Front cover of Maryland Suffrage News, Volume 4, Number 8
Description
A cover of the once weekly publication Maryland Suffrage News (Vol. 4, No. 8) featuring an illustration by Mary Taylor depicting a woman slumped over a garment in a sewing machine. Beneath the image is written "No Vote Means No Remedy for Long Hours and Short Pay." Maryland Suffrage News was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1912 by Edith Houghton Hooker, through the voice of a pro-women's suffrage organization she founded called the Just Government League of Maryland. The first issue was published on April 6, 1912 and it remained in publication until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920.
Date
1915-05-22