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Letter to Susan B. Anthony from Abigail Bush, April 14, 1898; regarding the 1848 Rochester Women's Rights Convention. This letter offered Bush's thoughts regarding the 1848 Rochester Women's Rights Convention.

..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.

Produced in six volumes from 1881-1922, History of Woman Suffrage documents the movement’s presence in the United States. Written by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Husted Harper, and others associated with the National Woman Suffrage…

Woman Suffrage Party

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

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

The handwritten letter explains to the editor of the Chicago Tribune that the History of Woman's Suffrage was the most important book for people to read.

Minutes of 1848 Rochester Women's Rights Convention

Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony, April 27, 1898. Stanton wrote this letter to be read at fiftieth anniversary celebration of the 1848 Rochester Women's Rights Convention.