1.25" tall bronze oval with horizontal brass bar pin on the back and name of maker "The Peacock Co. Prov R.I." Front shows classical female figure with young boy and young girl next to her and with an open book on her lap. In the spring of 1910 around a 1,000 suffragettes gathered in University City, an inter-ring suburb of St. Louis Missouri, to attend the first national convention of the American Woman's League which had been created in 1908 by E.G. Lewis to promote educational, cultural and business opportunity for women, and to expand his publishing business. He created a network of institutions and businesses that included a correspondence school, postal library, savings bank and social service institutions to aid the homeless and orphans. In 1911 the group was re-organized into the "American Woman's Republic" with 1884 Presidential candidate Mrs. Belva Lockwood serving as the groups Attorney General. The plan of founder Lewis was for the American Woman's Republic to continue as a separate but equal organization until women's suffrage was granted and then it could merge with the republic of the United States. Lewis' publication empire collapsed in 1912 but in Missouri the suffrage movement continued culminating in March, 1919 at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis with the founding of the national League Of Women Voters at the convention of the American Women's Suffrage Association. See related important suffrage items #110 a Lockwood autograph, #111 a rare suffrage postcard with autographs, and #112 a 1920 suffrage convention Delegate's badge. Scarce and Mint.