Suffrage Rally, May 1, 1915, Richmond, Va. [photographs]
These photographs document a suffrage rally held on the south portico of the Virginia Capitol on May 1, 1915. Dr. E. N. Calisch, rabbi of <a href="https://www.bethahabah.org/" target="_blank" title="congregation website" rel="noreferrer noopener">Congregation Beth Ahabah</a>, spoke in favor of woman suffrage at the event. Joy Montgomery Higgins of Nebraska addressed the crowd next.<br /><br />The Equal Suffrage League was denied permission to speak on city streets by Richmond Mayor Ainslie, on the grounds that, while there was no law forbidding them to speak, neither was there one that allowed him to grant them a permit. The women proceeded to give speeches from inside an automobile, and the event was documented and reported by the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1915-05-02/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" title="Chronicling America, Library of Congress historic newspapers" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Richmond Times-Dispatch</em><span> on May, 2, 1915.</span></a> According to the paper, <br /><br /><blockquote>Floating suffrage banners, fluttering yellow ribbons, silver-toned bugles, and a brass band proclaimed the fact that yesterday was Equal Suffrage Day in Richmond, as well as in every other town and city of the United States. <br /><br />Throughout the morning forty women, at eleven stands about the city, sold copies of the Woman's Journal, and suffrage flags, buttons, and postcards. The cordial and sympathetic attitude shown by the public was regarded as a striking illustration of the change in public opinion effected during the last few years. </blockquote>
<br />By June, ESL members had successfully secured <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/532" target="_blank" title="See the permit from June 1915" rel="noreferrer noopener">a permit</a> to speak on city streets. <br /><br />Note: Images displayed here are black and white copies of the original photographs.<br /><br />Automobile identified as that of Mrs. W. W. Foster. Occupants of the vehicle are: (back seat) Mrs. Alice Overby Taylor, Mrs. W. Hill Urquhart, Jr., Mrs. G. Harvey Clark; (middle seat) <a href="https://archive.org/stream/birdlore19nati/birdlore19nati#page/452/mode/1up" target="_blank" title="photograph" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joy Montgomery Higgins</a>, Mrs. Charles V. Meredith; (front seat) Lila Meade Valentine, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Vernon" target="_blank" title="Mabel Vernon bio" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mabel Vernon</a>, Chauffer, James.
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Woman's Journal and Suffrage News, November 30, 1912
Editorial cartoon by Ralph Wilder published <em>Woman's Journal and Suffrage News</em>, Vol . 43, No. 47, November 30, 1912.<br /><br />A group of suffragists wearing "Votes for Women" sashes enter a room where they are greeted by women labelled "Idaho," "Washington," "Utah," "Wyoming," "Colorado," and "California" (states where women could already vote). The suffragists joining the party are "<a href="https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/explore/exhibits/woman-intro.aspx" target="_blank" title="Learn more about woman suffrage in Oregon" rel="noreferrer noopener">Oregon</a>," "<a href="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/items/show/1596" target="_blank" title="Learn about woman suffrage in Michigan" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michigan</a>," "<a href="https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/women-s-suffrage/14524" target="_blank" title="Learn about woman suffrage in Kansas" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kansas</a>," and "<a href="https://azlibrary.gov/dazl/learners/research-topics/womens-suffrage" target="_blank" title="Learn about woman suffrage in Arizona" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arizona</a>."<br /><br />Caption: "Meanwhile The Ladies Have Been Having a Perfectly Lovely Time"<br /><br />Publication note: "Courtesy Chicago Record-Herald"
Wilder, Ralph
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/woman-suffrage/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery Set, Woman Suffrage" rel="noreferrer noopener">Woman Suffrage</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/editorial-cartoons/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery Set on editorial cartoons - Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wielding the Pen: Editorial Cartooning for Social Reform</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br />Winslow, C. S. (1947). <a href="https://archive.org/details/earlychicagoasse00wins/mode/2up" target="_blank" title="Read this book" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Early Chicago: As Seen by a Cartoonist</em></a>. Illus. by Ralph Wilder. Chicago: Charles S. Winslow pub.
