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DOCU-1861-01-1 Disunion .jpg
Two speeches given by famed abolitionist and orator, Wendell Phillips. The first is entitled "The Lesson of the Hour." The second, entitled "Progress" was addressed to the twenty-eighth Congregational Society. In the second, Phillips discusses the…

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Compilation of editorials, speeches, and extracts from journals about American entrepreneur, George Francis Train's trip to Kansas to stump for woman's suffrage. In November 1867, Kansas held a referendum to grant the vote to women and blacks in…

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Series: Woman's Suffrage Tracts, No. 1
Beecher argues that women have natural gifts in the same way as men do and should be permitted to publicly exercise those gifts in the same way. He advocates for woman's suffrage, saying the woman's influence…

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A reprint of an address made by Senator George F. Hoar in support of woman's suffrage, during a convention held in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 24, 1891.

Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…

ALMS-1893-02 Rhode Island Women.jpg
Elizabeth Buffum Chace, one of the organizers of the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association, reflects on the history of Rhode Island and argues in favor of woman suffrage in Rhode Island.

DOCU-1895-01 May Wright Sewall Address.jpg
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 as a part of the International Council of Women, a new organization intended to establish connections between women's rights organizations across the world. May Wright Sewall was…

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Inscribed with author's presentation slip: "To Miss Edna Farr compliments of Thomas Holmes"

The Rev. Thomas Holmes, D.D. was a pastor and educator, who became the president of Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana from 1865 until 1875. The…

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Reprint of an address by James Curley, mayor of Boston from 1914-1919, at Mechanics Hall. Curley argues that most reform laws, including improved labor laws, extension of the school age, public health laws, and employee pension were all met with…

PERI-1909-06 Suffragettes Invade.jpg
Photograph with caption:

Mrs. Sophia M. Loebinger, One of the Most Active Suffragettes of the Metropolis, Holding an Impromptu Meeting in Wall Street, Where She Was Received with Cat Calls and Showered by Ticker Tape by the Brokers"

Sophia…
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