Leaflet : Instructions for women watchers. November, 1915
Elections -- New York (State) -- New York -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Elections
Honest Ballot Association
New York (State) -- New York
Woman Suffrage Party of New York City
Women election officials
Instructions for poll-watchers by George Kessler, Secretary of the Honest Ballot Association, New York City, to help curb illegal corruption or maneuvers to change the results of the election. The booklet reviews the rights of watchers, the ways in which improper voting or improper tallies may occur and how watchers can lodge protests.
Members of the Honest Ballot Association taught classes to women who served as poll-watchers leading up to the New York elections.
Kessler, George W.
Honest Ballot Association
Woman Suffrage Party of New York City
[New York, N.Y. : Honest Ballot Association]
[1915]
14 p.
English
DOCU.1915.35
Pamphlet : Taxation of women in Massachusetts by William Bowditch. 1875
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Taxation--Massachusetts
Voting and Voting Rights
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Massachusetts
William Bowditch was a conveyancer, a lawyer specializing in buying and selling property, in Boston. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and served as a selectman and moderator of Town Meetings for a number of years. He was a well-known abolitionist who used his house to shelter fugitive slaves.
Bowditch was also a supporter of women's rights. In this article, he reviews taxation laws in Massachusetts and their impact on women, and points to the injustice of taxing women without enfranchising them.
Bowditch, William I. (William Ingersoll), 1819-1909
Cambridge, Mass. : J. Wilson and Son
1875
71 p. incl. tables
English
DOCU.1875.01