The Rights of the People -- Women Are People. Suffrage Victory Map [ESL of Virginia / NAWSA broadside]
This broadside has a map at top that shows the extent of woman suffrage across the United States. At this time, women could vote in presidential elections in some states; in municipal elections in others; and only with regard to school bond and tax matters in others. <br /><br />The lower half of the broadside is titled "VIRGINIA WOMEN WANT THE VOTE." The text was created by the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. It argues that two out of three women across the state, in both rural and urban location, are suffragists. "Virginia women who are asking for enfranchisement are BY NO MEANS A SMALL MINORITY." <br /><br />"The child and the home are the greatest assets of the nation. <br />The Farmer's Wife is his working partner. She helps him to pay taxes on roads and schools. She should have the right on where and how these roads and schools are built; to elect the school trustees who determine what her children shall be taught." <br /><br />"Virginia wives and mothers should vote upon public health laws and moral laws which vitally affect the welfare of the family." <br /><br />The broadside then addresses the argument that a federal amendment permitting women to vote will increase the voting power of African Americans in the south. With the Civil War and Reconstruction only fifty-four years in the past, the southern states were against any federal law reducing their right to control who could vote. The ESL makes the argument that the states' power to levy poll taxes, have residency requirements, and require that voters be able to read and write will be sufficient. <br /><br />"Whte Supremacy. There is now no negro domination under male suffrage in the counties in Virginia where white people are in the minority, and there will be no negro domination with men and women voting." <br /><br />The broadside also argues that women are conservative voters, so woman suffrage will not increase the socialist vote.
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Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no. 2, November 1914
A publication of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. <br /><br />The ESL formed in November 1909 in Richmond, Va. Lila Meade Valentine served as the first president. Adele Goodman Clark, Nora Houston, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Kate Waller Barrett, and Kate Langley Bosher were among the approximately 20 women who founded the group. In 1910, Ellen Gertrude Kidd, owner of "Pin Money Pickles" became treasurer of the ESL. An advertisement for Pin Money Pickles appears on p. 16 of this issue.
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
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Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no.3, December 1914
A publication of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. <br /><br />The ESL formed in November 1909 in Richmond, Va. Lila Meade Valentine served as the first president. Adele Goodman Clark, Nora Houston, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Kate Waller Barrett, and Kate Langley Bosher were among the approximately 20 women who founded the group. In 1910, Ellen Gertrude Kidd, owner of "Pin Money Pickles" became treasurer of the ESL.
Equal Suffrage League
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Permit granted to Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to hold public meetings in the street, June 23, 1915.
Permit issued by the Mayor of Richmond, Va. allowing the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to hold public meetings on the streets and in the parks of the city. <br /><br />On May 1, 1915, the ESL were denied permission to speak on city streets by Mayor Ainslie, on the grounds that, while there was no law forbidding them to speak, neither was there one that allowed him to grant them a permit. The women proceeded to give speeches from inside an automobile. The event was documented and reported by the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1915-05-02/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" title="Chronicling America, Library of Congress historic newspapers" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Richmond Times-Dispatch</em> on May, 2, 1915.</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/562" target="_blank" title="view photographs of the woman suffrage rally" rel="noreferrer noopener">Photographs from the May 1 rally</a> may be found in the Social Welfare History Image Portal.
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Does the Bible Teach the Equality of Men and Women?
