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Anti Suffrage

National Anti-Suffrage Association, ca. 1911

Election Day political cartoon, January 21, 1909.

The age of iron. Man as he expects to be.

Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay, by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (front cover)

Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay, by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (page 1)

Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay, by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (pages 2-3)

Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay, by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (page 4)

"Woman Suffrage Defeated in the House" Arkansas Gazette

Documents

Image of The Suffragist (Jan 19, 1918) publication cover

Image of National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc., poster entitled "As a War Measure"

Image of The Suffragist (Oct. 27, 1917) publication cover

Image of The Suffragist (Nov. 3, 1917) publicaiton cover

Image of The Suffragist (Dec. 22, 1917) publication cover

Image of "The Woman or the Beer" article/short story by Bernie Babcock

Image of the title page of "The Martyr" by Bernie Babcock

Image of paper entitled "Suffrage position in all countries which are known to have any form of woman suffrage" (page 3)

Image of paper entitled "Suffrage position in all countries which are known to have any form of woman suffrage" (page 4)

Image of paper entitled "Suffrage position in all countries which are known to have any form of woman suffrage" (page 5)

Image of "Women, Clubs, and Club Women" article, ca. 1912

image of "Tea Ceremony" newsclipping, with photo featuring Mrs. Frederick Hanger and others, August 21, 1904.

Image of paper entitled "Suffrage position in all countries which are known to have any form of woman suffrage" (page 1)

Image of paper entitled "Suffrage position in all countries which are known to have any form of woman suffrage" (page 2)

Image of "If you want a thing bad enough poem," by George H. Doran Co.

Representative Women of Arkansas, including Frances Hanger

Mrs. T.T. Cotnam of Arkansas speaking from the steps of City Hall

Noon-day talk on suffrage by Mrs. T. T. Cotman [Cotnam] of Arkansas at Broadway and Washington

Image of National American Woman Suffrage Association Certificate awarded to Bernie Babcock

Image of political cartoon featuring Senator Hattie Caraway

Envelope address from greeting card from Mame Josenberger to W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. May 1946, wishing Du Bois a happy 50th wedding anniversary.

Image of letter from Mame Josenberger to W. E. B. Du Bois, May 13, 1908, informing Du Bois that she will not be able to attend their 20th Fisk reunion.

Front of greeting card from Mame Josenberger to W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. May 1946, wishing Du Bois a happy 50th wedding anniversary.

Image of inside of card from Mame Josenberger to W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. May 1946, wishing Du Bois a happy 50th wedding anniversary.

Arkansas Homes, featuring parlor of Mrs. Frederick Hanger's residence, Little Rock

Image of program, Arkansas W.C.T.U. Convention, October 1939 (Cover).

Image of "Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay," by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (front cover)

Image of "Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay," by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (page 1)

Image of "Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay," by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (pages 2-3)

Image of "Why I Oppose Woman Suffrage, a Pamphlet not an Essay," by George R. Lockwood, 1912 (page 4)

"For Every Fighter a Woman Worker" poster, 1918.

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 1).

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 2).

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 3).

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 4).

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 5).

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 6).

Image of Innaugural Edition of the Woman's Chronicle, March 3, 1888 (page 7).

Image of "Why Women Need the Ballot" Woman's Chronicle article, August 27, 1891 (part 2).

Image of "Why Women Need the Ballot" Woman's Chronicle article, August 27, 1891 (part 1).

Image of World War I Certificate of Discharge for Estelle E. Smith

Image of "Woman Suffrage Defeated in the House" Arkansas Gazette, begins with text reading "Women suffrage defeated in house contitutional amendment is rejected by vote of 204 to 174. Arkanasans oppose bill, every member of delegation casts his ballot against submission; Day one of Oratory."

Image of "Votes for Women Passes House" Arkansas Gazette article, February 16, 1917 (part 1). Text begins "Votes for women, bill passes house. Permits fair sex to vote in all primary elections in Arkansas. Women fill galleries. Appropriation bills aggregating more that $5,000,000 are introduced--regular and defiency measures.

Image of "Votes for Women Passes House" Arkansas Gazette article, February 16, 1917 (part 2).

Image of "Votes for Women Passes House" Arkansas Gazette article, February 16, 1917 (part 3).

Image of "Votes for Women Passes House" Arkansas Gazette article, February 16, 1917 (part 1 - crop). Text reads "Votes for women, bill passes house. Permits fair sex to vote in all primary elections in Arkansas. Women fill galleries. Appropriation bills aggregating more that $5,000,000 are introduced--regular and defiency measures.

