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Women’s Vote

Posted inHistory

How New York Women, from Village Bohemians to Suffragettes, Won the Right to Vote

by Elena Goukassian March 22, 2018March 24, 2018

In 1917, female New Yorkers were finally invited to the polling booths. An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society argues this victory was largely due to the local activism of the bohemians of Greenwich Village.

Posted inArt

Rare Stash of British Suffrage Movement Posters Goes on Display

by Claire Voon February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

A mysterious package received by Cambridge University Library over a century ago has finally been opened and its contents contained a cache of posters from the early 20th-century.

Posted inArt

The British Pennies Defaced in Protest by a Suffragette

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 18, 2017April 21, 2017

A 1903 penny on view at the British Museum features the words “Votes for Women” letter-stamped by a suffragette over the face of the king.

Posted inArt

A Look at the Suffrage Movement With the UK’s First Female Photojournalist

by Laura C. Mallonee July 14, 2015

In 2009, a striking collection of some 2,000 black-and-white photographs went up for auction at Sotheby’s, but unfortunately it failed to sell.

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