<p>This document is a single sheet of paper printed on both sides. The essay, "Does the Bible Teach the Equality of Men and Women?" was written by Mrs. Milton McNeilan (<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LTUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA525-IA1&lpg=PA525-IA1&dq=milton+mcneilan+parkersburg+wv&source=bl&ots=AeTZg0e0BL&sig=ACfU3U1YPjLoRsC0Dh9L6BGoUxJzUm0Bxw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtg7D7_bDoAhVkYTUKHQVTDCsQ6AEwAHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=milton%20mcneilan%20parkersburg%20wv&f=false" target="_blank" title="History of West Virginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarabel James McNeilan</a>) a member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and State Organizer of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association, 1914-15. </p>
<p>Excerpts:</p>
<p>In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that after the other things were created “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” And he said, “Let them dominion over the fish of the sea, the foul [sic] of the air, “ etc. But he did not say that ONE WAS TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE OTHER. There is not a suggestion of this….</p>
<p>“It was not until after the fall of man that the curse was pronounced the material curse for the man, bondage for the woman. …”</p>
<p>In all Christ’s teachings we do not find even a suggestion of an “inferior sex....”</p>
<p>Those who read the Bible intelligently, and understand the history of that period, will see that the place where it seems to teach the subjection and inequality of women, merely pertain to ancient Oriental customs and traditions, and are not the teachings of Christ. There is absolutely nothing in the latter to indicate that He would prohibit women from having a share in the government, merely because they are women. These accounts of ancient customs and traditions do not apply to women of today and more than they do to men of today, and have nothing to do with Christianity, as Christ taught it. If we are followers of Christ let us teach and quote Christ, who taught justice and equality for all, as well as an all embracing love, ‘love the fulfilling of the law.’ That is Christianity and what we should get from the Bible.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Reprinted from the Suffrage Edition of Atlantic City Review, October 12, 1915.)</p>
<p>Leaflets may be obtained from The Parkersburg Equal Suffrage Association at 5c per dozen.</p>
<p>Printed in The City Print Shop, Parkersburg, by a Union Printer</p>
McNeilan, Mrs. Milton (Clarabel James McNeilan, b. 1872)
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Miss Margaret Foley The Well Known Suffragist Will Speak [broadside]
Broadside publicizes two presentations by suffragist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Foley_(suffragist)" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Foley" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Foley</a>: Hampton Court House on Wednesday, April 12, 1916 and in Newport News on Thursday, April 13, 1916. <br /><br />"Miss Margaret Foley <br />The Well Known Suffragist <br />Will Speak on Votes for Women...<br /><br />Miss Foley is the only woman who ever spoke in the Harvard Stadium and a most popular speaker. <br /><br />ALL ARE WELCOME<br />Come and Hear What She Has to Say<br /><br />Under the Auspices of the Hampton and Newport News Equal Suffrage Leagues"<br /><br />Handwritten note at top of page, <br />[?] liked Miss Foley "the best yet"<br /><br />Addition handwritten note gives Newport News location as Knights of Columbus Hall.
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Learn more: <br /><br />Photograph of <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.150016/" target="_blank" title="LoC photograph of Foley" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffage News</a>, Library of Congress <br /><br /><a href="https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA211768465180003941" target="_blank" title="archival collection" rel="noreferrer noopener">Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 (inclusive), 1909-1929 (bulk)</a>, Harvard Library <br /><br />McDaid, J. D. (2019, September 12). <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Equal_Suffrage_League_of_Virginia_1909-1920#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Article on the ESL" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (1909-1920)</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia</em>
Come and Hear Southern Speakers Answer the Anti-Suffrage Arguments of Miss Lucy Price [broadside]
Broadside advertising Southern Speakers answering the anti-suffrage arguments of Miss Lucy Price of Ohio. Price was a well-known opponent of woman suffrage who argued "We know that we are the equals of men but we also feel that we have a work of our own that is just as important as that of men." (<a href="https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19150212.2.5&" target="_blank" title="Newspaper article, 1915" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Cornell Daily Sun</em></a>, 1915 February 12) <br /><br />Text:<br /><br />Come and hear Southern Speakers Answer the Anti-Suffrage Arguments of Miss Lucy Price of Ohio at the Suffrage Hearing Before the Joint Committees of the Senate and House in the Hall of the House of Delegates Monday, January 31st, at 4 O'clock." [Time is struck through and corrected to 3:30 O'clock.]
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1915
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Learn more: <br /><br />"<a href="https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19150212.2.5&" target="_blank" title="Newspaper article" rel="noreferrer noopener">Noted Anti-Suffragist to Speak Here Tonight. Miss Lucy Price Will Present Arguments Against Giving Ballot to Women.</a>" <em>The Cornell Daily Sun</em>, vol. 35, no. 101 (1915 February 12). Cornell University Library <br /><br />"<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19130221&id=cfhGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JfgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3687,5413728" target="_blank" title="newspaper article on even where Lucy Price spoke" rel="noreferrer noopener">Think Women Better Off Without Right to Vote</a>" <em>The Day </em>(1913 February 21), p.11
Anti-Allies and the Dog [editorial cartoon by Blanche Ames Ames]
Editorial cartoon by <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Blanche+Ames+Ames" target="_blank" title="editorial cartoons by Blanche Ames Ames" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blanche Ames Ames</a> from the front page of <em>Woman's Journal and Suffrage News</em>, vol. 46, no. 40 (Saturday, October 2, 1915).<br /><br />"Anti-Allies and the Dog" shows a woman wearing a hat marked "Anti" impeding the progress of a woman on horseback who carries the banner Woman Suffrage. The Anti has tied a rope to one of the horse's elgs. <br /><br />Hidden behind a wall are other forces helping to slow the progress of Woman suffrage: "Bo$$," "Vicious Interests," "Liquor Interests," and a dog with "Reardon" tied to his tail. Reardon may refer to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0S5JAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA8&lpg=RA3-PA8&dq=dennis+f+reardon+anti+suffrage&source=bl&ots=QTOK9kk3Wk&sig=ACfU3U2VAOOaJH5hR4z8RJDtRj5geG2Cfw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE7oWE1KvmAhWuwVkKHUQYDxMQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=dennis%20f%20reardon%20anti%20suffrage&f=false" target="_blank" title="more about Dennis F. Reardon" rel="noreferrer noopener">Representative Dennis F. Reardon</a> of Boston, who voted against woman suffrage and founded a Voters Anti-Suffrage League.
