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"Selling" Suffrage : Fundraising through Memorabilia (tentative section title)

From the beginning, suffragists began creating ephemera -- sashes emblazoned with Votes for Women, buttons, ribbons, and flyers explaining the importance of the vote. As with all movements, these materials were often hand-made and initially for the use of suffragists in parades, demonstrations and the like. But by the turn of the 20th century, with the birth of mass advertising methods, suffrage political materials proliferated across an array of categories -- including everything from badges and buttons to toys and housewares -- and became an important tool not only for making the movement visible and expanding its outreach but also as a vehicle for raising the money needed to keep the movement going and to fund its various activities.

Suffragists used a variety of means to raise attention and funds for their movement, and at times the two were intertwined. Suffrage banners, pins, and phamplets were the earliest materials created