Women -- Suffrage

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Small metal round pin (5/8”) With blue border with white stars and a round white center with a red ‘36’ in the center. The 36 represents the 36th state needed to ratify the 19th amendment (women’s suffrage). Manufactured by Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, NJ (incorporated in 1892). 1 pc.

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Poster celebrating the 75th anniversary of woman suffrage, 1920-1995. Color 18 x 24”.

Scope and Contents Abby Crawford Milton Papers--include family material, some suffrage and temperance material. Originally recd. in 13 boxes (now in 11 boxes): 1. Abby Milton--her books, scrapbooks, clippings, certificates, 100th birthday. Boxes 2&3 contained oversize ca. WWII scrapbook and flat package of Q photographs were removed from their boxes. 4. Frances Milton Walker watercolor sketchbooks. 5. Milton Papers, 1880s-1940s. Scrapbooks-Mss. vols. VII. 6. Milton Family correspondence, 1890s-1940s. 7....

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March 2020 issue of Cobblestone Magazine with the theme “Women Get the Vote!” McClung images of Harry T. Burn and Febb Burn used on page 32.

Scope and Contents Includes legal records; material about women’s suffrage, 1920. + One folder of 6 photographs (5 pcs.--one 8x10 has 2 images on it) of Harry T. Burn and a set of files on the CBS television story (The American Parade) featuring Mr. Burn in 1974. 26 photographs of Rockwood, taken by Steinwehr. One box of Harry T. Burn suffrage material, including letter from Mama, telegrams, and related material. Removed from that box and placed in a separate box (Nov....

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Biographical sketch on the life of Lizzie Crozier French, Knoxville, Tenn. Primarily about her work with women’s causes. 14 handwritten pages. Unsigned. Ca. late 1890s.

Scope and Contents Lizzie Crozier French papers and scrapbooks. Folder dated Nov. 20,1885-Aug. 1895 contains the original minutes of the first Ossoli Circle club meeting. The McClung Historical Collection owns a small collection of Lizzie Crozier French material, which includes her involvement with the women's suffrage movement. The collection includes a scrapbook related to suffrage activities, primarily made up of newspaper clippings with some ephemeral items. Many of the clippings are undated and most do...

Scope and Contents The Mrs. Hugh L. White Papers consist of six boxes of journals, correspondence, 1881-1929, ephemera, clippings, financial statements, and photographs. Correspondents include Mr. Hugh L. (Bud) White, Mrs. Hugh L. White (maiden name Eliza Shaut), Mrs. E. M. (Nellie) Dunham, Hugh L. White, Jr., Jane White, Elizabeth White, Wallace [Pinson?], Lillian Dodge Godfrey and others. Subjects include some mention of women’s suffrage but the papers are primarily personal in nature. One undated, unsigned...

Scope and Contents Ossoli Circle scrapbook on the 75th anniversary of women’s suffrage and the Tennessee Suffrage Woman’s Memorial (in Market Square, Knoxville, Tenn.) , 2006. (scrapbooks). Includes photographs, clippings, printed material, cloth sash with ‘Vote for Women’ on it. Inside cover contains several autographs and comments. Scrapbook compiled by Wanda Sobieski and given to Ossoli Circle. (Cloth sash not in box 6/2018). Also included: invitation to GFWC Ossoli Circle’s 125th anniversary celebration...

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“Suffrage Wins But Faces New Fight,” Cleveland Plain Dealer (August 19, 1920)(newspaper with banner headline for suffrage vote in Tennessee)

Scope and Contents Eight round pinback buttons / pins. Sizes from 1/2” to 1.25” Two with yellow backgrounds say “Votes for Women.” One with blue background and yellow stars says “Votes for Women.” One with blue border, copper or gold mountains and sun with rays says “Votes for Women” and “1915.” Small dark blue pin with gold writing says “Votes for Women 1915.” Pin with gold border and purple (or dark blue), green, and ivory sections says “Votes for Women.” Small dark blue pin with gold lettering says...