"Votes for Women" Pennant, Early 20th Century

Presented is a rare, early 20th century American “Votes for Women” pennant. The pennant field is yellow, with black printed block text. "Votes for Women" was one of the most frequently used slogans throughout the woman's suffrage movement and yellow was the National American Woman Suffrage Association's official color. The organization created a variety of pennants, banners, and sashes, similar to this example, to be used at rallies, marches, and protests. Often handmade, these pennants reflect the grassroots nature of the suffrage movement. But as a result of the temporal nature of parade and protest pennants, very few of these exist on the market today.  In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention of abolitionist activists in Seneca Falls, New York. As a result of that meeting, the document containing a demand for women’s suffrage, right to education, and right to employment was drafted. Modeled after the "Declaration of Independenc