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This calendar starts in 1800 and lists notable events related to women and women's rights every year until 1900. It covers the Unites States as a…
Williams with friend Dave (Slick) Branch in “zoot suits.” Almond St., Syracuse, N.Y. 1941.
Williams holding his son Dennis, with his other son, Gregory. 1952.
Like the pins that many high school and college students put on their backpacks to share their political and pop culture affinities with the world,…
Satirical suffrage postcards were popular at the turn of the 20th century. This postcard depicts Uncle Sam as an angry-looking woman wearing a…
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Community organizer and activist scholar Saul Alinsky and Rev. Canon St. Julian Simpkins, FIGHT rally.
Midge Costanza at a march with members of the National Organization for Women (NOW), including Jean O'Leary and Ginny Foat
Susan B. Anthony’s sister Mary Stafford Anthony (1827-1907) was a long-time teacher and principal in Rochester schools. Her steady income allowed…
Photograph of Franklin Florence, seated on a folding table.
Photograph of Franklin Florence, Malcolm X, and Constance Mitchell
Petition for Woman Suffrage booklet used to collect signatures in each county of New York State, 1894. The pages containing the original signatures…
Minister Franklin Florence's first church in Rochester, New York. 37 Reynolds Street, in Rochester. The Florence family lived upstairs.
Two contrasting newspaper clippings covering Midge COstanza's resignation: one more critical and one more sympathetic
Midge Costanza posing in a TV studio, likely after her resignation from the White House and her move to California to find employment in the…
A photo of Midge Costanza and Jimmy Cartler, likely taken around the time of him winning the 1976 Presidential election
Image of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale in her studio.
Franklin Florence, seated, speaking to an unidentified gentleman, ca. 1965.
Cyanotype [facsimile]. Adelaide Crapsey at Alice Ward’s house, Rochester, n.d.
Constance Mitchell moved to Rochester in the 1950s and became ensconced in the Civil Rights Movement. As a political activist, she was involved with…
Chester Himes. Alicante, Spain. June 1969.
(DETAIL) Oxford expedition to Siberia, 1914. Dora Curtis.
"SLUGGERS." Photograph of sons Dennis and Gregory. Syracuse, N.Y. 1952.
This brochure, signed by more than thirty-five Rochester women including Susan B. Anthony and Kate Gleason, asks the women of Rochester to “urge upon…
Reproduction of a photograph, “War Time/ New Janitors,” Crapsey Clothing Company, Rochester, New York, ca. 1915.