I am opposed to woman’s suffrage

Pledge card, U.S.A. circa 1910, 77 x 126 mm, with the name and street name of an anti-suffragette, fine condition.

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote in the United States. Both pro- and anti-suffrage movements were politically active in the lead up to the passing of the amendment, with pledge cards collected at meetings and rallies (from both men and women), the anti-suffrage movement promoting the message ‘Government work is men’s work’.