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Conococheague Yearbook

The following maps and charts, prepared, with the exception of No. 1, from reports which have been received from the State Divisions, show the remarkable growth of the Woman's Committee during the first year of its existence. In spite of many…

An image from a Wilson College student's scrapbook requesting contribution to the costs of yellow chrysanthemums to decorate a suffrage reception for Dr. Anna Howard Shaw who visited the college in 1915 and also a request to pay Suffrage League dues

Map of the results of the November 1915 vote to amend the PA Constitution to extend suffrage to women by county.

Photograph accompanying an article on the status of the suffrage movement in the four eastern states in which suffrage was on the ballot in 1915

From a discussion published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Monday, October 28, 2019 on the H-net Kentucky resources site: At noon they presented a “tableau vivant” of women on the steps of the old city Art Museum building at 19th and Locust streets.…

Thousands of women formed a double row along Locust Street between the Jefferson Hotel and the Coliseum where the convention was held. They planned for the "walkless parade" to last until noon on June 14th and they planned a torchlight parade and…

In 1911 the Equal RIghts Association of Western Pennsylvania opened its headquarters in the Jenkins Arcade in Pittsburgh

Image from an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on December 16, 1927 announcing Patterson's role as an advisor to women with stock accounts with the J.H Holmes Investment Co. in Pittsburgh, PA

Photograph of Suffrage leaders gathered at the Pennsylvania State Building at the Sesquicentennial to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Pictured, left to right: Miss Hannah J. Patterson of Pittsburgh;…

Patterson was the assistant TO the Secretary of War not Assistant Secretary of War. And she was MISS Patterson not Mrs.
The Washington Times, October 24, 1919