Petition for Woman Suffrage to the New York State Constitutional Convention.
A Collection Of Flowers
For Woman’s Suffrage
Petition for Woman Suffrage to the New York State Constitutional Convention, To Be Held In Albany, May, 1894…[Rochester, New York; Constitutional Convention Campaign Committee Headquarters, n.d. (circa 1893-4)].
4to.; 30 pages; flowers and leaves amateurly glued to most printed pages, occasional handwritten annotations below; brown cardboard covers, sewn; front cover with pasted on printed label, lightly chipped at edges, reading: “Petition for Woman Suffrage to the New York State Constitutional Convention, To Be Held In Albany, May, 1894….return to Jean Brooks Greenleaf, Chairman of the Consitutional Convention Campaign Committee Headquarters, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y.” In a specially made cloth slipcase.
An intriguing bit of ephemera from the woman’s suffrage era: apparently a scrapbook kept by a suffrage supporter who filled her petition pages with flowers rather than with names. (The pages are each printed with a place for name and P.O. Address, but the book contains no signatures, only botanical samples.) There are occasional handwritten emendations near the samples – one of these, dated 1897, leads us to believe that this scrapbook was compiled by a suffrage supporter using one of the extra petition pads left over after the suffrage petition was submitted to the NY State Constitutional Convention in 1984.
A curious, and undoubtedly unique, memento of the women’s suffrage era, apparently compiled by an anonymous supporter who wanted to record and remember that history in her own special way.
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