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Deed of Land
Purchased by Blandina Kiersted Bayard from Hackensack Indians, 1700. |
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The Schuyler
Patent, map by William Bond, 1710. |
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"An
Invitation Ode to a Young Lady in New York From Her Friend in the
Country," by Annis Boudinot Stockton, New Brunswick, 1753. |
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Runaway
Wives, 1760. |
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New Jersey
Colonists sense the coming conflict with Great Britain and make
preparations. Diary of Jemima Condict (1754-1779), 1775. |
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1776 - 1843 |
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Margaret
Morris's Revolutionary War Experience, 1776. |
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"To
General Washington" by Annis Boudinot Stockton, 1783. |
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The
Ladies of Trenton Assemble, 1780. |
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A Petition by Rachel Lovell
Wells, 1786. The text of the petition of a Bordentown sculptor and widow to the
Continental Congress for relief after the Revolutionary War, May 18, 1786. |
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Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly of New Jersey. This document refers to voters as
both "he" and "she," 1790. |
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An Act to
regulate the election of members of the legislative council and general assembly, sheriffs
and coroners, in this State. This act allowed voting by women, 1797. |
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"To Be Sold," newspaper advertisement for a slave woman, 1797. |
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Letter from Gavin Scott of Elizabethtown to his
brother in Alnwich, England, 1800. |
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Hannah Kinney's records of the Newark Female
Charitable Society, 1803 -1804. |
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"Manumission of Abigail," a manuscript document freeing the slave woman Abigail in
Piscataway, Middlesex County, 1808. |
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Certificate of Abandonment, Piscataway Township, New Jersey. This document
freed a slave owner from any obligations to the child born to her slave, 1806. |
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Acts of the Thirty-second General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, 1807. This act
limits voting to free white, male citizens. |
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The
Manumission of Ann and Rufus Johnson, 1828. |
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"The
Little Wanderer" by Esther "Hetty" Saunders
(1793-1862), c.1840. |
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Mary Paul's letter from the
North American Phalanx, describes her life and work in the community, 1854. |
| 1844-1879 |
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Martha
Washington Salem Union No. 6., Daughters of Temperance, a portion of the charter of
an early women's temperance union, 1846. |
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Married
Women's Property Act, 1852. This was the first New Jersey law reforming married women's
property rights. |
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Report of
the Assembly Committee on Women's Rights, 1857. A response to the petition of Harriet M.
LaFetra. |
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Lucy
Stone's Protest of Taxation Without Representation. Her letter to the tax assessor,
signaling her refusal to pay property taxes, 1858. |
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"My
Jersey Blue" by Ellen Clementine Howarth (1827-1899),1864. |
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"The
Tress of Golden Hair," by Trenton poet Ellen Clementine Howarth (1827-1899),
1864. |
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The Founding Convention of
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. A newspaper account of the proceedings, 1867. |
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"Women
Suffrage in New Jersey." An address delivered by Lucy Stone, at a hearing
before the New Jersey Legislature, March 6th, 1867. |
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Portia Gage Tries to Vote
in Vineland. A description by an early suffragist of her attempt to vote in a municipal
election, 1868. |
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Petition to
the New Jersey Legislature from Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell. A letter
on woman suffrage and property rights, 1868. |
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Report of
the Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Assembly, April 9,1868. This report denies the
Stone and Blackwell petition for woman suffrage and property rights. |
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The
Paterson Daily Press reports on the New Jersey Senate, March 24,1869. According to
the report the New Jersey Senate mocks the suffrage petition sent by the New Jersey Woman
Suffrage Association. |
| 1880-1920 |
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Leonora M.
Barry's Report on Women's Work in New Jersey. The Knights of Labor inspector of
women's work inspects Trenton, Newark, Bordentown, Lambertville and Paterson, 1887. |
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New Jersey
School Suffrage Act, enfranchises rural and small town women in school matters, 1887. |
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Julia
Keese Nelson Colles’ manuscript about Newark author Mary Mapes Dodge, 1892.
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Newark
Female Charitable Society, 1903. |
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Pillar of Fire, November 25, 1914. Cover of church publication
picturing a group of women missionaries. |
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Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Flynn recalls strike assemblies and
women's meetings, 1913. |
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Bill
Haywood Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Haywood comments on women's role in the
strike, 1913. |
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Table,
"1915 Suffrage Referendum, Vote by Counties." |
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Statement
concerning the opposition of liquor interests to woman suffrage in New
Jersey, Women’s Political Union. |
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"Some
Things Accomplished at Whittier House"
19th annual Report of Whittier House. |
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NJ State
Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, War-time Address to the 3rd
annual convention, 1918. |
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New
Jersey State Federation News, September 1927. Front page of the newspaper
of the NJ State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, with photograph of founder, Florence
Spearing Randolph, and history of early years of the organization. |
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Pioneer
Suffragist Casts G. O. P. Ballot. Newspaper coverage of Antoinette Brown Blackwell's visit
to the polls, 1920. |
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State of New Jersey Senate Concurrent Resolution, No. 1
ratifying the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution granting
woman suffrage. 1920 |
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New Jersey League of Women
Voters, minutes of first meeting, 1920. |
| 1921-1960 |
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Newspaper
article by Beatrice Winser, director of Newark Public Library, 1923. |
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The New
Jersey Republican, April 1923. Cover photo of Juliet Clannon Cushing being
congratulated for the passage of the night work bill. |
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"How
New Jersey Laws Discriminate Against Women" flyer published by the National
Woman's Party, 1925. |
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Lillian Ford Feickert
(1877-1945), campaign flyer for her 1928 United States Senate candidacy. |
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Invitation
to attend the organizational meeting of the World Center for Women’s
Archives, 1936. |
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Constitution
and Platform of the Sterilization League of New Jersey, 1937. |
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Typescript,
"Review of Achievements of the NJ League of Women Voters, 1923
- 1939," 1939. |
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100 Famous Jersey Women, news article about the World
Center for Women’s Archives, 1941.
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World War II Ration Book and Stamps, 1942. |
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Rachel K. McDowell's National Federation
of Press Women, Inc. membership card, 1945.
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"Banker
in High Heels, " reprint of article on Mary Roebling (1905-1994), from
the Greater Philadelphia Magazine, July 1952. |
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New Jersey Wage Discrimination Act. This act was New Jersey's first equal pay
act, 1952. |
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Campaign
Flyer for Representative Florence Price Dwyer (1902-1976) illustrating the techniques she
used to appeal to voters, 1956. |
| 1961-- |
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Press
Release from Representative Florence Dwyer's Office detailing fight for Federal Equal Pay
Legislation,1963. |
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Copy of
telegram from Republican Congresswomen Florence Price Dwyer to President Nixon reminding
him to release the report of a Task Force on Women, 1969. |
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New
Directions for Women, 1972. This is the front page of the second issue, published in
the Fall of 1972. |
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"Ann Klein for
Governor." Democratic primary campaign flyer, 1973. |
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"Equity in Educational
Programs," 1975. The text of the regulations published by the New Jersey Department
of Education to implement equal education requirements. |
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"Christie
Whitman’s Blueprint for a Better Education," 1993, a campaign flyer. |