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Grand Rapids Mich. Equal Franchise Club

GRAND RAPIDS MICH. EQUAL FRANCHISE CLUB

VOTES FOR WOMEN

[Image: The image appears to be a photograph in black and white. There is a cart being pulled by horses. There are women on the cart dressed in dresses. Behind this cart is a car. On the…

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O say, can you see what with eager delight

O say, can you see what with eager delight
And so proudly we hail, eyes with joy all abeaming?
'Tis our loved Suffrage flag, such a glorious sight
With its five beauteous stars mid the soft folds agleaming.
Named for Washington great is our Fifth…

Tags: American, Bravery, California, Colorado, Flag, Freedom, Idaho, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Stars, States of the Union, Suffrage, US flag, Utah, Washington, Wyoming

California putting the Sixth Star on the Woman Suffrage Flag

California putting the Sixth Star on the Woman Suffrage Flag.

[Image: This postcard celebrates the passage of full suffrage in California in 1911 by depicting the symbolic adding of that state’s star to a ssuffrage flag." California joined stars…

Tags: American, Appealing, APPEARANCE, California, CLASS, Classical, FASHION, Fashionable, Flag, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Stars, States of the Union, US flag, Woman