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Petition for Woman Suffrage
To the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled:

"The underground citizens of the United States and of the State of Connecticut, earnestly pray your Honorable Body to adopt measures for so amending…

..1848-1898..
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHT CONVENTION held in Rochester, N.Y.

Central Church,
Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29.

Souvenir Program...
Photo upper right corner of Susan B. Anthony.
Afternoon Free.…

The Post family were women's rights activists, and close friends of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.

Newspaper Clippings and Documents Scrap Books- Pasted on Book, "Anti-Suffrage Articles." Anti- Suffrage articles concerning Caroline F. Corbin (president of Illinois Remonstrants Against Woman Suffrage).

Rochester Political Equality
Membership ticket belonging to a Mrs. (Fannie) Bigelow.

The back reads:
To be a citizen of the United States of America should entitle on to be a voter-go

Minutes of 1848 Rochester Women's Rights Convention

The Mother of Nations pipe.

The bicycle craze of the 1890s provided another opportunity for women to exert independence, as well as to improve their health. For Rochesterian May Bragdon, “flying freely down a hill” on the bicycle she named Diana provided a sense of exhilaration…

Image of Jean Brooks Greenleaf

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,…