Object Details
- Description
- Button worn by supporters of woman suffrage. This button’s 12 stars represent the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made: Wyoming (1869), Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), California (1911), Kansas, Oregon and Arizona (all 1912), Montana and Nevada (1914).
- “Votes for Women” was one of the most popular and recognizable slogans used by members of the woman’s suffrage movement.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 1 in x 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm x .635 cm
- Object Name
- button
