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Virginia Warns Her People
The image comes from the Department of Historic Resources. Â
In the article attached, from 1915, the Richmond Evening Journal is writing to warn the citizens of what women could do with the right to vote. Â It highlights where there are more colored…
The Struggles of Women's Suffrage
The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…
"If you can't fight, farm" carriage at Westend
This photograph was likely taken in the fields of Westend Farm during WWI, when there would have been a need for farmers to supply food to the soldiers overseas.
Lucy and Nancy Taylor stayed on Westend and kept it going as a farm while two male…
Lucy and Nancy Taylor stayed on Westend and kept it going as a farm while two male…
Jerdone Castle: Ellen Glasgow's Childhood Summer Home
Ellen Glasgow was a prominent part of the movement for women’s suffrage and was the honorary vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League. Glasgow was born and lived most of her life in Richmond. As a young child, before she became a well-known…
Leon Luxford Loyall
Leon Luxford Loyall, from Willowbrook, Louisa County, Virginia, is one of many individuals to join the Equal Suffrage League. He was born on November 1, 1876 and is noted as being a teacher at the time he registered to vote in 1902. He married Ada…
The Scottish Suffragettes - Christian Guild
In 1904, at the age of 43 and with her husband and seven children, Christian Guild left her homeland of Scotland to immigrate to the United States. When she reached Dabneys, Louisa County, Virginia, she became actively involved in an attempt to start…
Socialist Party National Constitution
These are scans of a booklet with the National Constitution of the Socialist Party and application for membership both belonging to Dr. Robert Shelton. These may have been for his use or possibly to distribute to new members.
Letters to Robert Shelton
Between 1913 and 1917 Dr. Robert Shelton received letters from other members of the socialist party concerning the distribution of pamphlets and the lining up of different speakers for the party. One of the letters mentions Shelton, himself, getting…
Mrs. Kate Butler
Kate Towsey Butler wife of John Hugh Butler
Church Incarnation
Two women standing in front of the door of a church.
Nurse
Unidentified Nurse
Pyrite Mine Women
Unidentified women associated with the Mineral Pyrite Mines
Kate C. Hambleton Foster
Kate C. Hambleton Foster
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams, wife of Colonel W. H. Adams, manager of Arminius Mines, Mineral, VA
Three Women with a Child
Three unidentified women standing with a child
Mildred P.
Mildred P.
Mildred Potts
Mildred Potts
Imogene Cash
Imogene Cash
Bonnie Waggoner
Bonnie Waggoner