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Woman's Suffrage Banner. Hawthorne Suffrage League.
American, mid-19th-early 20th century.
Banner of sateen fabric, likely silk, constructed by folding the material in half along one long edge (not unlike an empty pillowcase), seams sewed with a sewing machine, with added rope trim embellishment along bottom edge; suspended from a metal rod inserted in a pocket for this purpose sewn along the top edge and suspended by a segment of the same rope trim; text painted by hand in black; (some tears and holes; appearance would likely improve with appropriate cleaning); 27 x 17 in.
The Woman's Suffrage movement was a grassroots phenomenon that saw women working together to make the case for the essential human rights they were denied, a disenfranchisement on innumerable points literally codified into the American system of government. This banner speaks to this history quite eloquently. Unfortunately, we cannot connect it to a particular geographic area. Towns named Hawthorne can be found in many states, including California, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin.
