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Women's History in Hartford: Women's Suffrage

A Guide to the Women's History Resources Available at the Hartford History Center

Photographs

Hartford Times Photographs  

“League of Women Voters” (2 relevant photos), box 10

“Associations: Women’s Liberation” (1 suffrage photo, other general), box 11

 

HCOLL Photographs

C50 “Suffrage Headquarters, 55 Pratt Street.  Mrs. George Day at the Files, Mrs. M Bennett at the desk, Miss C M Flanagan at the register, Miss Elizabeth Flanagan at the multigraph”.

Periodicals

Connecticut Explored

“Suffragettes” Fall 2005, volume 3, #4.

“Women’s Rights” Fall 2005, volume 3, #4 and Spring 2010, volume 8, #2.

 

Suffrage News Bulletin

April 1918 – October 1920

Call Number: JK1880.C66

Scrapbooks

Hartford Scrapbooks

Volume 7 page 55 “Suffrage Parade”

Volume 15 page 149 “Katherine B Day” and “Mrs. T.H. Hepburn”

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Pamphlet Collection

1899 McAdam, S. M. “Suffrage in Connecticut.  A study and Proposal”.

1900 Hooker, Isabella Beecher “The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States”.

1902 Hooker, Isabella Beecher “Memorial of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association to the Constitutional Convention Assembled in Hartford, Connecticut, January 1, 1902.”

Vertical Files

Social Issues and Organizations: Suffrage (1of 1)

History: Women Who Have helped Make Hartford (1 of 1)

Biography: Isabella Beecher Hooker (1of 1).

Books

Remarkable Women of Hartford

Boynton, Cynthia Wolfe

Call Number: F104.H3 B69 2014

 

History of Woman Suffrage

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Call Number: JK1896.S8 1881A CS Ref Volumes 1-6

 

Woman Suffrage and Woman’s Profession

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Call Number: HI 1871 BEECHER

 

Woman’s Suffrage: The Reform Against Nature

Bushnell, Horace

Call Number: JK1901.B96

 

Woman’s Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Call Number: LKC1421.B42

 

Legal Disabilities of Married Women in Connecticut

Hickox, George A.

Call Number: HI 1871 HICKOX


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