Ames, Blanche Ames
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1915 October 2
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/editorial-cartoons/gallery" target="_blank" title="Wielding the Pen: image gallery" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wielding the Pen: Editorial Cartooning for Social Reform</a>, Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Blanche+Ames+Ames" target="_blank" title="Blanche Ames Ames cartoons" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blanche Ames Ames</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Sheppard, A. (1994). <em>Cartooning for Suffrage. </em>Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
Laws of Virginia with Regard to Women Contrasted with Laws Where Women Vote [Equal Suffrage League handbill]
This sheet compares Virginia laws pertaining to women with those of states where female suffrage already had been approved. Arranged in two contrasting columns, the sheet presents twelve points and includes an Equal Suffrage League of Virginia enrollment form on the second page. Laws covered include those relating to property rights, inheritance, and parental guardianship.<br /><br />The League was founded in 1909 and included prominent women such as Adèle Clark, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Mary Munford, Nora Houston, and Lila Meade Valentine (the league’s first president). After a decade of failure to convince Virginia’s representatives that women should have the vote, the League switched focus to winning Congressional passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. <br />
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=f3b8ddd0-07da-4565-a2bd-a3e347b7b058">Rare Books, Call Number JK1901 .L42 1910z</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1910s
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Suffrajests [handbill]
Anti-suffrage broadside poking fun at the woman suffrage movement. Filled with puns and inside jokes, the source and precise meaning of this publication are uncertain. <br /><br />Notes: The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. <br /><br />The "hatchet" refers to Carrie Nation, the radical temperance activist. The "wets" (and "drys") were the two sides on the issue of prohibition. <br /><br />Some of the puns refer to foods made from corn: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits" target="_blank" title="How do you make grits and hominy?" rel="noreferrer noopener">grits and hominy</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum" target="_blank" title="What is postum?" rel="noreferrer noopener">Postum</a> is a coffee substitute made from roasted wheat and molasses. <br /><br /><em>Paradise Lost</em> is an epic poem written by John Milton. The poem is divided into twelve sections known as "books." A "canto" is another word for the sections into which some long poems are divided. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage" target="_blank" title="What is this book?" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The History of Woman Suffrage </em></a>quotes a line from <em>Paradise Lost</em>, "All is not lost: the unconquerable will is ours."<br /><br /><em><a href="http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/" target="_blank" title="Read issues of The Masses online" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Masses</a> </em>was a richly illustrated socialist magazine, published monthly from 1911 until 1917. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />SUFFRAJESTS <br />If our husbands' socks are full of holes, <br />Our holier duty is at the polls....<br /><br />We didn't need the "hatchet"--we've got the "Club." Hurrah! <br /><br />Put your bets on the suffragettes. If you'll back them up they'll uphold the "wets." That's a stand off. <br /><br />We don't believe in "force"--it isn't what its "cracked up" to be. "Hominy" is better, and somes "grit" is necessary. You see, we "acknowledge the corn." (This isn't a cereal story.); if it were we'd "postum" up and raise some electioneering dough. Our road isn't all "peaches and cream," but we hope to get our desserts some day.... <br /><br />We are truly yours by a large majority, <br />THE SUFFRAJESTS<br />
Henry S. Wallerstein and Clara Ullman Wallerstein Collection, <a href="https://www.bethahabah.org/bama/" target="_blank" title="Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives</a>
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Headquarters News Letter, Vol. II, No. V, May 15, 1916. National American Woman Suffrage Association
Newsletter published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. <br /><br />Editorial cartoon on cover by <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=C.+D.+Batchelor" target="_blank" title="Materials related to C.D. Batchelor" rel="noreferrer noopener">C. D. Batchelor</a> is captioned, "IF YOU WOULD HAVE A FRIEND, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">BE ONE!</span>" It shows a woman (suffrage) standing with her arms draped over a donkey (at left) and an elephant (at right). Two banners are crossed behind her: "St. Louis (walk less) Suffrage Parade" and "Chicago Suffrage Parade." <br /><br />The article on pp. 6-7 "All aboard for Chicago!" begins "Chicago will be the suffrage center of the United States on June 7th." The article continues, "In the parade, which promises to be the biggest ever held in the Middle West, will be delegations of women from all parts of the country, bouyantly marching behind bands of martial music and keeping step to the beat of a single thought--that of impressing upon the masculine voters of this country the necessity of having the National Republican Convention insert an equal suffrage plank in its national party platform."
