Early 1900s American Woman\'s League Founding Chapter Brass Pin Women\'s Suffrage
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Early 1900s American Woman\'s League Founding Chapter Brass Pin Women\'s Suffrage:
$35.00
This sale is for a vintage early 1900\'s American Woman\'s League Founding Chapter brass pin. This oval pin has an image of a mother with children in an oval and American Woman\'s League Founding Chapter (which is the Idaho chapter). Below is some information from Wikipedia on the organization. Winner to pay $2.75 for postage. See photos for details.
TheAmerican Woman\'s Leaguewas created by the magazine publisherEdward Gardner Lewisin 1907. In part, it was a maneuver to lowerpostal ratesby appealing to educational and social opportunities that would appeal to the emergingwomen\'s suffragemovement. His magazines,Woman\'s Magazineand theWoman\'s Farm Journal, had been denied second class postal rates because they were judged as advertisements and thus did not qualify for a lower rate as second class mail. Rather than magazine sales representatives making commissions, as was the common practice at the time, the payments went to form local women\'s \"Chapter Houses\".[1]
Although the local groups began as a marketing venture, many become prominent women\'s clubs within their communities. The network later became a more traditional organization with dues paid to the national office and became the \"American Woman’s Republic\".
The 1986 nomination of an Idaho 1909-built AWL chapter house to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)states that there were 39 other AWL chapter houses once existing in the United States (beyond two in Idaho).[2]
Chapter houses included:
- Andover Chapter House,Andover, Illinois, NRHP-listed
- American Women\'s League Chapter House (Peck, Idaho),Peck, Idaho, NRHP-listed
- Alton Chapter House
- Annawan Chapter House
- Carlinville Chapter House
- Carmi Chapter House
- Deer Lodge American Women\'s League Chapter House
- Edwardsville Chapter House
- Katy Hamman-Stricker Library
- Maywood Woman\'s Club
- Princeton Chapter House
- Zion Chapter House
Early 1900s American Woman\'s League Founding Chapter Brass Pin Women\'s Suffrage:
$35.00