Anna Coleman Ladd was renowned for her bronzes and for her work with the American Red Cross, creating a facial prosthetics for a World War I soldiers. Learn more in our new blog post! Link to website in bio.
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#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
September 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Anna Coleman Ladd was renowned for her bronzes and for her work with the American Red Cross, creating a facial prosthetics for a World War I soldiers. Learn more in our new blog post! Link to website in bio.
#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
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For Medical Lab Worker Week, we are focusing on 1920 Boston New Voter Ethel M. Howard (Wetmore), listed in the registries as performing Laboratory Work at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now part of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Image from the MIT Museum
April 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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As we wrap up Jewish American Heritage Month, we recognize German-born 1920 Boston New Voters and Dorchester residents Hedwig “Haidee” Kaminsky Rosenblum and her widowed mother Emilie Neumann Kaminsky.
Image from The Boston Globe, May 5, 1902, pg. 3
Image from The Boston Globe, May 5, 1902, pg. 3
May 29, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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The Mary Eliza Project on the News!!!
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#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
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54,000 women registered to vote in Boston in 1920; Is your great-grandmother on the list?
When the 19th Amendment was ratified, 54,000 women in Boston registered to vote. Now you can search the database to see if your relative was among the trailblazers.
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September 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
The Mary Eliza Project on the News!!!
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#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
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Today WBUR replayed its Radio Boston interview with me and my amazing #MaryElizaProject colleagues Marta Crilly & Erin Wiebe. It was so much fun talking to Carrie Jung about the archives and stories of the city’s newly enfranchised women voters. #womenshistory
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February 9, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Today WBUR replayed its Radio Boston interview with me and my amazing #MaryElizaProject colleagues Marta Crilly & Erin Wiebe. It was so much fun talking to Carrie Jung about the archives and stories of the city’s newly enfranchised women voters. #womenshistory
www.wbur.org/radioboston/... 🗃️
www.wbur.org/radioboston/... 🗃️
1920 new Boston voters and #Dorchester sisters Vera M. (Warren) Nicholls and Bessie Warren both worked as Superintendents for different locations of Laboratory Kitchen Lunch Rooms, founded in 1903 by Bertha Stevenson. #MaryElizaProject @universalhub.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
1920 new Boston voters and #Dorchester sisters Vera M. (Warren) Nicholls and Bessie Warren both worked as Superintendents for different locations of Laboratory Kitchen Lunch Rooms, founded in 1903 by Bertha Stevenson. #MaryElizaProject @universalhub.com
In honor of #NationalWomensEqualityDay, we are sharing the #MaryElizaProject! The project created a searchable database of the more than 50,000 women who registered to vote in Boston after the passage of the 19th amendment. Learn more about the project at: ow.ly/28cH50WLBrI
August 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In honor of #NationalWomensEqualityDay, we are sharing the #MaryElizaProject! The project created a searchable database of the more than 50,000 women who registered to vote in Boston after the passage of the 19th amendment. Learn more about the project at: ow.ly/28cH50WLBrI
In my latest post for the Mary Eliza Project, I wrote about reformer Zilpha Drew Smith, registering to vote in Boston in 1920.
#WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject
#WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject
Born #OTD, January 25, was one of the earliest Boston women to claim their equal right to vote: Zilpha Drew Smith (1852-1926). She registered to vote on August 4, 1920, weeks before Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment.
Image: Registry from Boston City Archives
Image: Registry from Boston City Archives
January 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
In my latest post for the Mary Eliza Project, I wrote about reformer Zilpha Drew Smith, registering to vote in Boston in 1920.
#WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject
#WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject
We have a website [sites.google.com/view/maryelizaproject/]! Our website brings together all of our work and resources: links to the dataset and research materials, the story of our project and our team, and maps and data visualizations. We'll also update the site with any upcoming events!
March 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
We have a website [sites.google.com/view/maryelizaproject/]! Our website brings together all of our work and resources: links to the dataset and research materials, the story of our project and our team, and maps and data visualizations. We'll also update the site with any upcoming events!
