Woman Suffrage Postcard
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Object Details
- associated date
- March 14, 1910
- Description
- This postcard honors Susan B. Anthony and urges women to complete her work for suffrage. Anthony died in 1906, fourteen years before passage of the nineteenth amendment giving women the right to vote. In her last public speech for woman suffrage she declared that, "Failure is impossible."
- The National American Woman Suffrage Association began a postcard campaign in 1910, partly to raise awareness of the cause and partly as a fundraiser. The cards could be funny, serious, or sentimental. Some employed powerful patriotic symbols and logical arguments to make their case for woman’s right to vote.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- general subject association
- Women's Suffrage
- Postcards
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Marjorie Longwell
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- PL.257500.16
- catalog number
- 257500.16
- accession number
- 257500
- Object Name
- postcard
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 1/32 in; 13.97 cm x 8.255 cm x .0508 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1444284