Episode 7: Woman Suffrage Party Convention Booklet and Button

Inspired by a booklet and button from a 1910 Woman Suffrage Party Convention, this episode explores how a series of meetings at Carnegie Hall contributed to the evolving national dialogue on women’s rights across the United States. It’s a chapter that illustrates Carnegie Hall’s legacy not only as a music hall, but also as a center for political discourse, activism, and social change.

Guests include Marcia Chatelain, an expert on the Black suffragists’ movement and author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America; Coline Jenkins, an expert on the suffragists and both the great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and great-granddaughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch; and Susan Ware, author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. Members of Carnegie Hall’s Rose Archives and Museum team—including Director Kathleen Sabogal, Assistant Director Rob Hudson, and Founding Archivist and Historian Emeritus Gino Francesconi—are also featured.

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Release Date: July 25

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A pin with a blue border and yellow background, with four blue stars and text in red font that says, “Votes for Women”
Votes for Women pin, 1910
The back of the Votes for Women pin, with black print that says, “National Equipment Co. / Bim the Button Man / 12 E. 23rd St. / New York / Tel. 2477-Gram” and shows the Trade Council logo
Votes for Women pin (back), 1910
Black-and-white photograph of the Woman Suffrage Party Convention at Carnegie Hall in 1909.
Woman Suffrage Party Convention, October 29, 1909
Black-and-white photograph of suffragists Julia S. Hurlbut and Eunice Dana Brannan standing in front of the National Woman’s Party headquarters in New York City, holding banners announcing a mass meeting on January 4, 1918, at Carnegie Hall.
Suffragists Julia S. Hurlbut and Eunice Dana Brannan announcing a Carnegie Hall mass meeting to be held on January 4, 1918
Yellowed flyer announcing the Woman Suffrage Mass Meeting at Carnegie Hall on December 4, 1908
Notice of Woman Suffrage Mass Meeting at Carnegie Hall on December 4, 1908
Yellowed platform ticket for the Carnegie Hall meeting to honor Emmeline Pankhurst on October 25, 1909, signed by Anne Fitzhugh Miller.
Platform ticket for the Carnegie Hall meeting to honor Emmeline Pankhurst, October 25, 1909
Light-brown souvenir program with text in black that reads, “Second Annual Convention of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City; Friday, October 28, 1910 at 8 PM at Carnegie Hall”
Souvenir program from the Woman Suffrage Party Convention, October 28, 1910
Black-and-white photograph of Jane Addams and others holding a banner advertising a talk on the women’s suffrage movement at Carnegie Hall
Jane Addams and other suffragists advertising the National American Woman Suffrage Association Campaign meeting at Carnegie Hall in 1913

Photography: Hurlbut and Brannan courtesy of George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress; notice of Woman Suffrage Mass Meeting courtesy of Manuscript / Mixed Material in Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897–1911, Library of Congress; platform ticket courtesy of Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress; other images courtesy of the Carnegie Hall Rose Archives.
Podcast illustrations by Rob Wilson.
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