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This statue of Adèle Goodman Clark is part of a larger installation entitled "Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women's Monument." The group of bronze statues is a state memorial commemorating the contributions of Virginia women to the history of…
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This program announces the topics and speakers for the Equal Suffrage League of Richmond's weekly meetings between Thursday, January 8, 1914 and Thursday, April 2, 1914. Topics for these weekly meetings include "Woman Suffrage and Organized…
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Postcard with poem promoting Woman Suffrage.Text reads:Bread and Roses, by James OppenheimAs we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days --The rising of the Women means the rising of the race --No more the drudge and idler -- Ten that toil…
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Your Vote
Was handed to you when you became twenty-one years old.
You didn't have to ask for it.
You didn't have to prove that you were qualified for it.
Our Government considers you are a thinking being and therefore can judge better than others…

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THE FORM OF BALLOT WILL BE AS FOLLOWS
AMENDMENT No. 1 Shall the proposed amendment to section one of article two of the Constitution, conferring equal suffrage upon women, be approved?
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Vote "YES" on Amendment No. 1
as marked above...

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WOMEN IN THE HOME
We are forever being told that the place for women in in the HOME. Well, so be it. But what do we expect of her in the home? Merely to stay in the home is not enough. She is a failure unless she does certain things for the home.…

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Seal at top reads: The Blot on the Escutcheon. The Ballot is Denied to Woman
Ribbon printed with text: Think it Over. An ounce of persuasion precedes a pound of coercion.
Main text: Woman, if granted the right of Equal Suffrage, would not endeavor…

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"For Justice and Mercy Women's Over Sea Hospital Unit Sails For France" cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor
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"In the Hands of Her Friends" cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor
Illustration on back cover from a painting by Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1905).
Woman Citizen January 5 1918 In the hands of her friends.jpg

"Handing on the Work" by C. D. Batchelor
"Special Convention Number"
Woman Citizen Special Convention Number Feb 14 1920 Handing on the Work rsz.jpg

"Help! I Can't Keep It Down" by Charles H. Winner
Woman Citizen Dec 20 1919 Help I cant keep it down.jpg

"Women Bring All Voters Into the World. Let Women Vote." cover illustration by James Montgomery Flagg
Woman Citizen Oct 27 1917 JMFlagg rsz.jpg

"Halt Who Goes There?" cartoon by C. D. Batchelor
The Woman Citizen January 19 1918 Halt Who Goes There.jpg

Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va. in front of Washington Monument, Capitol Square, Richmond. The members of the ESL were promoting the suffrage film, "Your Girl and Mine."Photo published inThe Times-Dispatch: Richmond, Va., February 28, 1915, p.…
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Challenging conventional stereotypes of the political cartoonist, dozens of American women made cartoons advocating women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. Their compelling and imaginative cartoons, strengthened by newly established art…
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Printed by Erie Litho & Ptg Co.
Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970)
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