The collection is useful for tracing the chronological development of the woman suffrage movement. Students can find pictures and images of people and events which lead to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, originally proposed as the Sixteenth Amendment in 1878. Students can relate the collection contents to a timeline of women's rights. Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Anthony Amendment , January 6, 1920. One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage on the collection home page, students will find a listing of events in the fight for woman suffrage.
Students can find examples from the collection that illustrate events on the timeline.
Lucy Stone , ca. Students can also browse through the 20 portraits in the collection and use visual clues to determine when the photographs were taken in relation to one another. The quality, type, and setting of the photograph in addition to the women's style of fashion all suggest an era in which the image was created. Search on the subject term portrait photograph to a retrieve a list of these twenty photographs. Anna Howard Shaw , ca.