Colorado Equal Suffrage Association Leaflet 5, 1893 (Women. Suffrage. Newspaper clippings), Western History Collection, The Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado.

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Colorado Equal Suffrage Association Leaflet 5, 1893 (Women. Suffrage. Newspaper clippings), Western History Collection, The Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado. Included in Woman Suffrage in Colorado: Document-based question, (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004)..

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The following cartoon appeared in a pro-suffrage leaflet published prior to the referendum on woman suffrage in 1893:

—Colorado Equal Suffrage Association Leaflet 5, 1893

7. Why do you think the suffragists chose a picture of Abraham Lincoln to mobilize support for their cause?

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