- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Women's Suffrage Ratification in the Tennessee Senate Chamber
- Date of Original:
- 1920-08-19
- Subject:
- Women--Suffrage--Tennessee
Constitutional amendments--United States
Women
Civil rights
Politics and government
Tennessee. General Assembly. Senate - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, 36.17069, -86.77753
- Medium:
- digital images
photographs - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This photograph from the "Ratification Issue" of the Nashville Tennessean shows the Senate chamber at the moment that clerk counted the historic vote on women's suffrage. With this vote, Tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to approve the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
This object was added to the Digital Preservation Network in November 2017. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A1989
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Volunteer Voices--http://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/volvoices
Nashville Tennessean - Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
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