{"id":1523,"date":"2019-07-30T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=1523"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:00:54","slug":"suffrage-collection-1884-1987","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/collections\/collections-a-z\/suffrage-collection-1884-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffrage collection, 1884-1987"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/SuffrageCollection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Full finding aid (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collection Scope and Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection contains an 1884 printed letter which accompanied a circulating petition, enlisting signatures to support municipal woman suffrage, signed by five women, including Julia Ward Howe, working on behalf of the Massachusetts Women&#8217;s Suffrage Association, a local branch of the American Woman Suffrage Association; a circa 1920 postcard with images of three suffrage leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Lucretia Mott; a photocopy of a 1987 article in <em>Reviews in American History<\/em>, by Carol Lasser, providing a retrospective on the 1959 book by Eleanor Flexner, <em>Century of Struggle<\/em>, a landmark work on woman&#8217;s rights movement in America; a pennant; a <em>New York Sun<\/em> article about Lucy Stone; a 1923 article from the Boston traveler about a woman&#8217;s right to keep her maiden name; a 1917 <em>New York Times<\/em> article about Maine&#8217;s suffrage vote; a photograph of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; a 1902 letter and questionnaire from the Maine Woman Suffrage Association; an 1893 woman suffrage leaflet; and a 1917 anti-suffrage booklet titled <em>The Case Against Woman Suffrage<\/em> published by the Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection-category":[],"class_list":["post-1523","collection","type-collection","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/1523\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection-category?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}