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A postcard depicting an editorial cartoon with the title "Why Not Let the Mother Vote?" The postcard was sent to Mr. and Mrs. F. Leahy of Chicago, Illinois. It was sent one day before the election to determine if the women of Illinois would receive…

McCulloch sent a letter to all Illinois editors saying that the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association sent letters to the Democratic and Republican candidates asking their opinions on women's suffrage. She then published a list of candidates who were…

This pamphlet, edited by Catharine McCulloch of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, is a timeline of various important events in the Illinois women's rights movement.

A map of Evanston noting the location of Rest Cottage, one of the safe work spaces of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union . Note: it is the same location as the Frances E. Willard house.

A membership pledge from Mrs. A.M. Blunt to the Evanston Political Equality League.

Card with list of EPEL officers, EPEL constitution, and space for membership pledge on reverse side.

Treasurer's book of EPEL, 1904-1907. Includes records of dues-paying members and disbursements.

Pamphlet with printed versions of two winning essays in EPEL's annual suffrage essay contests for high school students. Aleck G. Whitfield won first prize and Ethel Elizabeth MacDonald took second with essays on the topic "Should Chicago Women Have…

Photograph of Lenna Lowe Yost, President of West Virginia WCTU and Washington Correspondent for the Union Signal

A pamphlet from the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association encouraging women's suffrage in Illinois in the year 1903.