IIIF
Present Suffrage Status Item Info
- Title:
- Present Suffrage Status
- Creator:
- Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
- Date Created:
- 1913
- Description:
- In the early years of the twentieth century, both the movements for Woman Suffrage and for Temperance and Prohibition used persuasive maps in an attempt to drum up support for their respective causes at local, state and national levels. This technique became even more popular in 1913 and beyond, when both groups began pursuing federal legislation in the form of constitutional amendments in support of these reform movements. There was a good deal of overlap in the causes–many women who were advocating for their right to vote supported prohibition (the legislation of alcohol purchase and consumption), and many members of the prohibition movement believed that women should have the right to vote. Women were frequently involved in causes of moral and social reform at the turn-of-the-century, and this “moral mapping” (there are several examples in this exhibit) was one of many techniques they embraced to advance their movements.
- Subjects:
- Suffrage
- Source:
- Osher Map Library Collection
- Source Identifier:
- 53771
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Present Suffrage Status", Osher Map Library Collection, Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine
- Repository Link:
- https://oshermaps.org/map/53771.0001
Rights
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/