Featured Artifacts | The New York State Museum

Featured Artifacts

Below are a small selection of exciting artifacts and images included in the Votes for Women: Celebrating New York’s Suffrage Centennial exhibition.

Area 1: Agitate! Agitate!, 1776-1890

Bloomer Costume

Susan B. Anthony's Alligator Purse

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s writing desk

Sojourner Truth, framed carte de visite

Area 2: Winning the Vote, 1890-1920

Phyllis Wheatley Club, Buffalo, New York

Group of Harriet May Mills personal ribbons, 1898–1917

Women Suffrage Headquarters Auburn, New York During the 1915 campaign

Area 3: The Continuing Fight for Equal Rights, 1920-Present

Equal Rights Amendment, bracelet, ca.1975

New York State Women’s Democratic News, July 1925

NOW banner used by Rhoda Barney Jenkins, ca.1980

Campaign buttons for Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug, ca.1970