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Women Voters Frisco - Registering shop girls & clerks (LOC)

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Women Voters Frisco - Registering shop girls & clerks

[1911 or later]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from negative.
Photo shows women in San Francisco, CA, registering to vote. California adopted women's suffrage in Oct. 1911. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11215

Call Number: LC-B2- 2485-10

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Sonomabuzz, iheartnewyork, stellag, Alexandrialeigh, and 35 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. matt21cdog (61 months ago | reply)

    That dude on the right hasn't yet got the concept: He thinks it's a peep show.

    Great image!

  3. rockcreek (61 months ago | reply)

    Wish I knew the proper names of some of the feathered hats these women are wearing to add them as tags - some interesting fashion history in this shot!

  4. whyaduck (61 months ago | reply)

    This photo most likely dates from 1911 or soon after. Though the legislature of California passed a bill granting women the vote as early as 1893, it was vetoed by Governor Henry Markham. In 1896, a referendum to legalize woman suffrage in the state failed. It was not until the election of October, 1911, that another referendum passed by a large margin, and California's women voted for the first time later that year.

  5. The Library of Congress (61 months ago | reply)

    Whyaduck: Thanks for the information about the probable date. We'll add the information in the source data and reload the description.

  6. Harry Angstrom (59 months ago | reply)

    I work in San Francisco. Nobody around here calls it "Frisco". Ever.

  7. Zombie Pinups (43 months ago | reply)

    Please don't call it Frisco.

  8. whyaduck (43 months ago | reply)

    Yes, it's horribly insulting to the citizens of any of the real Friscos!

  9. Wystan (33 months ago | reply)

    Another Bain/LOC 1912 photo connected with women voting in California:

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