Exhibit Specifications
Petticoat Patriots: How Michigan Women Won the Vote
Panels:
8
5
2
1
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Text panels, measuring 65" H x 39.5" W
Text panels, measuring 48" H x 32" W
Text panels, measuring 48" H x 19" W
Text panels, measuring 26" H x 54" W
Timeline panel, measuring 84" H x 48" W
Sponsor panel, measuring 48” H x 19” W
Interactive Elements:
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Voting booth with “Vote Here” sign and ballot box, 54” H x 22” D x 22” W
Visitor sticky-note comment board, 39” H x 27” W
Suffragist Honor Roll write-in panels, measuring 48" H x 19" W
Panel Descriptions: Panels are organized chronologically
Petticoat Patriots: How Michigan Women Won the Vote (65” H x 39.5” W)
Introductory panel with images of Anna Howard Shaw and Michigan members of the National Women’s Party
Searching for a Beginning (65” H x 39.5” W)
Abolitionist and Quakers beginning to question women’s rights with images of Laura Smith Haviland, Eliza
Seaman Leggett, and Sojourner Truth
The First Women’s Rights Convention (48” H x 19” W)
Seneca Falls, New York Convention with images Catherine Ann Fish Stebbins & Ernestine L. Rose
Prelude to a War (48” H x 32” W)
The question of women’s suffrage, black suffrage, or universal suffrage with broadside image of “Panteletts”
cartoon
The Civil War (48” H x 19” W)
Suspension of women’s rights work during the Civil War, 13th-15th Amendments, with image of Harper’s Weekly
illustration of celebration of the 13th Amendment in the U.S. House of Congress
A National Schism (48” H x 32” W)
Formation and dissolution of the American Equal Rights Association with print of President Grant signing the 15th
Amendment
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“Failure is Impossible” (48” H x 32” W)
Formation of 2 separate organizations: the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman
Suffrage Association with images of Olympia Brown and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
The New Departure (65” H x 39.5” W)
Suffragists test the definition of native born citizens in the 14th Amendment with images of Nannette B.E.
Gardner, Catherine A.F. Stebbins, Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Gardner, and a newspaper article from 1871
Women’s Suffrage on the Ballot in Michigan (65” H x 39.5” W)
First time women’s suffrage is on the ballot in Michigan with images of 1918 suffrage parade in Greenland, MI
and a women’s suffrage tent at the 1912 State Fair
The Northwestern Woman Suffrage Association (65” H x 39.5” W)
Disagreements between suffragists on how women’s suffrage should be achieved with caricature of Susan B.
Anthony on the cover of The Daily Graphic
Michigan’s Second Generation of Suffragists (65” H x 39.5” W)
The stories and images of Caroline Bartlett Crane, Lucia Isabelle Voorhees Grimes, Emily Burton Ketcham, May
Stocking Knaggs, and Anna Howard Shaw
“Neither Delay Nor Rest” (26” H x 54” W)
Michigan Equal Suffrage Association forms and seeks support from other women’s clubs with images of a
Women’s Christian Temperance Union white ribbon pin and the logo for the National American Women’s
Suffrage Association
Municipal Suffrage (65” H x 39.5” W)
Women of Michigan gain the vote in city elections with the image of Mary L. Doe and a “Votes for Women” float
in a Grand Rapids parade
Campaigns of 1912 & 1913 (65” H x 39.5” W)
Women’s suffrage at first appears to have passed in Michigan and then voter fraud defeats the issue by a small
margin with images of Clara B. Arthur, a pamphlet of a men’s group for women’s suffrage, and an image of men
gathered outside the Headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman suffrage
Suffragist or Suffragette? (48” H x 32” W)
What is the difference between the two terms and who used them. Images of Michigan National Women’s Party
Members and a newspaper article on Ella Aldinger
Victory! (48” H x 32” W)
Women get the vote in Michigan and finally nationally with images of Governor Albert Sleeper signing women’s
suffrage into law and an early picture of the League of Women’s Voters from Grand Rapids.
Michigan Women’s Suffrage Honor Roll (48” H x 19” W)
A list of just some of the women in Michigan that worked for women’s suffrage that visitors can add to with
names of Michigan suffragists they may know.
Exhibit Sponsors (48” H x 19” W)
Acknowledgement of the sponsors that supported the creation of this exhibit
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Women Featured in the Exhibit:
Anna Howard Shaw, Big Rapids
Laura Smith Haviland, Adrian
Eliza Seaman Leggett, Detroit
Sojourner Truth, Battle Creek
Catherine Ann Fish Stebbins, Detroit
Ernestine L. Rose, New York
Susan B. Anthony, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New York
Olympia Brown, Kalamazoo
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, Kalamazoo
Mary Wilson, Battle Creek
Nannette B.E. Gardner, Detroit
Sarah Gardner, Detroit
Mary Adelle Brown Hazlett, Hillsdale
Caroline Bartlett Crane, Kalamazoo
Lucia Isabelle Voorhees Grimes, Detroit
Emily Burton Ketcham, Grand Rapids
May Stocking Knaggs, Bay City
Mary L. Doe, Bay City
Clara B. Arthur, Detroit
Ella Aldinger, Lansing
Notes:
1. The exhibit, which occupies 90 linear feet of space, may be rented for a fee of $125 per week for a
minimum of four weeks.
2. All text and photo panels can be hung by Velcro on a fabric surface or by hook on plastered walls.
(The panels are equipped with grommets at the top.)
3. The exhibit must be picked up from and delivered back to the Michigan Women’s Historical Center’s
warehouse (1231 Roth Dr, Lansing, MI 48911) by minivan, station wagon, or covered pick-up truck at
the renter’s cost.
4. Artifacts are available for loan to qualifying institutions.
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