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Harper Method Ointment for the Hair was produced from 1888 on in Rochester. According to the package, it "regulates the normal secretion of natural oil, corrects dry & eczematous conditions of the scalp, overcomes the most stubborn cases of dandruff,…

Carrie Chapman Catt, The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Presidential Acceptance Speech, 1900

Carrie Chapman Catt's speech is read by Betty Wolfanger:

"Good friends, I should hardly be human if I did not feel gratitude and…

Carrie Chapman Catt's address is read by Megan Mack:

"Is it not clear that American history makes woman suffrage inevitable? That full suffrage in twelve States makes its coming in all forty-eight States inevitable? That the spread of democracy…

Powder shaker of Harper Method Professional Dry Shampoo Powder.

Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Rachel Foster Avery, Washington, D.C., January 12, 1889.

Anthony describes her arrival in Washington D.C. and the debate, presumably surrounding the merging of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the…

Sarah Dolley graduated from Rochester’s Central Medical College in 1851, becoming just the third woman in the U.S. to complete medical school and the first to be accepted as an intern, completing her training at Philadelphia’s Blockley Hospital. The…

Anti-Women's Suffrage postcard. Reads: Easy to Remember: Vote No In November. Suffrage is going; not coming! Within one year it has been defeated in Congress and in nineteen states, viz:--Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut,…

Phyllis and Mamma go a-voting - and are outvoted ten to one.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address at Seneca Falls, 1898
“What were the causes that roused women…”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address is read by Jessica Lacher-Feldman:

"What were the causes that roused women to the consideration of their political…

Susan B. Anthony, the most well-known suffragist in the U.S., did not attend the women’s rights conventions in 1848. She was teaching in Canajoharie, NY, and lecturing against alcohol use at the time. She did not join the fight for women’s rights…