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By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

This remarkable collection brings together a plethora of printed materials related to the struggle for woman suffrage in the United States. Created as part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress, the materials here include photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, an anti-suffrage display, as well as a number of cartoons. The site includes a special timeline which...

https://guides.loc.gov/womens-suffrage-pictures
By Popular Demand: Votes For Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

"Votes for Women" is a much smaller pictorial companion to the Library of Congress American Memory "Votes for Women" text collection and contains. The collection consists mostly of portraits (Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, among others), but also includes other pertinent photographs, two political cartoons, and a hyperlinked suffrage timeline.

https://guides.loc.gov/womens-suffrage-pictures
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

An essay on this fine American Memory collection site refers to Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, as "Two Awesome Ladies". It's hard to contest that appellation, particularly when one considers their important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Between 1897 and 1911 these two women created seven scrapbooks which contained letters, press...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suff...
Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage

This site is one of several projects related to the foundation of a National Museum of Women's History in Washington, DC. Although the physical museum itself is yet to be built, NMWH the organization has been sponsoring and collaborating in Women's history initiatives nationwide. The first exhibit in the NMWH cybermuseum marks the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention and "examines the...

https://www.womenshistory.org/