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Powder shaker of Harper Method Professional Dry Shampoo Powder.

This is one of the prototypes Martha Matilda Harper had built as she developed her idea of a reclining shampoo chair. The cane seat was comfortable and attractive, but not very strong. Shampoo chairs with solid seats became the norm in Harper Salons.

Hester Jeffrey, Eulogy at Susan B. Anthony's Funeral, Rochester, 1906

Hester Jeffrey's eulogy is read by Cheryl Sampson:

"We, the colored people of Rochester, join the world in mourning the loss of our true friend, Susan B. Anthony.…

Banner logo for Because of Women Like her exhibition in Rochester, NY.

Kate Gleason's book open to page showing suffrage contributions.

Portrait of Frederick Douglass by John H. Kent, 1874.

Drawing of We the Women of the Iroquois. Depicts a group of women suffragists holding a sign saying Woman Suffrage and a group of Iroquois people with a list of various entitled rights such as the right to own land and the right to equal…

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

Woman Suffrage Party

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

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…