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OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO VOTE: Woman Suffrage Movement in Tompkins County - One-Hundred +1 Years in the Making

Click on the display or use this link to explore this interactive audio-visual exhibit on the history of Women's Suffrage Movement in Tompkins County.

Click on the ">" symbol to navigate between pages. Select "Play" for audio to play on each page.

Use this link to share the exhibit: https://indd.adobe.com/view/9bd7206b-a428-42b9-bf65-9bc79874e3e7

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND LEARNING MATERIALS

LESSON PLANS on Women's Suffrage

Timeline of Events in Securing Women's Suffrage in new York State - Prepared by Seneca County Historian Walter Gable - February 2017

Central New York State Women's Suffrage Timeline - Prepared by The History Center in Tompkins County

The League of Women Voters - Prepared by The History Center in Tompkins County

Unsung Voices: Black Women and Their Role in Women's Suffrage - National Women's History Museum

Haudenosaunee Women's Influence on Suffrage - New York Digital Heritage Collections

AMENDED - Reading List - Humanities New York

RURAL VOICES from Tompkins County on the Path to Women's Rights

These resources were created through a Humanities New York grant.

Rural Life for Women in the Early 1900's
Anti-Suffrage Sentiment
Pro-Suffrage Sentiment
Town of Newfield
Town of Lansing
Town of Groton
Town of Dryden
Town of Trumansburg

WOMEN'S HISTORY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY - ARCHIVES & RELATED COLLECTIONS

Guide to Women's History Archival Collections and written research - The History Center in Tompkins County
Elizabeth Mulholland Collection V-64-7-9
Genevieve Cosentini Correspondence Collection V-64-3-2
Ithaca Business & Professional Women's Club V-64-2-8
Jane Dieckmann Book Research Collection V-64-8-3
Jemma Macera Diary Collection V-64-4-6
League of Women Voters Local Records V-63-9-1
Louisa St. John Diary V-64-7-5
Mary Raddant Tomlan Collection V-64-4-3
Women's Community Building Organizations Collection V-64-2-7
Sophronia E. Bucklin Papers Collection V-1-1-4

Explore these collections and more by visiting our Research Library.

Physical Address

Located inside the Tompkins Center for History & Culture

110 North Tioga Street

(On the Ithaca Commons)

Ithaca NY, 14850 USA

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Hours

Exhibit Hall - Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm - CLOSED Sun-Tues

Cornell Local History Research Library & Thaler/Howell Archives - By appointment only. Please contact archives@thehistorycenter.net

Contact

Email: Refer to Contact page for individual emails, General inquiries to community@thehistorycenter.net

Phone: 607-273-8284

Web: thehistorycenter.net

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