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This broadside advertises a women's suffrage event, where Anna Howard Shaw was scheduled to speak. Shaw was a prominent leader of the American women's suffrage movement.

Pennant in support of the women's rights movement

Cover lithograph image of the 4/10/1915 issue of Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. The subtitle is "Lucy Stone's Vision". Lucy Stone was a prominent suffragist and abolitionist.

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

Published letter stating the writer's belief that the violence enacted by suffragettes has harmed and set back the movement

Button in support of the women's rights movement

Front page of Women's Political World newspaper (Vol.1 No.1), featuring a political cartoon.

Women's Social and Political Union membership card and pledge

Poster showing the forced feeding of women in prison as a response to suffragettes going on hunger strikes

Poster depicting the "Cat and Mouse Act", a nickname for a law that allowed the early release of prisoners whose health had declined (in this case, arrested suffragettes protesting with hunger strikes), with the understanding that they would serve…