Woman Suffrage Memorabilia Encyclopedia With Color Plates, First Edition

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Book Description:  Kenneth Florey,
Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia—An Illustrated Study,
Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland Press, 2013, 244 indexed pages. Softbound. 215 images with 16 pages of color plates.  First Edition. Mint Condition (New Book).
While historians have long recognized the importance of memorabilia to the Woman Suffrage movement, the subject has not been explored apart from a few restricted, albeit excellent, studies. Part of the problem is that such objects are scattered about in various collections and museums and can be difficult to access. Another is that most scholars do not have ready knowledge of the general nature and history of the type of objects (postcards, badges, sashes, toys, ceramics, sheet music, etc.) that suffragists produced. Then-new techniques in both printing and manufacturing created numerous possibilities for supporters to develop campaigns of "visual rhetoric." This work analyzes 70 different categories of suffragist memorabilia, while providing numerous images of relevant objects along the way and discussing these innovative production methods. Most important, this study looks at period accounts, often fascinating, of how, why when, and where the memorabilia were used in both America and England.
It also discusses items related to the campaigns of Belva Lockwood, Victoria Woodhull, and Emma Beckwith.
The author, Kenneth Florey, professor emeritus at Southern Connecticut State University, is a long-time specialist in Woman Suffrage memorabilia. He has lectured on the subject both here and abroad, appeared on television, and written articles for a variety of publications. He has also served as an auction appraiser on Votes for Women material.  An excellent bibliographic source for the historian or collector of suffrage or suffragette (the latter term was used derogatorily for activists in America but was accepted by the militant forces in England).  I am selling this at below publisher’s asking price.