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ALMS-1870-04 p1 Memorial of CE McKay.jpg
Series: Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. House), 41st Congress, 2nd session, no. 48.

Charlotte McKay, a Civil War nurse, addresses several reasons against granting the right to vote to women, chief among them that it would put the safety of the…

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Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of
citizenship, guaranteed in by the…

ALMS-1874-01-1 p1 Senate Report regarding SBA fine.jpg
Series: 43rd Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 472

The Committee on the Judiciary recommended that the petition be discharged and the bill postponed indefinitely due to a lack of Congressional authority on the matter.

ALMS-1886-01-1 Woman Suffrage in Utah Senate Report p1.jpg
From the series: United States. Congress. Senate, 49th Congress, 1st session, No. 122.

Petition to the 1st Session of the 49th Congress by Mrs. Angie F. Newman to present the signatures of 2,000 Mormon women who assembled in Salt Lake City, Utah…

ALMS-1888-01-1 Envelope to Dana Bancroft Esq front.jpg
E. Dana Bancroft was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

The envelope also contains handwritten notes: "Saw Dr. Heartwell and spoke with him about the within [?] an [?] presence of Doctor Parsons Sat. Feb. 18, 1888. Senator voted…

ALMS-1893-01 Senate Report No1143 on Woman Suffrage p1.jpg
Series: Report / Senate ; no. 1143 and views of the minority

This is an accounting of the hearing given by the Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage in response to a petition by the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts and…

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54th Congress, 1st Session; Document No. 157

Introduced by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the document details remarks by Elizabeth D. Bacon, Connecticut; Mary E. Marehand Milligan, Delaware; Ellen Powell Thompson, District of Columbia; Mrs. Frank L.…

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Mary Ware Dennett was a suffragist, artist, and advocate of birth control and sex education. She served as the field secretary for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage…
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