July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Unusual ephemera, 6” x 7,” horizontal fold, printed both sides, light green paper, VG. The piece presents an argument in favor of women’s suffrage presented by Anne Fitzhugh Miller, President of Geneva Political Equality Club. She makes the argument before the US Congressional hearing on the subject, March 3, 1908. In essence Miller’s argument is “no taxation without representation.” She elaborates, “The law compels us to give, and you seem willing to take our ‘Something for Nothing.’ The something we give is what we are taxed; the nothing we get is the vote you withhold from us ...”
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