Aug. 18 marks 103 years since women were legally allowed to vote nationwide. In Boston, women lined up from all neighborhoods to exercise that right. Now those records from that 1920 presidential election are being digitized in a searchable database. We learn more about the Mary Eliza Mahoney Project, including about some of the women who cast their ballots.
Ward 4 voter rolls from the 1920 presidential election. They contain the names of the first women to register to vote in the city.
She added that besides the handwriting being hard to read at times, the records are not indexed or organized alphabetically. Rather, names of women were written down in the order they appeared in line. In response to the high turnout of registrants, the city election department had to hire more staff members. It set up special booths in individual wards where people could register until 9 p.m., which was ideal for working women who couldn't get to City Hall before closing.The registration record included details like citizenship, occupation and place of birth.
"Some of those men didn't even really want to appear in public or reconnect with their families because of their, you know, internalized feelings about their appearance and how it had changed," Prieto said."So in her studio, she would invite in these individual soldiers and make casts of their faces."
Cross-checking information in that way allowed researchers to create a deeper understanding of the community women had built for themselves across the city, according to Wiebe. For example, up to 800 working women and students lived in South End's Franklin Square House at the time.
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