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Vol. 24:3 ISSN 0160-8460 December 1996
Campaigning for Women's Suffrage in Rural Nevada, July 1914
Martin was president of the Nevada Equal Franchise Society, which organized members to canvas the state promoting a suffrage amendment to the Nevada constitution. This was no small task in a state where 20,000 male voters were spread over 112,000 square miles. Vernon, from Delaware, was dispatched by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to assist in the effort, and she and Martin crisscrossed the state in the convertible pictured here. The Nevada suffrage amendment was approved in 1914, largely because of support by rural voters. Credit: Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Library. The photograph was discovered in a vertical file at the Carson City Public Library by Nevada Women's Archives Project surveyor Jean Ford. The project is supported by an NHPRC grant to the University of Nevada, Reno. Ford found public library clipping and vertical files to be rich sources of historical information about the activities of women in Nevada. The library donated its suffrage photographs to the women's archives project, where they will be processed by a project curator.
Campaigning for Women's Suffrage in Nevada: Miss Mabel Vernon (center) and Miss Anne Martin (right), with driver, campaigning for women's suffrage in rural Nevada, July, 1914.
