Thanks!

Westport’s Suffragists—Our Neighbors, Our Crusaders is generously supported by the Estate of Jerry A. Tishman, Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, and Connecticut Humanities.

Guest Curator: Kathleen Motes Bennewitz
Exhibit Design: Carole Erger-Fass

Project Manager: Jennifer Bangser
Westport Reads 2020 Co-chairs: Mary Brown, Jennifer Keller
Exhibit Curator: Carole Erger-Fass
Westport Library Art Committee: MaryEllen Hendricks, Anne Levine, Joan Miller, Ellen Naftalin, Katherine Ross

Exhibition lenders:

American Numismatic Society, New York, NY
Choate Rosemary Hall Archives and Special Collections, Wallingford, CT
Donna Davis
Edward F. Gerber
GRAHAM SHAY 1857, New York, NY
Harpswell Builders, Redding, CT
Ellen Naftalin 
David O’Neill
Gil Rodriquez, Gilan Books, Darien, CT
Ann Sheffer
Stamford Historical Society, CT

Image credits:

Ancestry.com
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Susan Scott, Bonniebrook Gallery, Museum and Homestead
Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections
Connecticut State Library, State Archives
Fairfield Museum and History Center
Dr. Kenneth Florey
Edward F. Gerber
Nancy Healy
Henry Street Settlement
Jewish Women’s Archive
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Morris Museum of Art, Center for the Study of Southern Art
Norwalk Public Library, Local History Room
Ann Sheffer
Bill Scheffler
Stamford Historical Society

On the homepage:

Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Treasurer Josephine Beach Bennett before CWSA banner with her daughters, 1914. Courtesy, Dr. Kenneth Florey.

Westport suffragists joined the Connecticut delegation at annual marches in New York City. View of 1913 parade at Fifth Avenue and Broadway. Courtesy, Dr. Kenneth Florey.

Elsie Hill of Norwalk and Betty Gram Swing, who moved to Westport in the 1930s, with fellow National Woman’s Party members picketing the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago. Courtesy, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage Headquarters, Washington, D.C., by Harris & Ewing, photographers. Courtesy, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Westport suffragists presidents brought in notable speakers and CWSA leaders —Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Annie G. Porritt, Josephine Bennett and Alyse Gregory among them—to Westport for public rallies and league meetings. Courtesy, Dr. Kenneth Florey.

Fairfield County CWSA suffragists, dressed in allegorical regalia aboard an automobile decorated with American flags and suffrage colors, at a Stamford parade, c. 1914. Courtesy, Stamford Historical Society.