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The Mother of Nations pipe.

The Mother of Nations pipe.

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.

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…

The bicycle craze of the 1890s provided another opportunity for women to exert independence, as well as to improve their health. For Rochesterian May Bragdon, “flying freely down a hill” on the bicycle she named Diana provided a sense of exhilaration…

The Marcel Wave hairstyle was very popular in the 1920s. This electric iron allowed Harper staff to create the short hair style quickly and easily.

Map of the Concrest Development in East Rochester, NY. Kate Gleason was instrumental in the creation of the housing development, which aimed to provide afforable housing to the working class. The development included 55 houses built between 1919 and…

List of the 8th Ward election inspectors Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, who recorded the illegal votes of Susan B. Anthony and 13 other women in the 1872 U.S. Presidential Election. Text indicates that the three election…

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.

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…