National American Woman Suffrage Association
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1916 May 15
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Why Should Women Vote? An Appeal to Gallant Men. [suffrage pamphlet]
Pro-suffrage pamphlet containing editorial cartoons by <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Lou+Rogers" target="_blank" title="cartoons by Lou Rogers" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lou Rogers</a>, Phil Porter, and <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=John+T.+McCutcheon" target="_blank" title="cartoons by John T. McCutcheon" rel="noreferrer noopener">John T. McCutcheon</a>, along with a map showing where women can vote.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p.1 (cover) "WHY SHOULD WOMEN VOTE? <br />This booklet contains all the OBJECTIONS to woman suffrage, their ANSWERS, and the CREAM of all that has been said or written on this subject from Moses and Plato down to Saint Paul and the year of our Lord, 1915. <br /><br />The map that's more than half woman suffrage already -- what's the matter with making it ALL woman suffrage?<br /><br />In the LIGHT States, women enjoy full suffrage. In the shaded States, women have taxation, bond, or school suffrage. In Illinois, women have Presidential, partial county and State, and municipal suffrage. In the DARK States, women have NO vote at all. <br /><br />AN APPEAL TO GALLANT MEN."<br /><br />p. 4 "Which side will get YOUR vote?...<br /><br />Chief Justice Green said, 'The opponents of woman suffrage in Washington find themselves allied with a solid phalanx of gamblers, pimps, prostitutes, drunkards and drunkard-makers.' <br /><br />When respectable people find themselves in alliance with scoundreldom, is it not worth while to stop and consider whether they have not taken their stand in the wrong company?"
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1915
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We Fight For Democracy, 1918 [Uncle Sam, Columbia, and Democracy]
Studio portrait of costumed figures before a sign saying "We Fight For Democracy." This photograph was taken during World War I. <br /><br />Ralph Harvie Wormley as Uncle Sam; Adeline Harmon Cowles as Columbia, Martha Jobson, as Democracy holding a ballot box. <br /><br />These young people rode in the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/189" target="_blank" title="photograph of ESL float" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League float</a> during the Thrift Day Parade in Richmond, Va., March 23, 1918.<br /><br />A Foster studio photo.
Foster Studio.
