Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site
At the entrance, a mannequin is dressed in a delicate white dress and matching hat. A bright yellow sash hangs across her chest with three words printed across it — “Votes for Women.”
Almost 100 years ago, on Aug. 26, 1920, Hoosier women won the right to vote. The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site is celebrating the landmark 100-year anniversary with a new exhibit, “Votes for Women: The Road to Suffrage.” The exhibit, which houses items carefully chosen from the museum’s collection of more than 10,000 artifacts, documents the suffragists’ decades-long fight to achieve their right to vote.
“It was a long road to suffrage,” said Jennifer Capps, vice president of curatorship and exhibition. “Finally achieving that was something to be celebrated and should still be celebrated today.”
Among the artifacts are issues of the Suffragist magazine and a print of “The Woman’s Bible” by suffragist and abolitionist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The words “Votes for Women” are printed on campaign merchandise including banners, flags and ribbons but also on cups, playing cards, mugs, plates, saucers, toys, stamps, fans, pencils, dolls, pins, and even stockings.
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