Object Details
Description
This postcard urges support for a coming (unsuccessful) campaign by the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association to ratify a state constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote in 1912. Ohio women could not vote until the state ratified the nineteenth amendment in 1919. The six stars represent the first six states to grant full suffrage: Wyoming (1869), Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), and California (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
Credit Line
Marjorie Longwell
ID Number
PL.257500.21
catalog number
257500.21
accession number
257500
Object Name
postcard
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 in x 1/32 in; 13.97 cm x 7.62 cm x .0508 cm
associated place
United States: Ohio
See more items in
Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
Government, Politics, and Reform
Woman Suffrage
Data Source
National Museum of American History
general subject association
Postcards
Women's Suffrage
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1444287