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One of two postcards sent to Fanny Radcliffe during her stay at London Holloway Prison for her participation in a stone-throwing protest

Postcard depicting the personification of prejudice holding a woman back from the personification of justice

Modern sign for Washington Park, a historically-Black park in Atlanta

Many suffrage parades were embellished with pageants, or mini dramas and tableaus. During the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. the procession came to a stop in front of the U.S. Treasury building and more than 100 women performed “The…

On March 3, 1913 Inez Milholland, dressed in white and sitting astride a white horse, led the march for women’s suffrage in Washington, D.C. A suffragist, labor lawyer, and war correspondent Milholland was a champion for many causes. She was a…

Postcard of one of the secondary locations of Frankie Welch of Virginia, the Washington, D.C. location. Daughter Genie Welch is in the foreground and Frankie Welch is in the midground

Postcard of the main Alexandria location of Frankie Welch of Virginia. Features Genie Welch in the foreground and Frankie Welch in the background

Dredge boats brought gravel up from river beds either by shovel, crane, or continuous ladder-bucket elevators. The tailings, or mud-like waste, was discharged back into the water or piled on the bank. 

Postcard showing the courthouse of the town of Dahlonega, Georgia. The courthouse was completed in 1836. Developed around the time of the Georgia Gold Rush, it was named the Lumpkin County seat in 1833.

This anti-suffrage image mocks women for following the women's suffrage movement by showing an unhappy husband and child.