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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Women's Social and Political Union membership card and pledge

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

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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…
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