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Person/Organization: Whitehouse, Florence Brooks

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Item 5474

Florence Brooks Whitehouse speech poster, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916-10-26 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 5472

Pro woman suffrage political cartoon, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 5471

Signing of Woman Suffrage Proclamation, Augusta, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917-02-23 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

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Debates Over Suffrage

While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote