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Photograph of Nellie L. McElroy, left, and other unknown women. McElroy, Rochester's first policewoman, was active in a variety of local social welfare and reform efforts. Here she is selling surplus Army ham, 1919.

Susan B. Anthony $1 coins were minted from 1979-1981, and again from 1999-2000. The coin was originally designed with an allegorical image of Lady Liberty, but Congress, the League of Women Voters, the National Organization for Women, and the…

Susan B. Anthony Memorial Association: Minutes, printed material, solicitation book related to raising money to erect Anthony Hall on the University of Rochester Prince Street campus.

Vote for the Woman Suffrage Amendment, November 6, 1917.

VOTERS are mostly men. Do you know why men are voters?

ONLY three reasons have been given why men should have the vote:

TAXATION without representation is tyranny; MEN are taxed. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the…

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…

Rachel Foster Avery photograph- Scope and Contents note:
Avery writes on the back of one cabinet card:

"To my beloved and revered second mother, Susan B. Anthony. Rachel Foster Avery. Rochester, Aug. 7, 1891."

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…

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