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A photomechanical reproduction of Hester C. Jeffrey, an activist and community organizer who lived in Rochester, NY.

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.

Rochester's history is well-tied to the garment industry which brought long hours and unsafe conditions to its workers. Immigrant garment worker Ida Breiman joined a labor strike in an effort to secure better working conditions, shorter hours, and…

Anti-Women's Suffrage postcard. Reads: New York has better laws for protection of women and children than obtain in any woman suffrage states. Eighty per cent. of the women in New York state do not want the ballot. These reasons are sufficient to…

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,…

Photograph of an Anti-Suffrage tent with unknown anti-suffragists standing in front. Tent sign reads: I am opposed to woman suffrage. Mayor of Rochester, NY, Hiram Edgerton stands next to the tent.

Anti-suffrage postcard. Reads: Stand by the Women Vote NO on Woman Suffrage! Woman's right is the right of freedom from political duties. Over 80% of the women of New York DO NOT want to vote. The Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Rochester.

Portrait of Emma B. Sweet. Sweet became a leader in the Rochester Political Equality Club in the early 20th century.

Photograph of men and women marching in support of woman suffrage. From the Rochester Women’s Educational and Industrial Union records, 1893-1993.

Photograph of a group of Dunbar Red Cross workers.