Conservative Suffragists & the NAWSA
The conservative but modern suffragist was educated. She saw herself participating in the professions and politics along side men. She conducted herself with traditional, ladylike dignity while taking care of her duties as a homemaker and mother. In her view, the vote and women fit each other and the meaning of woman was stretched to include the public act of voting.
The conservative NAWSA was the largest, oldest, and most important national suffrage organization in the United States. From headquarters, the NAWSA provided a structure for women across America to form state and local suffrage organizations. At all levels, NAWSA focused on one goal: obtaining votes for women.
The NAWSA helped women of the nation conceive a new social role for themselves through publishing The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. The Journal modeled for their readership an evolving American woman who was both traditional and modern, a woman and a voting citizen.
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The conservative NAWSA was the largest, oldest, and most important national suffrage organization in the United States. From headquarters, the NAWSA provided a structure for women across America to form state and local suffrage organizations. At all levels, NAWSA focused on one goal: obtaining votes for women.
The NAWSA helped women of the nation conceive a new social role for themselves through publishing The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. The Journal modeled for their readership an evolving American woman who was both traditional and modern, a woman and a voting citizen.
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NAWSA Headquarters
Tall and impressive, NAWSA national headquarters stands in New York City, the center of America's modern visual culture. |
Woman's Journal and Suffrage News
Educating American women to new societal roles, the Journal reports suffrage activities - with photographs and political cartoons. |
Votes for Women postcard; Color Illustration of
Woman Suffrage Headquarters Building,
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Nov.,1909. Library of Congress,
Rare Book and Special Collections
Division, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbcmil.scrp6011901
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Photograph of Front Page of Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. March 8, 1913. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02970
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1910 NAWSA Endorsed and Approved Postcard Set
The NAWSA published and circulated suffrage postcards identifying the states that had approved suffrage or mottos in support of extending the vote to women.This selection from: Palczewski, Catherine H. Postcard Archive. University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA.
NAWSA Broadsides
The NAWSA printed and circulated broadsides explaining reasons why women should vote.
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason
The NAWSA printed and circulated broadsides explaining reasons why women should vote.
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason. Printed Broadside. 1912. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, Library of Congress,Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.13200400
Justice. Equality. Why women want to vote. Women are citizens, and wish to do their civic duty ...
Justice. Equality. Why women want to vote. Women are citizens, and wish to do their civic duty ... Printed Broadside. Published by National American Woman Suffrage Association, New York, 1910. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.13200300
Women in the Home
Women in the Home Broadside. Circa 1910. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, New York. American Memory: An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.13200500
