Woman Suffrage Button, 1911
name: label: associated institution
content: Political Equality Association
notes: label: Description
content: Button worn by supporters of woman suffrage.
label: Description
content: This button uses an image popular with the suffrage movement -- the Herald. The angelic figure depicted with wings and a trumpet or a sword, was created and popularized by Sylvia Pankhurst during the British suffrage movement. It was picked up in the United States by woman suffrage organizations, in this case the Political Equality Association. The six stars on the herald’s flag represent the first six states to grant full suffrage: Wyoming (1869), Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), and California (1911).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.3024.41
label: nonaccession number
content: 1981.3024
label: catalog number
content: 1981.3024.41
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm