are crying and even the cat is in a panic. Hanging in a…

Photograph shows men looking at material posted in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters; sign in window reads "Headquarters National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage".

This color illustration charts the development of a woman from age 15 to age 50, when she becomes a suffragette.

Illustration shows a jury of men crying as they present a "Not Guilty" verdict; standing before the jury, a man, also crying, embraces a woman.

Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are marked. A policeman is standing on the…

Color illustration of a young girl wearing a dress, who is crying and pulling on a pair of pants.

Inscription: Caption: MAY 1920. LAST MINUTES. THE GIRLS AND MEES AT 11. O/CLOCK RECESS., Not in RLIN. History note from HOLLIS (for MC291): Science teacher (Radcliffe, A.B., 1914; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M., 1928), Holman was head…

Inscription: Recto: BUZY 1920; Verso: March 8, 1920. Dear Mary. -Home Sunday morning. How are you? Had a wonderful time at Amiens, am very very glad I went, brief of course, but I absorbed quite a little of the Cathedral and it is wonderful. Arrived…

Inscription: Caption: Tuesday Club's 110th Anniversary Celebration aboard of "Doc Edgerton" of the Boston Aquarium, courtesy of Ann W. Brewer, May 1994. Those attending: Jay Howland, Helen Fernald, Hattie Belin, Ann Brewer, Anne Cobb, Nancy Coolidge,…