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Josephine and husband M. Toscan Bennett lived on Forest St., near Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stow. She was a member of history organizations DAR and NSCDA, active in and officer of the National Woman's Party, founder of the Hartford Equal…

Half-length portrait of Helena Hill Weed, seated wearing a white dress-gown with bow at empire waist and ruffled net over-the-shoulder sleeves.

Arrest of White House pickets Catherine Flanagan of Hartford, Connecticut (left), and Madeleine Watson of Chicago (right), as they picket with banners before the White House East Gate. Heckling sailor to left, policemen left and right, arresting…

Report from the American Labor Party, Mary Seymour reports on ways of African American women working in tobacco fields in the sourthern United States

Mary Seymore (sic), a suffragette and organizer of a labor union in Hartford, Connecticut, where she is a candidate for the state legislature on the Farmer-Labor ticket.
The Chicago Defender (Big Weekend Edition) (1905-1966); Chicago, Ill. [Chicago,…

Woman's Party holds demonstration in N Y C, 6 leaders arrested following burning of Metropolitan Opera House speech ;
6 leaders arrested in N T C following demonstration against Pres Wilson, whose speech is burnt

Woman's Party holds demonstration in N Y C, 6 leaders arrested following burning of Metropolitan Opera House speech ;
6 leaders arrested in Washington D.C. following demonstration against Pres Wilson, whose speech is burnt.

Minnie Hennessey of Hartford, CT, was a self-supporting business woman. She was arrested for picketing the White House Oct. 6, 1917, and her sentence was suspended. Rearrested Oct. 8, 1917, she was sentenced to 6 months in prison. (Doris Stevens,…

Hill was a graduate of Vassar College and Montana School of Mines.  She was a geologist, daughter of a member of Congress, and a vice-president of the DAR.  She was a prominent member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National…