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Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote

MHS Resources Relating to this Topic

The Massachusetts Historical Society's collections include manuscript collections relating to people and organizations involved with the anti-suffrage and suffrage movements, as well as many assorted cartoons, 猛烈抨击, and ephemera conveying both pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage messages.

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  • Explore the following fully digitized collection available online: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women records.
  • Portraits of many figures involved in the suffrage debate are available in the fully digitized collection of Portraits of American Abolitionists.
  • Caroline Healey 达尔 manuscripts and published editions

    Caroline Healey 达尔 (1822-1912) was a prominent 19th-century reformer and essayist. 达尔, a feminist and Unitarian Church liberal, played a significant role in the antislavery and women's suffrage movements. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a large collection of her personal papers and they are described in the collection guide to the Caroline Wells Healey 达尔 papers. The MHS is also working on a documentary edition of the Selected Journals of Caroline Healey 达尔, 海伦·R编辑. 迪斯先生. 请参阅 Publications, 利记手机官网 of the Massachusetts Historical Society webpage for details about these volumes. Read more about 达尔's life and the documentary project 在这里.

  • Papers of Judith Winsor 史密斯

    Judith Winsor 史密斯 (1821-1921) was involved in numerous social and political organizations and causes. 她是一个废奴主义者, a member of the Congregational Society, a founder and the first president of the 首页 Club of East Boston (the second women's club in Massachusetts), and an officer in state and national women's suffrage associations. 史密斯 remained active in the suffrage movement until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920. The collection guide to the Papers of Judith Winsor 史密斯 is available through the MHS website.

  • Papers of Mary Bowditch Forbes

    Mary Bowditch Forbes (1878-1961) was an anti-suffragist, anti-socialist, and anti-pacifist lobbyist. For more information, examine the collection guide to the Papers of Mary Bowditch Forbes.

  • Manuscripts relating to 玛丽C. 史密斯

    玛丽C. 史密斯 was involved with the woman's suffrage movement in Massachusetts from 1892-1900. She wrote many letters to influential people asking them to make statements on the woman's suffrage question. She was married to 卡尔文W. 史密斯 and her letters are within the 卡尔文W. 史密斯 papers; (refer to the collection guide).

网络的功能

"A big baby always having to be fed and never growing up": Lucy Stone and 《利记APP官网手机版》
Learn about Lucy Stone, the American Woman's Suffrage Association and its publication, 《利记APP官网手机版》,在这个在线专题中.

"A rash and dreadful act for a woman": The 1915 Woman Suffrage Parade in Boston
This web feature describes the state of the Massachusetts suffrage movement in 1915, when supporters of women's suffrage held a parade and rally on 16 October 1915, just weeks before the majority of Massachusetts men voting on 2 November 1915 voted against an amendment to the state constitution that would have struck the word "male" from the article that gave men the right to vote

The Biblical View of the Great Question of Woman’s Suffrage
Read about a letter written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869 requesting Edward Morris Davis, a wealthy merchant who supported many social reforms, to speak about woman's suffrage at the annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association.

The Role of Massachusetts Women in the Abolition and Suffrage Movements (教案)
Explore lessons and handouts developed by Brianna M. 墨菲,高等数学 & Science Academy Charter School, 马尔堡, MA, that focus on the evolving role of women in reform movements.

Printed Materials (Online)

“妇女的选举权”
Fredrikke S .雕刻. 帕尔默
什么破坏了家庭?
较宽的一面 by Mary Ellen Sigsbee
致男性公民
较宽的一面 by Mary Ellen Sigsbee

Votes for Women: “Let the People Rule”
克利福德·K的《侧舷. 由漫画家
“让路!"
漫画作者:劳拉·E. 福斯特)
Madam, Who Keeps Your House?
较宽的一面 by National American Woman Suffrage Association

Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Victory Parade : Instructions for Marchers
报纸
代表女性
雕刻
The South's Battalion of Death
侧向n.d.

的抗议
1908年1月
Anti-Suffrage Calendar, 1917
Anti-suffrage calendar-1916. Including page for January and February.
蜉蝣

反对选举权的呼声高涨
Words and music by Phil Hanna
Shall the Tail Wag the Dog?
较宽的一面
计算成本
圆形 by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts

玫瑰明信片
Postcard by Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Society
Population Votes, Not Area
舷侧,[约1913年]
停止! 看! 听!
Pamphlet by the Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, January 1915

Mr. 选民!
圆形 by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
致工人
圆形 by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
Some Reasons Why Women Oppose Votes for Women
圆形 by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts

对妇女选举权投反对票
圆形
专业的嫉妒
左舷侧. Voos
的抗议
1908年1月

爸爸照看宝宝
凹版印刷J.A. 德斯蒙德. 多尔切斯特
《她母亲的声音》
Cartoon by Harold Bird, January 1912
拥抱错觉
劳拉·E的明信片. 福斯特,1915

首页!
雕刻
未来的两姐妹
R雕刻. F. Schabel?
它的遗憾!
较宽的一面