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In Boston's Ward 4, over 1900 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 18 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.

Spiritualism grew in popularity in Northeastern states after both the U.S. Civil War and World War I.

In Charlestown's Ward 4, over 1400 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 4 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.

The New England Deaconess Hospital nurses and students joined the many other medical professionals and employees of Ward 14, covering today’s Longwood Medical Area, to claim their right to the vote.

In Boston's Ward 14, over 1900 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 14 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.

In Dorchester’s Ward 17, over 2100 women registered to vote in 1920. We’ve finished transcribing our Ward 17 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at Analyze Boston.

We've finished transcribing our Ward 3 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.

Awake! Awake! ye sisters all, in this our glorious land, and muster to the bugle call to lend a helping hand; to set the strife where such be rife, good will to all and cheer, clean government, new...

by Anna Boyles New England religious leader Mary Baker Eddy oversaw the building of her new religion’s Mother Church on Huntington Avenue in Boston in 1894. Just sixteen years later, a massive...

Sarah Cannon’s 1893 voting registration reveals her eagerness to vote as a U.S. citizen– and the story of a devoted marriage.

We've finished transcribing our Ward 12 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.

By Anna Boyles Shoe maker, shoe stitcher, shoe worker, shoe inspector, machine operator, topmaker, and eyeleter — these are some of the shoe industry-related occupations that women reported when they...

We've finished transcribing our Ward 2 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.

by Anna Boyles The 1880 United States Census reports that roughly fifty-percent of immigrants from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island settled in Massachusetts, while nearly thirty-percent of New...

In Boston's Ward 10, over 800 women registered to vote between August 12 and October 13, 1920. We have finished transcribing the Ward 10 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at...

In 1917, Boston's first female bootblacks fought Mayor Curley and Boston's City Council to save their jobs.

In Dorchester's Ward 11, over 1500 women registered to vote between August 12 and October 13, 1920. We have finished transcribing the Ward 11 Women’s Voter Registers and the data is now available at...

by Anna Boyles Boston women’s voter registrations from 1920 reveal that a number of women migrated from southern states to make neighborhoods such as the South End and Lower Roxbury their home...

We've finished transcribing our Ward 1 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.

by Anna Boyles On October 4, 1920. Sarah Stites and Helen Hodge left their Queensberry Street home in Boston to register to vote together. While transcribing women voter registers from 1920, members...

Who were the women artists who claimed their right to vote in 1920s Boston?

We've finished transcribing our Ward 8 Women's Voter Registers from 1920 and have added them into an easily accessible, searchable, and sortable dataset.

Melnea Agnes Cass dedicated her life to improving the world around her. Read more about the early life of this Boston champion.

Among the 50,000 women who registered to vote in Boston in 1920, a large number worked in various occupations in the city’s department stores.

The Boston City Archives is thrilled to announce that it has been selected as the recipient of a $39,155 Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The grant will...

For decades, wage-earning women and female students called the Franklin Square House in Boston’s South End home. In 1920, over a hundred of these residents claimed their new right to register to vote...

What exactly did these endeavoring women have to bring with them to successfully register as a voter?

Many of the women in Lower Roxbury and the South End registering to vote for the first time in 1920 supported themselves and their families working at the United Drug Co. factory.

Among the 50,000 women who registered to vote in Boston in 1920, a large number living in the South End were women of color.

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