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Banquet, Political Equality Club, at the Livingston Hotel, Friday Evening, November the twentieth, Rochester, N.Y., 1896. A yellow ribbon is attached to the corner of the booklet.

Built by Smith H. Phinney, circa 1895, who used oak and maple for the frame and tires.

A video compilation of footage and interviews recorded in the Rochester, NY area during and after the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign and election. Interviewees responded to questions such as: "What does voting mean to you?", "Do you remember what…

A video compilation of footage and interviews recorded in the Rochester, NY area during and after the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign and election. Interviewees responded to questions such as: "What does voting mean to you?", "Do you remember what…

The New York State Woman Suffrage Association held its 37th annual state convention in Rochester in 1905 and honored Susan B. Anthony throughout the week. The official badge featured her picture and favorite quotation: "Perfect Equality of Rights for…

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…

Elected in 1899, Helen Barrett Montgomery served on the Rochester School Board for 10 years. She was instrumental in introducing progressive reforms like kindergartens, vocational training, and health education.

Perfect round of work and pleasure in harmony, was a task before which any committee might well stand aghast. But it has been done, and done well – with apparently as little friction as might occur in an affair of less importance. The beauty of it…

Woman Suffrage Party

According to the donor, this sash was used in Rochester in 1917.

Portrait of Frederick Douglass by James LeClear, newly discovered in a scrapbook at the Rochester Public Library.