Description: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, who served in the Ohio state legislature (1848-1850) and in the United States House of Representatives (1861–1863). Riddle was also a prominent abolitionist involved with the defense of the Oberlin Rescuers in 1859, and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, notable for his speech titled "The right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution," given during a suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS510_B01F77_Riddle
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Suffrage -- Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, who served in the Ohio state legislature (1848-1850) and in the United States House of Representatives (1861–1863). Riddle was also a prominent abolitionist involved with the defense of the Oberlin Rescuers in 1859, and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, notable for his speech titled "The right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution," given during a suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05194
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Suffrage -- Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: A parade of suffragists campaigning for women's right to vote in Columbus, Ohio, July 30, 1914. Ohio ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women on June 16, 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00706
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Suffrage -- Ohio; Social movements; Activism
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a political cartoon illustrating the adoption of an amendment to the Ohio Constitution for women's suffrage by the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1912. Ohio voters defeated the amendment. On June 16, 1919 Ohio became the fifth state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01151
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Political cartoons
 

Description: Photograph showing the South Newbury Union Chapel, a noted site in suffrage history where a small group of women illegally cast ballots in a local election in 1871, becoming the first female voters in Ohio's history. The chapel was originally constructed in 1858 after future president James A. Garfield, then a teacher at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, was denied permission to speak at a nearby Congregational Church due to potentially controversial subject matter. The Women’s Suffrage and Political Club would be organized at the chapel in 1874--the second such organization in Ohio and one of the earliest in the country--and it was also used as a speaking venue for suffrage activists including Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Ellen Munn and Harriet Taylor Upton. This item comes from the Frances Jennings Casement Papers, a manuscript collection comprised of letters and association records related to the founding and leadership of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. Casement (1840-1928) was born in Painesville, Ohio, and graduated from Painesville Academy and Willoughby Female Seminary. Her father, Charles Casement, supported abolition and women's suffrage and encouraged Frances to be active in social causes. Frances Casement established the Painesville Equal Rights Association in 1883, and shortly after became involved in the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, serving as its president from 1885 to 1888. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS510_B01F77_UnionChapel
Subjects: Ohio Women; Civil Liberties; Suffrage; Suffragists; Social movements; Chapels -- Ohio;
Places: South Newbury (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harriet Taylor Upton speaking at the Ohio Statehouse before a large crowd, Columbus, Ohio, 1914. Harriet Taylor Upton was born on December 17, 1853, in Ravenna, Ohio. She emerged as a leading women's rights advocate by the early 1890s, and was the first woman to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03862
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Women's rights; Upton, Harriet Taylor; Suffrage--Ohio; Suffragists
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a group of members of the League of Women Voters of Ohio before a 1921 charter election. The League of Women Voters was first formed at the national level in early 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Soon, additional leagues began to form at the state and local level, with the League of Women Voters of Ohio being organized in May 1920 in Columbus. The League was first formed to empower women to use their newfound right to vote, and today its primary purpose remains citizen education. To this goal, it supports voter registration efforts, provides information on candidates and issues, sponsors debates and offers publications on public policy and voter engagement topics. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS354_B10_LWVO_1921CharterElection
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; League of Women Voters of Ohio; Political campaigns; Elections
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio);
 

Description: This is a portrait of a well-dressed young woman sitting in front of an American flag which bears the images of President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Handwriting on the negative appears to identify the woman as Miss Rachel Riddle. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed “Ewing Brothers” and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06259
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Women Suffrage; Political campaigns; Political posters; Flags--United States; McKinley, William, 1843- 1901
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Warren G. Harding talking to a woman wearing a sash, probably a suffragist, on the front porch of his home in Marion, Ohio. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P04_001
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Presidential campaigns; Presidential candidates; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Suffrage
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harriet Taylor Upton was born in 1853 in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1880, her father, Judge Ezra B. Taylor, was elected as a Republican representative to Congress. Harriet accompanied her widowed father to Washington, D.C., where she served as his hostess and companion. In Washington, she met George Upton and they were married in 1884. While living in Washington, Upton became involved in the women's suffrage movement. In 1890, she joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was elected treasurer in 1894, an office she held until 1910. Upton also served as president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association from 1899 to 1908 and again from 1911 to 1920. A life-long member of the Republican Party, Upton became the first woman to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee, in 1920. She ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1926. Harriet Taylor Upton died in 1945 in Pasadena, California, at the age of 90. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC2850
Subjects: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Suffrage--Ohio; Suffragists; Social reformers
Places: Ravenna (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio); Washington (District of Columbia);
 

Description: Large group of suffragists with "Votes for Women" pennants, ca. 1910-1919. A number of the women are identified on the back of the photograph, including Alison Smith (second from left); Corrine Richter (third from left); Cecile Moon (fourth from left); Louise B. Westwater (fifth from left); Belle C. Kelton (seventh from left); Leila McDonald (ninth from left); Mary Brandon (tenth from left) and Janet McDonald (eleventh from left). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00073
Subjects: Suffrage -- Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women social reformers - Ohio;
 

Description: This photograph shows a suffragist posed on a horse dressed as a mythical goddess during a women's suffrage parade, 1914. On the back of the photograph, a written note identifies the woman as Matilda Spence of Painesville, Ohio. However, coverage of the parade in The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper on October 4, 1914, identifies the woman as Mrs. William Reed Taylor (Katherine Kelley Taylor) who was from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00075
Subjects: Suffrage -- Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women social reformers - Ohio; Cleveland (Ohio)
Places: Painesville (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)