Votes for Women

The Struggle for Women's Suffrage

Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress

These images were selected to meet requests regularly received by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. They include portraits of women who campaigned for women's rights, particularly voting rights, and suffrage campaign scenes, cartoons, and ephemera. An accompanying women's suffrage timeline features many of the images.

Portraits

Susan B. Anthony LC-USZ62-23933	Alice Stone Blackwell LC-USZ62-93550	Paulina W. Davis LC-USZ62-37939	Abigail Scott Duniway LC-USZ61-787
Julia Ward Howe LC-USZ62-53518	Mary A. Livermore LC-USZ62-93553	Belva Lockwood LC-BH834-55	Lucretia Mott LC-USZ62-42559
Maud Wood Park LC-USZ62-93551	Alice Paul LC-USZ62-20176	Anna Howard Shaw LC-USZ62-20177	Elizabeth Cady Stanton and daughter, Harriot LC-USZ62-48965
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony LC-USZ61-791	Lucy Stone LC-USZ62-29701	Mary Church Terrell LC-USZ62-54722	Sojourner Truth LC-USZ62-119343
Frances Willard LC-USZ61-790	Carrie Chapman Catt LC-USZ62-28475

Suffrage Campaign Scenes, Cartoons, and Ephemera

"The apotheosis of suffrage" (1896) LC-USZ62-10862	"Election Day!" (1909) LC-USZ62-51821	"National Anti-Suffrage Association" (1911?) LC-USZ62-25338	"Woman suffrage headquarters ... Cleveland" (1912) LC-USZ62-30776
Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912 LC-USZ62-10845	Suffragists marching, probably in New York City in 1913 LC-B201-3643-12	"Official program ... Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913" LC-USZC4-2996	"Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C." (1913) LC-USZ62-22262
"Suffrage parade 3/13/13" (Inez Boissevain, Washington, D.C.) LC-USZ62-77359	German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of Columbia (1913) LC-USZ62-70382	Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 1913 LC-USZ62-93552	"Breaking in suffrage speakers..." (1913) LC-B2-2846-10
"Help us to win the vote" (1914) LC-USZ62-23622	"Suffrage campaign days in New Jersey" (between 1914 and 1920) LC-USZ62-7089	"The first picket line - College day in the picket line" (1917) LC-USZ62-31799	Three suffragists casting votes in New York City(?) (ca. 1917) LC-USZ62-75334
"Stump speaking ..." (between 1915 and 1920?) LC-USZ62-7097	"Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Anthony Amendment ..." (1920) LC-USZ62-78691	Marble statue of three suffragists by Adelaide Johnson (1965) LC-USA7-27850

Rights Information

The images are presented for educational and research purposes. The Library of Congress is unaware of any restrictions on the use of the images. However, patrons who plan to publish or otherwise distribute any of the images should be aware that determination regarding the appropriate use of an image ultimately rests with the patron. The Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission for use of the images. For further information, see "Copyright and Other Restrictions That Apply to Publication/Distribution of Images."

Finding Additional Images

• See another Prints and Photographs Division select list, "Pictorial Americana: Women's Rights"
• Search American Memory collections, including: Women of Protest and Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
• Search the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. For instance, see Thesaurus for Graphic Materials term Women's suffrage [view term - includes related terms and links to pictures]. Also try names of individuals active in the suffrage movement.

Selected Bibliography

Edgerly, Lois Stiles. Give Her This Day : a Daybook of Women's Words. Gardiner, Me: Tilbury House, 1990.

Franzen, Monika, and Nancy Ethiel, comp. Make Way! : 200 Years of American Women in Cartoons. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1988.

Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth, and Sarah Kurian. The ABC-CLIO Companion to Women's Progress in America. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 1994.

Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth, and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. Women's Suffrage in America : an Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992.

Hoffert, Sylvia D. When Hens Crow : the Woman's Rights Movements in Antebellum America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Lunardini, Christine A. Women's Rights. Social Issues in American History Series. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1996.

Sheppard, Alice. Cartooning for Suffrage. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Smith, Betsy Covington. Women Win the Vote. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Silver Burdett Press, 1989.

Sullivan, George. The Day the Women Got the Vote : a Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement. New York: Scholastic, 1994.

Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women : Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-14. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Weatherford, Doris. American Women's History. New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1994.

Additional general sources on the suffrage movement are listed in the bibliography that accompanies Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.

See also resources for teachers: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/suffrage-pictures/