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1918
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/national-woman-suffrage-association/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Woman Suffrage Association</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="%20http%3A//virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RTD19180324.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 24, 1918</a>, Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia<br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/166" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Woman Citizen</em>, April 20, 1920</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=War+Savings+Stamps" target="_blank" title="War Savings Stamps" rel="noreferrer noopener">War Savings Stamps</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Vote. [League of Women Voters poster by Louis Bonhajo]
Poster shows a muse-like figure pointing towards the Capitol as a woman deposits her ballot into a locked ballot box. The voting woman holds the hand of a small female child dressed in pink.<br /><br />Poster text: "VOTE / League of Women Voters" <br /><br /><span>Printed by Erie Litho & Ptg Co.<br />Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970) </span>
League of Women Voters
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1920
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Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va., February, 1915
Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va. in front of Washington Monument, Capitol Square, Richmond. The members of the ESL were promoting the suffrage film, "<a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/your-girl-and-mine-suffrage-film/" target="_blank" title="story of this photograph and the film" rel="noreferrer noopener">Your Girl and Mine.</a>" <br /><br />Photo published in <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1915-02-28/ed-1/seq-42/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Times-Dispatch</em>: Richmond, Va., February 28, 1915, p. 10</a> <br /><br /><p>Members of the Equal Suffrage League photographed that day:</p>
<p>(left to right in car) Mrs. G. Harvey Clarke (<a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Clarke_Mary_Ellen_Pollard&_ga=2.175183970.1173708905.1558717188-1276624888.1558717188" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke</a>), Mrs. Roy Knight Flannagan (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93140564/lucy-catesby-flannagan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lucy Catesby Jones Flannagan</a>),<span> </span><a href="http://edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers/items/show/94" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nora Houston</a>, Mrs. John Grant Armistead (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40540426/rosalie-fontaine-armistead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rosalie Fontaine Jones Armistead</a>), Mrs.<span> </span><a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Taylor_Alice_Overbey&_ga=2.185137257.1173708905.1558717188-1276624888.1558717188" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice Overbey Taylor</a>, Mrs. Della E. Hooker (widow of J. W. Hooker), Mrs. Charles Vivian Meredith (<a href="https://richmondmagazine.com/news/features/richmond-suffragist-sophie-meredith/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sophie “Posie” Meredith</a>), Mrs. Georgia May Johnson (identified on photo as Mrs. Frank L. Johnson; perhaps Mrs.<span> </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hmQ9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=francis+l+johnson+old+dominion+coal+corp&source=bl&ots=bETL0B_lEw&sig=ACfU3U2hYihe-aIG6jsYMAGaLf5lrnXvnw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi79tSa99fiAhUj1lkKHRjKDOsQ6AEwAHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=francis%20l%20johnson%20old%20dominion%20coal%20corp&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Francis L. Johnson</a>)</p>
<p>(left to right outside car)<span> </span><a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00102.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Clark</a>, Mrs. Archer Gracchus Jones (<a href="http://www.thepoeblog.org/museum-recreates-poes-richmond/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annie Boyd Jones</a>), Mrs. John Garland Pollard (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37651927/grace-pollard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grace Phillips Pollard</a>), Mrs. Carter Wormeley (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19513230/sarah-wormeley" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sarah Harvie Wormeley</a>), Mrs. Earnest Meade (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93376565/aline-jennings-mead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aline Jennings Mead</a>(e),<span> </span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29082011/visitors_at_wedding_of_aline_jennings/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mrs. Earnest C. B. Meade</a>),<span> </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57096212/lynda-mcclanahan-vaughan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lynda McCalanahan Koiner</a>, Mrs.<span> </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15612088/james-stuart-reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">James Stuart Reynolds</a><span> </span>(<a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/2006/09/the-boogie-and-ginnie-double-act/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia “Boogie” Dickinson Reynolds</a>), Mrs. W. Hill Urquhart (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20794946/dorothy-gordon-urquhart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dorothy Gordon Tait Urquhart</a>), Mrs. W. W. Foster (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147546190/carrie-palmore-foster" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Carrie Palmore Hughes Foster</a>)</p>
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1915 February
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Learn more: <br />Campbell, A.W. (2019). <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/your-girl-and-mine-suffrage-film/" target="_blank" title="Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)" rel="noreferrer noopener">Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Equal+Suffrage+League" target="_blank" title="Equal Suffrage League" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Socialism--By Federal Amendment / The Red Behind the Black
