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Mary Jean Simpson was born in East Craftsbury, Vermont and attended Craftsbury Academy, Wheaton Seminary in Massachusetts, and St. Johnsbury Academy from which she graduated in 1908. She went on to the University of Vermont, but transferred to Mount…

Edna Louise Beard was the first Vermont woman to be elected to the Vermont House of Representatives and to the Vermont Senate. Three months after the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 giving women suffrage, Beard took office as Representative from…

Desk #145 from the Vermont State House, now part of the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, was used by both Edna Beard and Consuelo Northrop Bailey.

Beard chose the desk at random, at the beginning of her first term as the first woman…

Announcement of speech by the Honorable A.B. Gardner at the Washington County Convention, to be held in Montpelier on Tuesday, August 20, 1872. Abraham Brodkins Gardner, a Republican, was the Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1863…

Poster for a Montpelier Republican Caucus meeting at Village Hall, to be held the evening of Saturday, September 4th.

Small document listing the delegates to the Republican State Convention: T.N. Vail, A.D. Paige, W.I. Powers, C.L. Stuart, and G.M. Campbell. These are likely the Caledonia County delegates to the 1916 convention.

Republican ticket for delegates to the Constitutional Convention: Albert M. Shaw, John L. Spring, Francis A. Cushman, and Nathan B. Stearns

Poster for a Republican rally at the State House Common, Montpelier, VT on Thursday, September 2nd. The rally was to begin with a speech by Bernard Peters, owner of the Brooklyn Times, a newspaper affiliated with the Republican Party. The event also…

Poster for a Republican rally at the opera house in Enosburg Falls featuring Honorable E. S. Brigham of Montpelier and Miss Consuelo Northrop of Washington, DC. Elbert Sidney Brigham represented Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives from…

Drama performed by the Knights of Pythias, Barre. Antonio M. Rossi (the man writing in a notebook) portrays a reporter investigating a shooting incident.

Drama performed by the Knights of Pythias, Barre. Antonio M. Rossi (the man writing in a notebook) portrays a reporter investigating a shooting incident.

Cast of the Italian Dramatic Club's "Othello" in costume.