1915 PENN STATE GETTYSBURG FOOTBALL TICKET SUFFRAGE PIN

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Offered for sale without reserve is this exceedingly rare piece of early Penn State football history recently purchased out of a local Bellefonte estate. The ticket belonged to and was worn by Esther Dale who presumably came home from nearby Wilson College for what we believe to be homecoming weekend at Penn State on October 16, 1915. Many Women's Suffrage items were found within her scrapbooks and she apparently attached a 3/4" diameter celluloid pinback button to the bottom of her ticket to make a political statement regarding the upcoming state referendum on November 2nd which at that point would have been seventeen days away. For the record the amendment did not pass in Pennsylvania and it would be another five years before women gained the right to vote. The Dennison ticket (4 1/4" X 2 1/8") is bright orange with black lettering and still has the original attachment string which she cut away from her coat button. It reads "FOOTBALL - Gettysburg Vs. Penn State - New Beaver Field - Sat. Oct. 16 - 2:30 PM - Admission 50 Cents - Keep This Ticket In Sight ". The celluloid button reads "PENNA - 1915" within a keystone with a blue banner reading "Votes For Women". Condition is excellent with no fading and only some extremely minor creasing and a tiny glue stain on the upper right from w it had been applied to a scrapbook page. The read more
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