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Broadside equating the anatomical growth of women to the increasing number of states granting women full or partial suffrage.  The text below lays out the states that have already granted full or partial suffrage, those where a vote for suffrage was then open to the public, and those where it is before a state legislature. Explains that women’s votes already determine one-seventh of the electoral votes in presidential contests. This is the only such broadside to ever appear at auction.

[WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE]. Broadside. Boston: The Woman’s Journal, 1913. 12 x 19” 1 p. Printed with union bug on bottom (numbered 56), signifying that all aspects of the labor, from typesetting to finishing, were performed by union labor.

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Partial Transcript

“… States in America where women have full Suffrage: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska. … In Presidential elections the total Electoral Vote is 531 ; the Electoral Vote in the Equal Suffrage States is 55, or nearly one-seventh of the total. Countries where women have full suffrage : Australia, New Zealand, Burmah, Tasmania, Isle of Man, Norway, Finland, Bosnia…”  

Historical Background

Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent American suffragette. She was the first women college graduate from Massachusetts, having graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1847. She was also the wife of Henry Brown Blackwell and is the first known American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage. Stone worked with William Lloyd Garrison in the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts. During the Civil War, she helped found the Woman’s National Loyal League, fighting for full emancipation and voting rights for African-Americans. In 1870, Stone split with Susan B. Anthony and other suffragettes in 1870 by helping to organize the American Woman Suffrage Association, which advocated supporting the 15th Amendment (granting African-American male voting rights). That same year, Stone and her husband, with the help of Julia Ward Howe, founded The Woman’s Journal in Boston as the official publication of A.W.S.A. Three years prior to her death, Stone reconciled with Anthony, and the two rival organizations merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association (N.A.W.S.A.). Stone’s daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, edited The Woman’s Journal from 1883 until 1917.