Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Women's suffrage printed ephemera collection, Collection # M 71, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Biographical / Historical

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 Contents

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Suffragists -- History -- 19th century. -- New York (State)
• Suffragists -- History -- 19th century. -- United States
• Suffragists -- History -- 20th century. -- New York (State)
• Suffragists -- History -- 20th century. -- United States
• Women -- Sources -- Suffrage -- New York (State)
• Women -- Sources -- Suffrage -- United States