WPU Pin

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Object Details

Description

Sash worn by supporters of woman suffrage.

Sashes were worn for rallies, parades, and street speaking. The colors and the small button identify the wearer as a member of the Women’s Political Union. The WPU (formerly the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women) was formed by Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to bring working class women into the suffrage movement. The WPU was responsible for holding the first large suffrage march in the United States (in New York in 1910).

"Votes for Women" was one of the most popular and recognizable slogans used by members of the woman’s suffrage movement.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Smithsonian Institution

ID Number

1983.0455.011

accession number

1983.0455

catalog number

1983.0455.011

Object Name

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Political History: Political History

Government, Politics, and Reform

Woman Suffrage

Data Source

National Museum of American History

general subject association

Women's Suffrage

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-df84-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_766173