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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn and colored maps of Wisconsin showing how each county voted in the gubernatorial race of 1865, and on a referendum regarding suffrage for Africa... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Reverend Olympia Brown Willis, of Racine. She was the first president of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association. |
| Read about this Wisconsonite, whose leadership in the Women's Suffrage Movement helped Wisconsin become the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. |
| How Years of Failure led to Success |
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| Discover the history of suffrage in Wisconsin, and how the state became the first to ratify the 19th amendment after many difficulties. |
| Date: | 1900-04-01 |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of activist Ada James at around 30 years of age. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Standing, three-quarter length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of activist Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
| Suffragist and Lecturer |
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| Biography of Jessie Annette Jack Hooper, prominent suffragist in Wisconsin civic reform groups and women's organizations. |
| Suffragist and Minister |
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| Biography of suffragist and Universalist minister Olympia Brown, the first female minister in America. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Ada James (kneeling, far right), of Richland Center, Wisconsin, with friends Mrs. Lucille Tappan Moreland of Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. G.B. Longan, autho... |
| This woman was the wife of "Fighting Bob" La Follette. Read about her influence in politics, specifically in the woman's suffrage and pacifist's movements. |
| Suffragist, Social Worker and Reformer |
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| Biography of suffragist, social worker and reformer Ada Lois James. |
| Community: | Richland Center |
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| County: | Richland |
| Historic Name: | JUDGE PEARL AND GRACE LINCOLN HOUSE |
| Reference Number: | 40856 |
| The Story of Lost Bird |
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| Discover this harrowing story that brings together a feminist pioneer and the infant her husband found in the aftermath of Wounded Knee. |
| This Milwaukee born woman successfully advocated for progressive reforms in the educational system and was influential in the Milwaukee socialist movement. |
| Librarian, Lecturer, Reformer and Author |
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| Biography of Lutie Eugenia Stearns, librarian, lecturer, reformer and author who helped establish the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Gladys Harvey, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a golfer. Part of a yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based on a c... |
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