Pamphlets

rif. 15984 — 1917 NP New York State Woman Suffrage Party. First Edition US. 4-1/8" x 9" inches brown paper with black type. One page printed agenda for the New York State Woman Suffrage Party Annual County Convention held at the Assembly Hall Afton N.Y. from 10:30am until 4:00pm. Top and bottom 1/8 is wearing off otherwise very good condition.October 31 1909: The Woman Suffrage Party is founded. 1917 New York State grants women the right to vote one of the first to do so. Caroline McCormick Slade was a Trustee of Bryn Mawr College and one of its most active fundraisers. She joined the college Equal Suffrage League in 1912 and in 1917 became Chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City. Slade was particularly active in war service work and spoke at Bryn Mawr on April 19 1918 on "The New York Campaign and Women's Work in the War." Her work for the NAWSA which remained organized until 1951 continued well into the decades following the suffrage victory. No cpies in any institution as per OCLC. unknown books