Oct 27, 2026 - Nov 17, 2026
1.5" cello. Bastian Bros. back paper. Produced for a 25,000 person parade demonstration in Chicago, IL during the 1916 Republican National Convention. A rainy parade day did not discourage suffrage activists and the trivial dots on this button indicate this badge saw the historic actions of the day. Carrie Chapman Catt recalled reaction to the event in an article co-authored w/Nettie Rogers Shuler where they noted a GOP delegate visiting the women's suffrage headquarters describing what she saw- "I watched it from a window where men stood eight and ten deep and many had tears in their eyes. They said, 'these women really mean it and we might as well make up our minds to it. Young and old, these women really meant it.' As a young girl passed in the procession, a man on the curbstone called, You ought to be home with your mother. And she called back, Mother is here, marching with me." Faint spots of toning at 1:00, 8:00. Above average condition than most. Exc.
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