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The Savior of California’s Suffrage Movement

Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller.

The Savior of California’s Suffrage Movement

After California’s male voters decisively defeat a women’s voting rights ballot measure in 1896, suffragists display plenty of public bravado. But it’s all for show. …

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Marietta Stow Makes a Bid for Vice President

Shows portraits of two women and candidate information for the 1884 Equal Rights Ticket

Marietta Stow Makes a Bid for Vice President

Published by Kimberly Brown

On October 24, 1884, Marietta Stow declares her candidacy for vice president of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket, during a speech…

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Sicilian Immigrant Hand-Carves an Underground Oasis in Fresno

Sicilian Immigrant Hand-Carves an Underground Oasis in Fresno

Published by Kimberly Brown

Baldassare Forestiere, born July 8, 1879, leaves his home in Sicily as a young man and immigrates to the United States where he works as…

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