Before you peruse this gallery, see if you can name three suffrage monuments in the country. Stumped? Think about what makes a monument memorable. It usually comes down to subject, scale and location. The most recognizable monuments in the United States are massive in scale, located in the nation's capital or other tourist sites, and typically honor white men. Suffragist memorials, however, suffer from a lack of visibility. This began in 1921, when Congress relegated Adelaide Johnson's "Portrait Monument to Women's Suffrage" to the Capitol basement until 1997. Even today, one hundred years after women won the right to vote, there are fewer than twenty public memorials to suffrage. The monuments that do exist tend to honor the same leaders, are small in scale and often located in cities and towns that draw few visitors. As you scroll through the images, pay attention to how often suffragists are honored collectively, rather than individually, as well as to the scale and location of suffrage monuments.
