From Miscellaneous collection of anti-suffrage material assembled by an officer of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1895-1921
A scrap of streamer in Blanche Castleman's yearbook from the October 17 suffrage parade in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, on the day of the parade, "antis" (those opposed to women's suffrage) prepared over 100,000 red "blushing" roses for…
Founded in 1907 by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later called the Women’s Political Union) worked to involve working-class women in the suffrage movement, particularly in New York. This card, printed sometime…
Edited by suffragist Mrs. L.O. Kleber, The Suffrage Cook Book (1915) was one of several culinary collaborations produced by suffragists to spread awareness and raise funds for the cause during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like…
Born in 1897 in Rochester, New York, Blanche Castleman ‘19 studied Library Science at Simmons, where she was a member of the Bulletin Board Committee, the Dormitory Council, and the Dramatics Society. She later became a librarian at Jefferson Junior…