#Votes For Women

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August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, a day observed on the anniversary of when the 19th Amendment was certified to the United States Constitution. The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote but those voting rights were still limited in many states and for People of Color. Voting rights were not fully extended to all groups until 1965 under the Voting Rights Act.

The fight for the 19th Amendment did not happen overnight as the suffrage movement that culminated in the certification of the 19th Amendment, on this day in 1920, began almost 100 years prior. Nevertheless, on this very historic day, we must reflect on the power that the right to vote has, especially with an election just over two months away.

For today, Alex letterpress printed one of the slogans used by suffragettes when advocating for the right to vote. This was typeset in 72 point Caslon font. The phrase states, “Votes For Women." This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.

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Marguerite Martyn (September 26, 1878 – April 17, 1948) was an American journalist and political cartoonist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the early 20th century. She was noted as much for her published sketches as for her articles.

She also wrote about women's fashion and the women's suffrage movement, "in which she was enthusiastically interested."

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My county's Democratic party has been handing out sticky notes to place in private areas, like bathroom stalls or stairwells, to remind individuals that who they vote for is private. They're giving out these notes FOR FREE. Give your local Dem's office a call to see if they're doing the same. As the right becomes more extreme, it's important to remind others that their ballot will be private and that early voting is as easy as saying you're going to the grocery store.

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Kewpie Women’s Suffrage Postcards: 1914 + 1915 🤍

📸 Wikimedia Commons

🪽 1914 Postcard

🪽 1915 Postcard

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Vintage cat-centric Women's Suffrage postcards

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Postcard from the early 1900's with a cat supporting women's right to vote.

From the Facebook group “Cat Ladies for Kamala Harris”

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Mrs. Banks from Mary Poppins was not a TERF but she was definitely a “she got the spirit” type of woman.

“George dear, I had the most wonderful time in jail today. Mrs. Pankhurst’s son is now her daughter, and Mr. Fitzmartin - you know from down the street - well he quite oddly thought he should have an opinion to disagree on the matter. So the girls and I took a break from being chained in front of City Hall to persuade Mr. Fitzmartin otherwise. Now I do believe I have a concussion does it show we’re taking Albert or I should say Emmaline yes what a lovely name out shopping for new clothes.”

“Hmm? Oh Mr. Fitzmartin is dead why do you ask?”

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Superb mural on the Lord Morpeth pub in Bow

The Lord Morpeth pub was formerly a meeting place for the suffragette movement

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Ralph Barton, Making the Polls Attractive to the Anti-Suffragists, Puck, 30 February 1915.

Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was founded in 1876 as a German-language publication by Joseph Keppler, an Austrian immigrant cartoonist.[1] Puck's first English-language edition was published in 1877, covering issues like New York City's Tammany Hall, presidential politics, and social issues of the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

"Puckish" means "childishly mischievous". This led Shakespeare's Puck character (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) to be recast as a charming near-naked boy and used as the title of the magazine. Puck was the first magazine to carry illustrated advertising and the first to successfully adopt full-color lithography printing for a weekly publication.

Puck was published from 1876 until 1918. (x)

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We. Are. Not. Going. Back. 🗳️

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“I have earned my own living since I was eighteen, can read and write good English and take an interest in the affairs of my country . . . many men who do none of these things, may vote indiscriminately.” Letter in support of suffrage for women, 5/23/1918.

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate

Series: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled

File Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents which were Presented, Read, or Tabled during the 65th Congress

Transcription: 

Olivia State Bank

                                               Capital $25,000.00

                                               Surplus $15,000.00

M.J. Dowling, President

J.M. Freeman, Vice President

Hattie S. Bordewich, Cashier

Harald Bordewich, Asst. Cashier

H. Griffith, Asst. Cashier

                                                        Olivia, Minnesota

                                                          May 23rd, 1918.

Hon. Frank B. Kellogg,

United States Senator,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I have earned my own living since I was eighteen, can read and write good English and take an interest in the affairs of my country; I pay taxes and can only vote at school meetings and for County Superintendent of Schools, while many men who do none of these things, may vote indiscriminately.  I want equal suffrage for women and would appreciate the aid of our Minnesota delegation in Congress to this end.

                                                 Yours respectfully,

                                      [signed] Hattie S. Bordewich

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