Trending...
- Boston: Mayor Wu Announces 2025 Mayor's Youth Summit
- Kevin Lanouette Named Senior Vice President and General Counsel
- Nayarit: Mexico's Best-Kept Secret for Fall and Winter Getaways in 2025
~ In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed, granting women the right to vote. This monumental event was marked by over 50,000 Boston women registering to vote. The Boston City Archives now holds these records, which document women's names, addresses, places of birth and occupations. In some cases, additional information about their naturalization process is also included.
The Mary Eliza Project has taken on the task of transcribing these valuable handwritten records into an easily searchable and sortable dataset. Recently, they have finished transcribing the Ward 16 registers and added them to their dataset.
Ward 16 covered a large part of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood in 1920 and ran from Blue Hill Avenue to Walnut and Washington Streets. Over 200 of Ward 16's new voters had birthplaces located in present-day Eastern Europe, pointing to the thriving Jewish community in Roxbury at the time. Congregation Adath Jeshurun on Blue Hill Avenue was a popular synagogue for this community and attracted many new families and individuals to the area.
More on Boston Chron
Annie Stone was one of Ward 16's new voters who made history as Boston's oldest woman voter at 102 years old! She registered to vote two days after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified and even made a special hat for the occasion when she cast her ballot for Calvin Coolidge. The Boston Globe sent a reporter to interview her about her plans for voting in her first federal election and found that she had been keeping up with political news every morning despite her failing eyesight.
Annie Stone's story is only one of many that can be found in this new addition to the Mary Eliza Project dataset. With this data now available online, anyone can explore these records and uncover more stories like Annie Stone's that are hidden within them.
The Mary Eliza Project has taken on the task of transcribing these valuable handwritten records into an easily searchable and sortable dataset. Recently, they have finished transcribing the Ward 16 registers and added them to their dataset.
Ward 16 covered a large part of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood in 1920 and ran from Blue Hill Avenue to Walnut and Washington Streets. Over 200 of Ward 16's new voters had birthplaces located in present-day Eastern Europe, pointing to the thriving Jewish community in Roxbury at the time. Congregation Adath Jeshurun on Blue Hill Avenue was a popular synagogue for this community and attracted many new families and individuals to the area.
More on Boston Chron
- IntellaTriage Launches New Patient Engagement Service
- Momentum Stock Trading: AI-Driven by Tickeron
- IntellaTriage Launches New Patient Engagement Service
- Cascadia Global Security Launches Cascadia Off-Duty
- CathVision to Showcase Innovations at AF Symposium, Present New Science
Annie Stone was one of Ward 16's new voters who made history as Boston's oldest woman voter at 102 years old! She registered to vote two days after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified and even made a special hat for the occasion when she cast her ballot for Calvin Coolidge. The Boston Globe sent a reporter to interview her about her plans for voting in her first federal election and found that she had been keeping up with political news every morning despite her failing eyesight.
Annie Stone's story is only one of many that can be found in this new addition to the Mary Eliza Project dataset. With this data now available online, anyone can explore these records and uncover more stories like Annie Stone's that are hidden within them.
0 Comments
Latest on Boston Chron
- WalkerHughes Insurance Expands Footprint With Acquisition of Independent Brokers Agency LLC
- Hawk Tuah VIP Shop launches Exclusive Merchandise line for Viral Meme Fans
- Orcas Island Property Owner Returns Two Prime Waterfront Properties to the Market
- 51Fifty Rifles Unveils Precision Hunting Rifle Line for 2025
- Muench Workshops Welcomes New Partners Luke Dray and Sara Linssen, Announces Retirement of Andy Williams
- SpendMend and Yankee Alliance Partner to Revolutionize Purchased Services Management
- NuNorm Announces Stop Soldier Suicide as This Year's EQUAL Grant Recipient
- Darrin Jones: The Creative Force Behind the Trends—Raising Questions About Influence in The Weeknd's Music
- SmartBear Delivers AI-Driven Hubs to Transform Software Quality and Accelerate High-Quality Delivery
- Tenth Season of Award-Winning Love Letters Podcast by The Boston Globe focuses on the Possibility of Change
- Foresight Practitioner Conference 2025 – Dates, Venue, Speakers, And Competition Finalists Announced
- Boston Public Schools Launches New Website
- Latest Updates to Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice and Birth Injury Law
- Best Plant Varieties for Windbreaks and Shelterbelts
- Boston: Affordable Homeownership Opportunities in Dorchester: 270 Talbot Avenue
- InventHelp Inventor Develops Specially Designed Candleholder (BKC-250)
- Phyllo Wins SmartBear's Developer Visibility Award for Excellence in Collaboration and Innovation
- Genuine Hospitality, LLC Expands Leadership Team with Key Appointments
- New-and-Improved Caribbean-Food Website Dishes Out Free Ground-Shipping Offer; Affiliate Program Garnished with Generous Commission
- Boston: Mayor Michelle Wu Refiles Residential Tax Relief Legislation