Suffrage Wagon News Channel

There’s very little film footage from the suffrage movement, so this 80-second clip from the National Film Preservation Foundation is a treasure. It’s entitled “On to Washington.” The occasion is the suffrage hiking march with Rosalie Jones and Elisabeth Freeman and others who headed south to Washington, DC to join the suffrage parade scheduled to…

Grandmother Edna Kearns took the “Spirit of 1776” wagon to Long Beach in July of 1913. When she drove the suffrage campaign wagon onto the beach, it caused quite a stir, not to mention when she stood in the waves and wore a yellow bathing cap and a yellow sash while holding signs that were…

There’s a new audio feature on Votes for Women Salon, a special feature of Suffrage Wagon News Channel: an interview with Antonia Petrash who speaks about her upcoming book about the Long Island suffrage movement. The book is expected to be published in 2013 by  The History Press. Grandmother Edna Kearns will be featured in…

Grandmother Edna Kearns hitched a horse to her “Spirit of 1776” wagon and headed to the shore at Long Beach on Long Island. She took two outfits with her: a bathing suit and a white dress with a “Votes for Women” sash. What a crowd on the beach that day, and the group of women…

Read at the feet of the Statue of Liberty on July 4, 1915 To the Men of New York, We therefore appeal to you, in the name of justice and fair play, for relief from the intolerable position in which we have been placed. We protest that no Government is just which taxes and governs…

The suffrage movement is responsible for a great deal, but it never to my knowledge was it linked to the development of the electric vibrator. Facts are completely irrelevant in the film by Tanya Wexler, “Hysteria,” that’s admittedly tongue in cheek when dealing with Victorian attitudes about women and sexuality. Perhaps the imaged link between…

Katherine Pfeffer Pross is an artist and painter from Seneca Falls, New York who considers herself “intensely concerned about equal rights and peace in the world.” She says: “I create works that are thought provoking with messages of inspiration and enlightenment.” One of her favorite movies is “Iron Jawed Angels.” In this painting Pross features…

Oregon’s suffrage centennial has some novel programs, such as the traveling sash that’s photographed as it moves around the state (called “Follow the Sash”). A sash is available for $15 from the Oregon Women’s History Consortium. The centennial web site, “Century of Action,” has historical documents, essays, news, events, and suffrage history. Glencoe Elementary Suffrage Singers are shown above…

Nine minute video about the history of women voting in Canada. Plans for a suffragette statue in Australia. Click here. New Zealand women plan their 120th anniversary of Votes for Women. Online book about woman suffrage in Mexico. Canada’s extraordinary suffragists. If you like news and stories of the suffrage movement, subscribe.

Former Oregon governor Barbara Roberts, center, with LuAnn Trotebas, left, and Alyce Cornyn-Selby, right, from the National Hat Museum, wearing vintage 1912 hats at a Oregon 2012 suffrage centennial event. Photos courtesy of Oregon Women’s History Consortium, Century of Action project. Photos by Andie Petkus. The story of suffrage is inching across the nation. The…