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Portrait of a Girl and her Dog in a Grape Arbor
Attributed to Susan Catherine Moore, this painting depicts a young girl of about five, in a black dress. The girl appears to be very serious, with a grave expression on her face and a corset around her waist. This shows the standards that women and even young girls of the time were expected to uphold, standards of seriousness and formality. They were expected to be beautiful, but silent and serious. Location: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. -
Susan B. Anthony / Elizabeth Cady Stanton form National Women Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution. -
Women's Suffrage in Wyoming Territory
The territory of Wyoming passes the first women's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory. -
NASWA formed
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. -
Colorado becomes first state to grant women suffrage
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National Women's Trade Union League established
The National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) is established to advocate for improved wages and working conditions for women. -
Handicapped
Duncan Grant. This poster shows a strong working woman trying to row her lifeboat in the stormy seas representing society, while a man in a sailboat titled "Votes" easily sails atop the raging waves without having to work hard to row the boat. The purpose of this image was to create parallels in the working man's mind between suffragists and workers, that work was not a glamourous activity but a necessary aspect of the woman's life. -
To the Male Citizen / If This is Womanly - Why Not This?
This cartoon by Mary Ellen Sigsbee depicts a woman hard at work scrubbing the floor while men around her walk by, disregarding her presence in the first image and in the second image depicts a woman in a position of authority supervising civil workers. The image supported the right of women to engage in civil professions and occupations, especially in supervisory capacities. -
We Want the Vote
This anti-suffrage poster made for the NLOWS (National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage) depicts the image of women (particularly suffragettes) that the organization wanted the public to see all women as so as to protect male-only voting and stop women's suffrage, a stereotype that suffragettes were unfeminine and hysterical. They hoped that the creation of these stereotypes would strengthen their cause. -
The Awakening
This poster by Henry Mayer is an allegorical representation of the suffrage cause striding across the western states where women already had the right to vote, toward the east, where women are reaching out to her. -
Women gain suffrage in the United States
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One of Life's Little Ironies
This anonymous cartoon image depicts a woman who is clearly a full-time mother, and Uncle Sam at her door taking a census. On the census paper, Uncle Sam has written "none" for the woman's occupation. This cartoon is a comment on Uncle Sam's low opinion of women's work. -
Rosie the Riveter
Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Rosie the Riveter is commonly used as a symbol of feminism and women's economic power. Location: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. -
Fist
This picture, the logo of the Guerrilla Girls, represents the movement to fight back agianst the fact that women artists don't get the recognition that they deserve. The Guerrilla Girls' mission has been to fight for the recognition that female artists deserve. -
Poster
At the time that this poster was created, less than 3% of the artists featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art were women, but over 83% of the nude artworks in the musum were of women. This piece is a part of the movement to doubly fight back against the oppression of female artists and their lack of recognition and against the rampant sexualization of women.
