I MARCH FOR FULL SUFFRAGE JUNE 7TH WILL YOU? RARE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$2,355.87
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 21, 2023 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1.5" w/Bastian Bros. Co. back paper. Produced for a 25,000 person parade demonstration in Chicago, IL during the 1916 Republican National Convention. A few scattered and faint dots of age in lower left quadrant, typical of this design. Otherwise only light surface wear. Exc. A rainy parade day did not discourage suffrage activists and the trivial dots on this button indicate this badge saw the historic actions of the day. A much above average example of this rare women's suffrage pin-back. John Hillhouse Collection.
Carrie Chapman Catt recalled reaction to the event in an article co-authored w/Nettie Rogers Shuler where they noted a GOP delegate visiting the women's suffrage headquarters describing what she saw- "I watched it from a window where men stood eight and ten deep and many had tears in their eyes. They said, 'these women really mean it and we might as well make up our minds to it. Young and old, these women really meant it.' As a young girl passed in the procession, a man on the curbstone called, You ought to be home with your mother. And she called back, Mother is here, marching with me."
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