The election this week focused our attention on a Bullis Collection book about a local women who played a significant role in attaining voting rights for women: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony: Including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years, by Ida Husted Harper (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1899). The title describes the contents, and it is a good read for anyone who wants to learn more about the struggle for suffrage in this country.
We wonder if Nettie Bullis read Ida Harper's book and how she might have been influenced by its message. The latter, we'll focus on in another posting.
Until then, please stop by the Bullis Room when you're in the library. If no one is on duty in the room when you're there, you can still look at the Bullis books displayed in the glassed case to the left of the window.
P.S. We also noticed that on this day in 1872, Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. (She was convicted but never paid the $100 fine give her by the judge.)
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