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  RARE COLLAPSIBLE DRINKING CUP MADE FOR THE EMPIRE STATE (NEW YORK) CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, ORGANIZED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 1915

Available: Sold
Frame Size (H x L): Approx. 8.5" x 9"
Flag Size (H x L): 4.5" x 4"
Description....:
Rare, collapsible drinking cup, made for the Empire State Campaign Committee, the organization led by suffragette, Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947). Printed in navy blue on a white ground, the central image includes a rising sun with the date “1915” inside, with the words “Votes for Women” arched above. Along the top and continuing below is the message: “Drink to the Success of the Empire State Campaign,” which was a bit premature. In that year a huge push was made toward a positive conclusion and the issue actually came to vote in New York State. On November 2nd of that year, however, male voters defeated a referendum that would have given all women of the state the right to vote. New York was among four eastern states where the issue was presented to voters, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. It was unsuccessful in all four.

Brief History of Carrie Chapman Catt:
Born in Wisconsin, Catt attended Iowa State College and joined the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association in 1887. She soon became an officer and in 1890 became a delegate to the newly formed National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), of which Susan B. Anthony was president. Catt became a driving force almost immediately, speaking at the 1890 NASWA annual meeting, and in 1892 was asked by Anthony to address Congress on the proposed woman’s suffrage amendment.

Catt was chosen as head of field organizing for the NAWSA and in 1900 was elected to succeed Anthony as president. She served for 4 years, resigning in order that she may care for her dying husband. In 1904 she founded the International Woman Suffrage Organization, serving as its president until 1923 and afterwards, until her death, as its honorary president. Catt's leadership the suffrage movement focused on success in at least one eastern state, because previous to 1917, only western territories and states had granted women suffrage. Catt felt that state decisions were critical to success on the national level. In 1915 she was once again elected president of the NASWA and served until 1920, when the 1919 national victory, by way of popular vote, was ratified into law by way of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Success of the Suffrage movement came on the coattails of the U.K., where women obtained the right to vote in 1918.

Mounting: The antique, paint-decorated and gilded American molding dates to the period between 1840 and 1870. This is a pressure-mount between 100% cotton twill, black in color, that has been washed and treated for colorfastness, and U.V. protective Plexiglas.

Condition: There is minor to modest soiling and very minor transfer of the blue ink.
Collector Level: Intermediate-Level Collectors and Special Gifts
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Earliest Date of Origin: 1915
Latest Date of Origin: 1915
State/Affiliation: New York
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Price: SOLD
 

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