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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Political postcard in support of a 1911 women's suffrage bill in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster for school elections on Tuesday, March 18th, and April 1st, 1919. After 1901, women in Wisconsin were able to vote in school elections, which was an... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Ada James (center) with supporters of the Suffrage movement. Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Wisconsin, ca. 1911-1912. |
| Date: | 09 06 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1920-11-28 |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Theodora Youmans (Mrs. Henry), President of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, holding a Wisconsin flag and standing in front of a paint... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of the leader of women's suffrage in Wisconsin, Ada James. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader in the women's suffrage movement, peace advocate, and first president of the League of Women Voters. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Katherine McCullough speaking to a small group of men in campaign for women's suffrage in Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Members of the Political Equality League in an early Ford automobile draped with bunting reading "Votes for Women." In the front seat is Mrs. B.C. Gudden. ... |
| Read about this Wisconsonite, whose leadership in the Women's Suffrage Movement helped Wisconsin become the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. |
| Date: | 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of women including Ada James (in checked dress at center) at the suffrage headquarters. A map of Wisconsin is hanging on the wall at right and anothe... |
| Provides a comprehensive summary of women's history in Wisconsin and contains primary sources from the 16th century to the early 21st century. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Katherine McCullough speaking to a group outdoors to campaign for women's suffrage in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of... |
| Date: | 02 1914 |
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| Description: | Thirteen children ranging from toddler-age to early elementary school-age are tended by several women in the playroom of a nursery run by the Kenosha Count... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Harriet Grimm speaking from a vehicle bearing a banner that reads, "votes for women." She is stopped in front of T.G. Mandt's wagon shop. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Governor John J. Blaine (left) shaking the hand of Mabel Raef Putnam surrounded by other women of who have come to see the governor sign the Women's Rights... |
| How Years of Failure led to Success |
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| Discover the history of suffrage in Wisconsin, and how the state became the first to ratify the 19th amendment after many difficulties. |
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| Description: | Tally sheet for the Assembly vote on David James's suffrage referendum bill. Photograph of the voting record of the Wisconsin Assembly on the measure to... |
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