An active member of the settlement house movement, Bertha Hazard founded Boston's Hemenway House of Cooperative Living, a cooperative living home for working girls and women. She registered to vote in Boston on September 17th, 1920
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#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
March 24, 2026 at 4:48 PM
An active member of the settlement house movement, Bertha Hazard founded Boston's Hemenway House of Cooperative Living, a cooperative living home for working girls and women. She registered to vote in Boston on September 17th, 1920
#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
#MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
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During #NationalAviationWeek, we recognize 1920 Boston New Voter Helen Messinger Murdoch (1862-1956), who took Boston's first aerial Autochrome photograph in 1928. Image from Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
August 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Recorded as born in Milan, Italy, Carolina M. (Colombo) Piotti was a founder of the Women’s Italian Club of Boston. She resided in Dorchester from 1895 until her death in 1957. #ItalianAmericanHeritageMonth #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Recorded as born in Milan, Italy, Carolina M. (Colombo) Piotti was a founder of the Women’s Italian Club of Boston. She resided in Dorchester from 1895 until her death in 1957. #ItalianAmericanHeritageMonth #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
The #MaryElizaProject is presenting at Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research conference on Jan. 3rd. We’re looking forward to sharing our experiences with interdisciplinary collaboration and learning from others. Image credit: 1912, New York Public Library. Post by Marta Crilly
January 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The #MaryElizaProject is presenting at Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research conference on Jan. 3rd. We’re looking forward to sharing our experiences with interdisciplinary collaboration and learning from others. Image credit: 1912, New York Public Library. Post by Marta Crilly
March 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Chocolate dipping required significant training, and most 1920 Boston advertisements for chocolate dippers sought experienced dippers. In 1914, the Census Bureau reported that 60% of workers in United States candy factories were women. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Chocolate dipping required significant training, and most 1920 Boston advertisements for chocolate dippers sought experienced dippers. In 1914, the Census Bureau reported that 60% of workers in United States candy factories were women. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
Mark your calendars for a #MaryElizaProject public event! Come meet some of the Mary Eliza Team members as we present live and in person:
BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE
Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers
Free and Open to the Public!
BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE
Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers
Free and Open to the Public!
January 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mark your calendars for a #MaryElizaProject public event! Come meet some of the Mary Eliza Team members as we present live and in person:
BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE
Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers
Free and Open to the Public!
BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE
Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers
Free and Open to the Public!
Emilie Neumann Kaminsky registered to vote on October 6, 1920, one of the 126 women who registered that day in Boston’s Ward 16. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory
May 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Emilie Neumann Kaminsky registered to vote on October 6, 1920, one of the 126 women who registered that day in Boston’s Ward 16. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory
My work with the #MaryElizaProject is on the road. Fun talk about mapping birthplaces of CT born now voters in the dataset and why human practical sense is important when working in the #DigitalHumanities #CTDH
March 19, 2026 at 10:49 PM
My work with the #MaryElizaProject is on the road. Fun talk about mapping birthplaces of CT born now voters in the dataset and why human practical sense is important when working in the #DigitalHumanities #CTDH
One of my favorite Mary Eliza Project stories "Boston Born Derina Watts MacDougall (age 27) “I am a suffragette... I look forward to the time when women will plead cases at the bar as well as men, and I hope to be one of them to do it.”' #HATM #HATM www.instagram.com/p/C-aTEYqxWa9/
Mary Eliza Project on Instagram: "For many new voters, claiming their right to vote was part of their larger activism work. On August 7th,1920, after learning she had passed the Massachusetts Bar Exam...
27 likes, 1 comments - maryelizaproject on August 8, 2024: "For many new voters, claiming their right to vote was part of their larger activism work. On August 7th,1920, after learning she had passed ...
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August 26, 2024 at 12:59 AM
One of my favorite Mary Eliza Project stories "Boston Born Derina Watts MacDougall (age 27) “I am a suffragette... I look forward to the time when women will plead cases at the bar as well as men, and I hope to be one of them to do it.”' #HATM #HATM www.instagram.com/p/C-aTEYqxWa9/
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As many of us head back to school, today’s #VoteroftheDay is veteran teacher Mabel Vivian Shaw (1879-1979), who registered to vote in Boston on September 8th, 1920. Image: 1906 Mirror, Edmund Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College
September 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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My latest post #MaryElizaProject
The new voter registries list 273 new voters born in Providence, Rhode Island, including sisters Housewife Rose L. (Boughan) Shiels (1866-1929) and Mary J. Boughan (1873?-1935). The registries list Mary J. Boughan as a clerk working for the Saxony Worsted Mills in Newton, Massachusetts.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Today’s #VoterOfTheDay is South Boston's Helen F. Merrill (later Hopkins), who registered to vote in Boston School Board Elections on November 27, 1918. In 1907, she earned a third-year diploma from South Boston High School. Image: @bpl.boston.gov #BostonHistory #WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Also, Zaidee Williams Jackson (1897 –1970), a jazz musician who registered to vote in Boston in 1920 #MaryElizaProject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaidee_...
Zaidee Jackson - Wikipedia
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November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Also, Zaidee Williams Jackson (1897 –1970), a jazz musician who registered to vote in Boston in 1920 #MaryElizaProject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaidee_...
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As many of us head back to school, we recognize two of the nine voters who worked at High School for the Practical Arts in Roxbury. The school opened in 1913 to teach girls home and work skills, including nursing and home economics. Image from Boston Women’s
Heritage Trail
Heritage Trail
September 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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My latest post #MaryElizaProject
On #PresidentsDay 1914 (celebrated as Washington’s Birthday), future new voter Eunice S. Coyle won second prize, $25, for her essay on how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall interpreted the Constitution from he Old South Association. Image: @BostonGlobe, February 24, 1914.
February 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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