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Title: Suffrage cartoon, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1917

Media: Ink on paper

Title: Suffrage lecture announcement, Belfast, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1915

Location: Belfast

Media:

Title: Maine woman suffrage petition, 1858

Contributed by: Maine State Archives

Date: 1858

Media: Black ink on paper

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Debates Over Suffrage

While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote