Good government needs all the people, women as well as men
[Image: Two women are standing next to a large globe and holding scales. Text in between them reads, “Good government needs all the people, women as well as men. Louis Brandeis.” Text at the bottom reads, “Copyrights 1913, by Ohio Equal Franchise Association 201 Durner Building, Cincinnati.”]
<span>Art Academy, Cincinnati Views, </span><a href="http://www.cincinnativiews.net/art_academy.htm">http://www.cincinnativiews.net/art_academy.htm</a><br /><br />Kenneth Florey, American Women Suffrage Postcards: A Study and Catalog (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015).
Cincinnati: Ohio Equal Franchise Association
1913
Votes for Women, Ohio Next!
Wyoming
Colorado Washington
Utah Idaho
California
Votes for Women
Ohio Next!
[Image: This postcard urges support for a coming (unsuccessful) campaign by the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association to ratify a state constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote in 1912. Ohio women could not vote until the state ratified the nineteenth amendment in 1919. The six stars represent the first six states to grant full suffrage: Wyoming (1869), Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), and California (1911).
The National American Woman Suffrage Association began a postcard campaign in 1910, partly to raise awareness of the cause and partly as a fundraiser. The cards could be funny, serious, or sentimental. Some employed powerful patriotic symbols and logical arguments to make their case for woman’s right to vote.]
Marjorie Longwell, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Museums, <a href="https://www.si.edu/object/postcard-votes-women-ohio-next:nmah_1444287">https://www.si.edu/object/postcard-votes-women-ohio-next:nmah_1444287</a>
1912
Votes for Women a Success: North America Proves it
The Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba extended full suffrage to their women in 1916. Ontario gave them full suffrage in March, 1917.
How long will the Republic of the United States lag behind the Monarchy of Canada?
[Image: This is picture postcard sent by Elizabeth Potter to Mrs. B.J. Cunningham. On the picture side of the postcard is a color-coded map of the states in the US that either supported male suffrage only (yellow states) or total suffrage including suffrage for women (black states), saying that Canada supported total suffrage completely and when will the US do the same in all states? On the back side is a note from Elizabeth Potter to Mrs. B.J. Cunningham, saying that she is at Lake Placid and should be ready to work more on the Federal Amendment in October.]
Elizabeth H. Potter
Minnie Fisher Cunningham Papers, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston Digital Library, <a href="http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll33/item/1325/show/1323" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll33/item/1325/show/1323</a>
New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co.
1917
Let New York be Next
Let New York be Next: Let New York Be Next - Vote for the Woman Suffrage Amendment, November 6, 1917
[Image: The suffrage map on a postcard from the successful 1917 campaign for an amendment to the New York State Constitution granting full suffrage to women. It includes a statement that suffrage had been adopted in seven new states since January 1917, and therefore "Electoral votes from Woman Suffrage States increased from 91 to 172." The card bears an ink stamp saying it was "Sent you by Mrs. F.J. Curley Captain, 2nd (Your) Election District" and was likely a get-out-the-vote reminder.
For details on the origin and use of the suffrage map, see Notes for ID #1193 (Votes for Women a Success). For other similar maps, see Subject > Suffrage.]
<span>Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography, Cornel University Library Digital Collections, <a href="https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343438">https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343438</a></span>
New York: Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York
1917
Vote for Woman Suffrage
Women Vote in the White States – Why Not In Our State?
Walking the Berkshires, <a href="http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2006/10/with_the_free_l.html">http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2006/10/with_the_free_l.html</a><br /><br />Rose Gschwendtner Collection, in Kenneth Florey, <em>American Woman Suffrage Postcards: A Study and Catalog </em>(Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2015).
1916
LET OHIO WOMEN VOTE
Cornelia Cassady-Davis
Kenneth Florey's Woman Suffrage Memorabilia: <a href="http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/">http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/</a>
ca. 1915