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Keywords: Woman suffrage

Historical Items

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Item 5490

Suffrage cartoon, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Ink on paper

Item 1151

Suffrage lecture announcement, Belfast, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Belfast Media: Ink on paper

Item 31257

Letter to suffrage organizations, Portland, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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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

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Protests

Throughout the history of the state, residents have protested, on paper or in the streets, to increase rights for various groups, to effect social change, to prevent social change, or to let their feelings be known about important issues.

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Overview & Introduction

"… to abolish slavery and the struggle for women's suffrage, engaged the nation's full attention. Passions ran high and the political…"

Site Pages

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"The organization was somewhat active in Bangor. This was one of the most popular organizations as it was a Maine chapter of the National Women's…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"/ by Mary Alden Hopkins. 1913.” Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection, Ann Lewis and Mike Sponder, May 2015…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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