Woman Suffrage Postcard
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Object Details
- Description
- To the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner", this postcard celebrates the first five states to grant full suffrage: Wyoming (1869), Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), and Washington (1910). At the same time it looks forward to a coming (successful) vote in California. California granted woman suffrage in 1911.
- 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
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- 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.257500.17
- catalog number
- 257500.17
- accession number
- 257500
- Object Name
- postcard
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 1/32 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm x .0508 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1444285