Object Details
Description
Button worn by supporters of woman suffrage.
This button displays two symbols of the suffrage movement: the colors purple, white and green and the popular slogan “Votes for Women,” Purple, green and white were the colors adopted by the British woman’s suffrage organization, the Women’s Social and Political Union (formed in 1903 and dissolved in 1917, the WSPU was instrumental in bringing about universal woman’s suffrage in Britain, which was not gained until 1928). When Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch formed the Women’s Political Union in the United States (originally the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women), she adopted the purple, green and white standard as well.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Caroline L. Babcock
ID Number
PL.246529.09
catalog number
246529.09
accession number
246529
Object Name
button
Measurements
overall: 1 in x 1 in x 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm x .635 cm
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
Subject
Women's Suffrage
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1444303