Images of the Rhode Island General Assembly January 1920 session Act Extending the Right to Vote to Women Citizens.

Image of the Rhode Island General Assembly January 1920 session Woman Suffrage Resolution.

Image of the The Woman Citizen Monthly newsletter (Vol. 1 No. 1) published on February 15, 1905. The Woman Citizen Monthly newsletter was published monthly by the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association between 1905-1908.

Images of the Act by the Rhode Island General Assembly to incorporate the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association in 1892.

Image of a Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association membership ticket.

To the Honorable the General Assembly
of the State of Rhode Island
We, the undersigned, women of
Rhode Island, would respectfully represent,
That, being law abiding citizens of
said State, we are denied the elective
franchise,…

Images of the four page Act of the Rhode Island General Assembly which granted women the right to vote in Presidential and Vice Presidential elections.

Images of a meeting notice for the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association.

Woman Suffrage

He Wanted the Apple.

Editor Telegram:
Isn't there a good deal of nonsense in the
talk about suffrage being such a "burden" that
we ought not to impose it on women? Men
do not regard it so in their own case, I notice. …

Woman Suffrage

Henry George on Woman Suffrage.

Henry George, in a recent number of his
paper, the Standard, says in reply to an ob-
jector:

The natural right of a woman to vote is just
as clear as that of a man, and rests on the…

Women voters would have used this machine to cast their first ballots. First used in the election of 1900, mechanical defects made voting returns inaccurate, and their use was subsequently banned in March of 1901. There was a repeal of this ban in…