Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1907-1943 (inclusive).

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Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1907-1943 (inclusive).

Collection includes correspondence and photograph of Ames, and a memorial address about her.

2 folders.

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Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government

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Suffragists Maud Wood Park, Pauline Agassiz Shaw, and Mary Hutcheson Page were among those who in 1901 founded the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG) "to promote a better civic life, the true development of the home and the welfare of the family, through the exercise of suffrage on the part of the women citizens of Boston." After 1920, BESAGG became the Boston League of Women Voters. For further historical information see Lois Bannister Merk, Massachusetts and the Wom...

Ames, Fanny Baker, 1840-1931.

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Ames held various offices in Massachusetts and New England suffrage associations, including the presidency of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1907-1943 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008752 ...