Votes for Women:
Celebrating New York’s Women’s Suffrage History
Nov. 4, 5:00-8:00 pm
NYS Museum
The LWV of NYS Education Foundation & The NYS Archives Partnership Trust invite you to a special evening reception celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in New York State and the opening of the State Museum’s Votes for Women Exhibit.
Coline Jenkins, great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will speak about growing up in a family of women activist. In addition to Stanton, her great grandmother Harriot Stanton Blatch, worked as a major organizer of New York State woman suffrage during the Militant Period of 1913-1915. Her grandmother, Nora Stanton Blatch DeForest Barney, was the first female civil engineer to graduate (1905) from Cornell. Jenkins’ mother was born one month prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution in 1920. Jenkins grew up in an atmosphere of suffrage and women’s right campaigning.
Museum staff will also serve as guides as we have private access to this new exhibit on women’s suffrage history.
You can purchase tickets to the reception online here or click here to download, print and mail in the registration form or call the state League office (518-465-4162) to make a reservation. Join us!
Hotel Rooms
We have secured a block of hotel rooms at a reduced price for the night of November 4th – so you don’t have to drive home after our celebration! The block disappears on October 4, though, so reserved your room NOW!
Towneplace Suites – $99 Studios and $109 for 1 bedroom suite
22 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12209
Tel: 518-860-1509
Use Code LWVW to get the reduced rate
Click here for their website.
Hampton Inn – $119 a room
25 Chapel St, Albany, NY 12210
Tel: 518-432-7000
Use Code CHXLW2
Click here for their website.
