Suffragists

Theodore Roosevelt addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on September 8, 1917, at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of Roosevelt and a frontal view shot from the rear of the crowd. A woman and a man appear on the porch behind Roosevelt. Immediately in front of the porch, a man who may be a reporter takes notes.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1917

Theodore Roosevelt asks Jane Addams to provide him with an explanation of an enclosed telegram that may pertain to Millicent Garrett Fawcett. He requests that Addams write a few articles on the progressive movement, especially as it relates to social justice for women and children.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-16

Theodore Roosevelt makes changes to the topics of an interview he is giving Vira Boarman Whitehouse, saying he thinks little of parades and does not wish to discuss his previous statements about people getting tired of him. Roosevelt also asks Whitehouse to determine which parts of one of his speeches she wants to use. He expresses pleasure at having met her one recent evening.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-18

Ambassador Reid sends an addition to “the bundle of gossip” he recently sent to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, noting that this dispatch is a bit more serious and more likely to interest President Roosevelt with his description of a number of political events, in addition to more social fare.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-01

President Roosevelt leaves his big stick and “my policies” book and runs away from a crowd of female suffragists holding a “Votes for Women” sign.

comments and context

Comments and Context

C. R. Macauley (later spelled MacAuley) was not the only political cartoonist or newspaper editorialist who criticized Theodore Roosevelt for opposing women’s suffrage while not supporting the voting rights of women, or failing to criticize Democratic politicians for opposing the franchise.

A woman wearing a large hat smokes a cigarette and gets a manicure from a man wearing a suit. Caption: In the era of the suffragette.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-10-19

Four aged, nude suffragists try to drag John Bull into a pool of water labeled “Woman Suffrage.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-04-23