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An active member of the settlement house movement, Bertha Hazard founded Boston's Hemenway House of Cooperative Living, a cooperative living home for working girls and women. She registered to vote in Boston on September 17th, 1920
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My work with the #MaryElizaProject is on the road. Fun talk about mapping birthplaces of CT born now voters in the dataset and why human practical sense is important when working in the #DigitalHumanities #CTDH
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Also, Zaidee Williams Jackson (1897 –1970), a jazz musician who registered to vote in Boston in 1920 #MaryElizaProject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaidee_...
Chocolate dipping required significant training, and most 1920 Boston advertisements for chocolate dippers sought experienced dippers. In 1914, the Census Bureau reported that 60% of workers in United States candy factories were women. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
Recorded as born in Milan, Italy, Carolina M. (Colombo) Piotti was a founder of the Women’s Italian Club of Boston. She resided in Dorchester from 1895 until her death in 1957. #ItalianAmericanHeritageMonth #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
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In honor of #NationalWomensEqualityDay, we are sharing the #MaryElizaProject! The project created a searchable database of the more than 50,000 women who registered to vote in Boston after the passage of the 19th amendment. Learn more about the project at: ow.ly/28cH50WLBrI
Excerpt from Vera Nichols' voter registration record reading "Married, Supt Laboratory Lunch Kitchen, 243 Wash St"
1920 new Boston voters and #Dorchester sisters Vera M. (Warren) Nicholls and Bessie Warren both worked as Superintendents for different locations of Laboratory Kitchen Lunch Rooms, founded in 1903 by Bertha Stevenson. #MaryElizaProject @universalhub.com
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In my latest post for the Mary Eliza Project, I wrote about reformer Zilpha Drew Smith, registering to vote in Boston in 1920.
#WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject
Text reading "BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers" over a red, white, and blue background
Mark your calendars for a #MaryElizaProject public event! Come meet some of the Mary Eliza Team members as we present live and in person:
BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE
Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers
Free and Open to the Public!
Parade of suffrage supporters wearing white march in the 1912 New York City suffrage parade
The #MaryElizaProject is presenting at Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research conference on Jan. 3rd. We’re looking forward to sharing our experiences with interdisciplinary collaboration and learning from others. Image credit: 1912, New York Public Library. Post by Marta Crilly
Happy Holidays from the Mary Eliza Project team!
Postcard: “A Merry Christmas and Votes for Women in 1910,” 1909. London Museum, via the Suffrage Postcard Project (thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net) Post by Erin Wiebe #MaryElizaProject #WomensHistory #19thAmendment
Today WBUR replayed its Radio Boston interview with me and my amazing #MaryElizaProject colleagues Marta Crilly & Erin Wiebe. It was so much fun talking to Carrie Jung about the archives and stories of the city’s newly enfranchised women voters. #womenshistory
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