Black and white cartoon image of Ysobel the Suffragette

Black and white cartoon image of Ysobel the Suffragette

Black and white cartoon image of Ysobel the Suffragette

Black and white cartoon image of Ysobel the Suffragette

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Political Cartoons

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, February 16, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, February 14, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon entitled "It's no trouble at all for her to make converts" by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, February 07, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon entitled "Her Cooking Answers all of John's Arguments" by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, February 07, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon entitled "She Stops an Anti-Suffrage Petition to Congress," by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, March 15, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon entitled "She wins the husband of an "Anti" over the cause," by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, March 6, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, March 5, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon entitled "She wins another convert for the cause" by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, March 1, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of Ysobel the Suffragette political cartoon by T.E. Powers, Arkansas Gazette, February 26, 1911. Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.

Image of political cartoon featuring Senator Hattie Caraway

The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave.

Election Day political cartoon, January 21, 1909.

The age of iron. Man as he expects to be.

Suffrage Fashion

Image of female character wearing a S-bend corset. The look expresses a heavy bosom and is accompanied by an overlong skirt, representative of c. 1904 styles.

Image of female character wearing a hobble skirt, representative of c. 1912 styles.

Image of female character in dress illustrating the rise of hemlines following the outbreak of World War I, representative of c. 1918 styles.

Image of female character wearing knee-length hemline, representative of c. 1924 styles.

Image of Governor Charles Brough bow tie. Courtesy of the Old State House Museum Collection.

Image of Governor Charles Brough two piece suit in the "Palm Beach" style. The white jacket features two white buttons on the front and on the cuff. The suit is from the campus shop and made by Goodall and Sanford, Inc.

Suffragists

Arizona suffrage image featuring Arkansans Mrs. Clara McDiarmid and Mrs. T.T. Cotnam

Mrs. T.T. Cotnam (Florence Cotnam), President of Arkansas W.S.A.

Clara A. McDiarmid, a leader in women suffrage in Little Rock, poses for a portrait.

Old State House Suffrage rally view 1, ca. 1914

Old State House Suffrage rally view 2, ca. 1914.

Old State House Suffrage rally view 3, ca. 1914.

Old State House Suffrage rally view 4, ca. 1914.

Adolphine, Mary, and John Gould Fletcher

Adolphine Fletcher Terry, and Mary Fletcher with Fletcher cousins

Mary Fletcher Drennan with infant David D. Terry, Jr.

Mary Fletcher Terry and Mary Fletcher Drennan

Adolphine Fletcher Terry, ca. 1886-1887

Vassar Graduating Class, 1902, including Adolphine Fletcher Terry.

Adolphine Fletcher Terry, 1910

Adolphine Fletcher Terry's wedding portrait, 1910

200 block of Main Street with women's suffrage protestors (View 1)

200 block of Main Street with women's suffrage protestors (View 2)

200 block of Main Street with women's suffrage protestors (View 3)

Protestors for women's suffrage drive by the 200 block of Main Street in Little Rock.

The Honorable Charles H. Brough, 1919

Bernie Babcock in black dress with pearls.

Bernie Babcock posing with temperance newspapers.

Bernie Babcock poses with her book, A Rising Wind.

Bernie Babcock seated at table with open book

Bernie Babcock in hat and lace dress

Bernie Babcock holding a suffrage banner and American flag

Women's suffrage valentine

Clara A. McDiarmid, a leader in women suffrage in Little Rock, poses for a portrait.

Political ephemera of women in Arkansas politics

Members of "petticoat government" in Winslow, Arkansas

John Andrew Riggs, ca. 1900s

The first suffrage picket line leaving the National Woman's Party headquarters to march to the White House gates on January 10, 1917, featuring Pauline Floyd of El Dorado, Arkansas.

Josenberger family tomestone

Mrs. David Terry, Little Rock, Arkansas, Member, Advisory Council [Congressional Union for Women Suffrage]

Capitol Hotel, ca. 1872

Senator Hattie W. Caraway (1878-1950), undated

Florence McRaven, first woman elected to legislature in Arkansas, around the time she first worked for the Labor Commission, ca. 1924

Josephine Miller portrait

The Honorable Charles H. Brough, 1919

Frances Hanger Portrait, ca. 1890s

American Red Cross Nursing Class, World War I, Leslie, Arkansas, 1917-1918.

Women's Suffrage Delegation on the steps of the State Capitol with Governor Charles Brough, 1917.

Nurses at St. Vincent's Infirmary in Little Rock, ca. 1890-1910.

Two Unidentified African American Woman, 1930s.

Two Unidentified African American Women, 1920s.

Four Unidentified African American Women

Miss Erle Chamber and Mrs. Frances Hunt on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol, January 1923.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Parade Float, 1912, in Hope, Hempstead County. (Ark.)

Black and white image of Mame Stewart Josenberger

Temperance

The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave.

Bottles and barrel of confiscated whiskey

Program, Arkansas W.C.T.U. Convention, October 1939 (Cover).

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Parade Float, 1912, in Hope, Hempstead County. (Ark.)

The Woman or the Beer by Bernie Babcock

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