Two-sided handbill. One side uses quotations from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messenger_(magazine)" target="_blank" title="The Messenger (magazine)" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Messenger</em></a> (1917-1928) to associate woman suffrage, black voting, and a socialist takeover of the United States government. <br /><br />The handbill argues that Socialists will benefit if a "Force Bill" introduced by Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eli_Watson" target="_blank" title="James Eli Watson" rel="noreferrer noopener">James E. Watson</a> of Indiana were to be passed to enforce the 19th Amendment. The text raises the issues of interracial marriage and desegregation as threats. <br /><br />On the reverse, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Nearing" target="_blank" title="Scott Nearing in Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Scott Nearing</a> is quoted as having replied to the question, "How do you propose to take property away from its owners?"<br /><br />"By CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT--in the same way that the property of the brewers and distillers was taken by Constitutional Amendment. The Prohibitionists have shown us the way in which property can be taken for public purposes without compensation to the owners," etc.<br />--From The Review, Feb. 7, 1920, Page 130
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Senator John T. Morgan Denounces Woman Suffrage. "He Being Dead, yet Speaketh"
Anti-suffrage broadside that argues voting will corrupt women, and, more urgently, that increasing the number of black votes will bring about the end of white supremacy in Alabama. The words of Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler_Morgan" target="_blank" title="John Tyler Morgan" rel="noreferrer noopener">John Tyler Morgan</a>, a staunch proponent of white supremacist ideology, and Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Tayloe" target="_blank" title="William Henry Tayloe" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Henry Tayloe</a>, a wealthy plantation owner, are quoted. Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper are mentioned. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />"White Supremacy Totters in Alabama. Men of the South, Shall It Fall? Woe Be Unto That Man who Would Betray Us. Judge W. H. Tayloe, one of Alabama's Ablest and Informed Statesmen, adds this Warning, Backed by Facts, Figures and Personal Experience." <br /><br />"It is not the moral influence of woman upon the ballot that I am objecting to, and it is not to get rid of that, or to silence or destroy such influence that I oppose it, but it is the IMMORAL influence of the ballot upon woman, that I depreciate and would avoid. <br />I do not want to see her drawn into contact with the rude things of this world, where the delicacy of her senses and sensibilities would be constantly wounded by the attrition with bad and desperate and foul politicians and men. Such is not her function and is not her office; and if we degrade her from the high station that God has place her in to put her at the ballot-box, at political or other elections, we UNMAN ourselves and refuse to do the duties that God as assigned to us." <br /><br />"Though the Supreme Court of the Nation has held that the 14th and 15th amendments were not grants of power to Congress but limitations upon the power of the States; yet it found a way to declare void the provisions of the Constitution of Oklahoma that eliminated the negro in that State as a voter. How soon will it find a way to require the States to let the negro vote? Who can tell?" <br /><br />"Men of the South, the 15th Amendment but sleeps. Write your State Legislators TO-DAY to VOTE AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE."
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Equal Suffrage and the Negro Vote [broadside]
This broadside was issued by the Equal Suffrage League in about 1916. <br /><br />Southern suffragists were forced to respond to anti-suffrage groups who argued that if African American women gained the right to vote, white supremacy would be threatened. Although some prominent suffragists claimed that their response was borne only out of expedience, and not principle, they nonetheless employed Jim Crow arguments by emphasizing the power of the literacy test and the poll tax.
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
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c. 1916
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/75" target="_blank" title="The Negro Vote in the South." rel="noreferrer noopener">The Negro Vote in the South. A Southern Woman's Viewpoint</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
MEN. You are making "The World Safe for Democracy." [anti-suffrage handbill]
Echoing Woodrow Wilson's request for a Declaration of War in 1917, this handbill argued that women should be free from political duties just as they were free from the duty of fighting in war. <br /><br />The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_Opposed_to_Woman_Suffrage#Virginia_Association_Opposed_to_Woman_Suffrage" target="_blank" title="VAOWS on Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage</a>, formed in Richmond, Va. in 1912. This group of women was associated with the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />"MEN. You are making 'The World Safe for Democracy.' And also safe for women. That your Mothers, Sisters and Wives may never have to suffer as the women of Belgium and France have suffered. <br />ALL WOMEN THANK YOU <br />Men manage most of our business.<br />Our Government is a very big business. <br />Most women want men to manage our Government. <br />Only a few women want suffrage. <br />Shall these few women force all women into politics? <br />Women can do their bit best outside of Politics. <br />Our hands are full already with work which only women can do. <br />Women are free from the duty of fighting. <br />Protect us in our right to be free from political duties."
Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Anti-Suffage Arguments [anti-suffrage handbill]
Handbill from the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage articulating arguments against giving women the right to vote. The Association give several reasons why suffrage will not help working women. <br /><br />The VAOWS was a group of women opposed to suffrage who organized in Richmond in 1912. They were affiliated with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_Opposed_to_Woman_Suffrage#Virginia_Association_Opposed_to_Woman_Suffrage" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia article" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage</a>. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />"Votes cannot make work when there is no work.<br />Votes cannot increase wages when there is no natural increase in business. <br /><br />The best safeguards for the working women are found in those States where the laws have been made by men voters....<br /><br />The badge of the Consumer's League has done more for the relief of the working women, than any vote could ever do. <br /><br />A woman's citizenship is as great and as real as that of any man. The Anti-Suffragists stand for the true view of woman's place in the State."
Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Votes for Men. [anti-suffrage handbill]
Anti-suffrage handbill arguing that women have the right to exemption from political duties and to protection, "even against herself, if need be." <br /><br />An advertisement for a weekly journal, <em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066509266;view=2up;seq=6" target="_blank" title="The Woman Patriot, no. 3-4" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Woman Patriot</a>,</em> is included on this handbill. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />"VOTES FOR MEN<br />============<br />'It's up to you, Son," says Uncle Sam.' <br />Stand by the Women! <br />Vote for Women's Rights! <br /><br />The one indisputable right of woman in relation to the State is exemption from political duties. <br /><br />If you vote for the ballot for women, you vote to start a corrupting force for all heedless women, a burden on good women. The man who opposes women's so-called emancipation is the far-sighted lover of his country and his kind. <br /><br />Can man do woman's work? No, no more can woman do man's work. Man and Woman stand side by side as two EQUAL but DIVERSE human entities. Woman's nature is fundamentally organically different from man's. <br /><br />Her right is the right to protection. The whole duty of man towards woman is to protect her, even against herself, if need be. She has a right to be protected, because she can't live a normal life without protection."<br /><br />Reverse side titled "Women's Rights" has quotations from Herbert Spencer, John Bright, and Miss Ida M. Tarbell.
Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=anti-suffrage" target="_blank" title="Anti-suffrage materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anti-suffrage</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066509266;view=2up;seq=6" target="_blank" title="The Woman Patriot, no. 3-4" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Woman Patriot</a>, </em>HathiTrust.org <br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/2ec815626443faf1899ff829f2badc16.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF of this item" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this item</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is hypothes.is?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, Suffrage Procession, Saturday, May 9, 1914 [handbill]
Handbill advertising the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession, May 9, 1914. The women were demanding a United States Constitutional Amendment Enfranchising Women. The march gathered at the Belasco Theatre and processed to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. <br /><br />Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2, 1914 in support of Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing "The March of the Women" composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton.
M 9 Box 49, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1914
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Learn more: <br />Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000269" target="_blank" title="Library of Congress photo of this rally" rel="noreferrer noopener">Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing</a> (photograph). Library of Congress <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/415" title="March of the Women" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shoulder to Shoulder [The March of the Women]</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/utahwomansuffrag00woma" target="_blank" title="Utah Woman Suffrage Song Book" rel="noreferrer noopener">Utah Woman Suffrage Song Book</a>, Internet Archive<br /><a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/204064/page/1" target="_blank" title="Suffrage Song Book" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage Song Book</a>, Kansas Historical Society <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/18" target="_blank" title="Votes for Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Votes for Women. Suffrage Rallying Song</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason. Because [suffrage handbill]
Handbill published by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. <br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason. Because <br /><br />BECAUSE women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men.<br />BECAUSE women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women suffer from bad government just as men do, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE mothers want to make their children's surroundings better, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE over 5,000,000 women in the United States are wage workers and their health and that of our future citizens are often endangered by evil working conditions that can only be remedied by legislation, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women of leisure who attempt to serve the public welfare should be able to support their advice by their votes, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE busy housemothers and professional women cannot give such public service, and can only serve the state by the same means used by the busy men--namely, by casting a ballot, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women are sonsumers, and sonsumers need fuller representation in politics, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women are citizens of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and women are people. They should vote equally with men. <br />EQUAL SUFFRAGE FOR MEN AND WOMEN.<br />WOMEN Need It. <br />MEN Need IT. <br />The STATE Needs IT.<br />WHY?<br />BECAUSE Women Ought to GIVE Their Help.<br />Men Ought to HAVE Their Help.<br />The State Ought to USE Their Help.
New York State Woman Suffrage Association.
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Learn more: <br />"<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/126" target="_blank" title="Let Me Help, Uncle" rel="noreferrer noopener">Let Me Help, Uncle</a>" (political cartoon), Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=suffrage" target="_blank" title="suffrage materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=cartoon">Editorial cartoons</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/7bd2bdb2ca5a113f848a6dd12b30a796.pdf" target="_blank" title="Annotate this document" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this document</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is hypothes.is?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>