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An article about the Evanston and Chicago women who argued for a women's suffrage amendment before the Illinois senate, and the amendment's passage in the senate.

Front cover of The Union Signal, a newspaper published by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, after the death of Frances E. Willard.

A tribute to Frances E. Willard by Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of the Frances E. Willard statue in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Congressional Building in 1905.

A book of selected quotations from the writings of Frances E. Willard.

A photo of Catharine Waugh McCulloch ca. 1881 taken in Rockford, Illinois.

A letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, a well-known suffragist, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCulloch congratulating them on their 50th wedding anniversary. In it, she says: "You have both made the world better than you found it, and have contributed the best…

McCulloch shows the relationship between Christianity and women's suffrage, and how to use the Bible and religion in favor of women's right to vote.

In Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Kansas in 1909, women were already allowed to vote in municipal elections. McCulloch wrote to the mayors of cities in these states asking their opinions about women's suffrage, and 140 mayors replied, most of…

To show that educators are in favor of woman suffrage, Catharine McCulloch asked Northwestern University faculty about their opinions on women's suffrage. Of the 80 that replied, 58 were in favor of women's suffrage, 9 noncommittal, and 13 against,…

In this pamphlet, McCulloch discusses the laws that have led to some degree of women's suffrage in Illinois, and she also discusses what remains in terms of women gaining full suffrage in the state.