Jennie Bradley Roessing was an active participant in the women's suffrage movement in the early 1900s and various Pittsburgh-area civic, labor, and community organizations through the late 1950s. This collection includes personal papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, travel diaries, photographs, architectural drawings, pamphlets, speeches, and memorabilia.

The Edith Tait Deedrick Photograph Collection of the Socialist Party contains 83 gelatin silver photographic prints of varying sizes plus two copy negatives that document the members of the Socialist Party in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania circa 1910 to 1920. There are several photographs of members marching and supporting Suffrage.

Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer and one of the more popular entertainers of her era. She became well-known in the 1880s performing light opera and musical comedies. She was a part of the Tony Pastor company, the Weber and Fields company, and eventually had her own Lillian Russell Opera Company.

In 1912, Russell married Alexander Pollock Moore, owner of the Pittsburgh Leader, and settled in Pittsburgh. During this time, she performed only sporadically. During her later years, Russell wrote a newspaper column on various topics including health, love, and beauty, became an advocate for women's suffrage, and participated in Marnie Corps recruiting efforts for World War I. In 1922, Russell traveled to Europe on an immigration fact-finding mission for President Harding. Following a short illness after her return, Lillian Russel passed away at her home in Pittsburgh.

Among the papers in this amazing resource of women's history, is a copy of the 1915 Suffrage Cookbook, 1907 Pittsburgh Suffrage for Teachers notes. and her research on Suffrage.

This collection concerns the historical role of the woman in the United States from Colonial to present time. The materials include photocopied manuscripts and articles from books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, together with photocopied oral interview transcripts, fables, poems, and songs. Among the documentation is Wage Earners' Suffrage League, Senators vs. Working Women.

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a popular and prolific American author in the first half of the 20th century. Best known for her mysteries, Rinehart published poems, short stories, plays, articles, essays, memoirs, romances, and novels. Some of her works were adapted for stage, film, radio, and television. The Mary Roberts Rinehart Papers document her career as a writer, her life, her family, and her travels and activities. Digital reproductions of the collection are available online. Among the available reproductions is a two-page essay where she mentions suffrage and voting.

The Elsie H. Hillman Papers document the life of Elsie Hillman (1925-2015), a prominent regional Republican Party activist and philanthropist. Among the extensive documentation of her work is information regarding the Woman's Suffrage 75th Anniversary in 1995

"Before 1920, women in Pennsylvania did not have the right to vote. As a matter of fact, women were excluded from many rights. There were some brave women that would dedicate their lives to gaining these rights. This tutorial examines the suffrage movement in Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1920, especially the reason women joined this struggle. These well-educated, wealthy women had strong support systems, such as their fathers and friends, to back their fight for justice.

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Many of Mary Ella Bakewell's concerns and activities are represented in her papers, which include atypescript address of her reminiscences of living in Allegheny City and the North Side, “Pittsburgh fifty years ago,”which was delivered to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania in 1946. Also included isa typescriptcopy of her novel, What woman is here?, published by the Oxford University Press in 1949, describing her career in the Episcopalian Church. Additionally, this collection also contains atypescript copy of herunpublished novel, Ourselves the Suffragettes, concerning her campaign to gain women the right to vote. There are also short articles concerning the history of the Bakewell glass factory and a series of holograph notes for lectures on Christianity from the 1940s.

Margaret Townsend Scully was a published poet, local historian, and active participant in many civic, cultural and social organizations. During World War I, Margaret Townsend Scully was active in the American Red Cross and as president of the Junior Auxiliary of the Pittsburgh Anti-Suffrage Organization helped to direct classes on Red Cross work and relief.

Mary Flinn Lawrence, former owner and creator of Hartwood Acres, was active in political and civic initiatives throughout most of her life. She sat on the Board of the Home for Crippled Children most of her adult life, and was also active in the Red Cross, Equal Franchise Federation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, Home for Convalescent Mothers and Babies (now Harmarville Rehabilitation Center), Moral Efficiency Commission of Pittsburgh, Pleasant Hill Farm Association, Farmington Committee, Family Society of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony Society, Young Women's Christian Association, Fox Chapel Garden Club, Twentieth Century Club, and the Civic Club.

Margaret Deland had a long and prosperous writing career that was at the heart of the changing concerns of women from the 19th to the 20th century..Although she also wrote poetry and nonfiction, Margaret Deland's reputation rests primarily on her fiction. She wrote thirty-eight short stories for magazines, such as Harpers Weekly and Cosmopolitan and approximately thirty-nine novelettes and novels that demonstrate the reoccurring themes of her rejection of religious orthodoxy and her moderate views on women's issues. Her stories offer a sense of nostalgia for the quaint social customs of a simpler time in history and often embody the struggle to maintain standards, manners, and beliefs of the 19th century in the midst of great change at the turn of the 20th century. Her moderate view on women's issues presents the need for change and the fear that too much change would destroy society. Deland believed that marriage is the cornerstone of a woman's life and opposed divorce. She has been criticized for creating mothers who neglect their children and women who stifle their own sexuality. At the same time, Deland attacked religious fanaticism and advocated sex education and birth control. Some critics believe that her writing depicts strong, intelligent, and independent women creating a new type of heroine. Her writing documents the changing attitudes and perceptions of the traditional images of women and illustrates the changing "feminine ideal" and the emergence of the "new woman". Her work is most impressive for the way it reflects the conflicts she witnesses and experiences between the old and the new. Deland's controversial writing career is fore grounded in her rejection of Presbyterianism while expressing both Anti-Suffragist and Suffragist views and mirroring the social and moral crises of her time. Deland was also active in lecturing to clubs, schools, and societies.

Daisy Lampkin devoted her adult life to enhancing racial and gender equality throughout society. She served on the national board of the
4National Association ofColored Women, and assisted Mary McLeod-Bethune in founding the National Council of Negro Women in the 1920s. Lampkin served as president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Lucy Stone Womens Suffrage League and was active in political circles.

One of the earliest clubs for women in the city, the Woman's Club of Pittsburgh was organized as a literary and cultural club to meet the needs of professional women and women journalists. The Woman's Club grew into a major force in the Pittsburgh community, providing leadership for social reform in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Records include minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, historical material, scrapbook and other items, the bulk of which are board and meeting minutes, kept from 1877 to 1944. The meeting minutes provide detailed accounts of proceedings, including discussion of current events and issues.Almost every aspect of women's lives in Pittsburgh and the region were discussed, including women's suffrage, education, social conditions, and other issues. The Club also took an active concern with civic issues, bringing in members of local civic groups for lectures. These groups included the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, Civic Club, and in the 1940s, the Allegheny Conference for Community Development.