Woman Suffrage Votes Sash
name: label: associated institution
content: Women's Political Union
notes: label: Description
content: Sash worn by supporters of woman suffrage.
label: Description
content: Sashes were worn for rallies, parades, and street speaking. The colors and the small button identify the wearer as a member of the Women's Political Union. The WPU (formerly the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women) was formed by Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to bring working class women into the suffrage movement. The WPU was responsible for holding the first large suffrage march in the United States (in New York in 1910).
label: Description
content: “Votes for Women” was one of the most popular and recognizable slogans used by members of the woman’s suffrage movement.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
label: general subject association
content: Women's History
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0455.10
label: accession number
content: 1983.0455
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0455.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sash
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 69 cm; 3 15/16 in x 27 5/32 in