style of dress reform she would wear for the rest of her
(1818–1894), who promoted them, were loose trousers
worn under a long coat or short dress, which were much
more comfortable than long dresses and corsets, which
a 12” x 6” grape box that served as a women’s ballot box.
In total, 172 women, including four African Americans,
voted at the Vineland poll.
At this early period, the New Jersey Woman
than a group representing local women’s organizations. Most of these activists either came
County appear to have been represented.
County in 1868. Although she lived there for almost twenty years, she did not get involved
volumes of the monumental
Cartoon, Daily Graphic, 1874
Courtesy of the Vineland Historical and
Antiquarian Society
Elizabeth Cady Stanton house, Tenafly, NJ
National Register of Historic Places, National Park
Service. Photo by Cathy Alexander for the American
Association for State and Local History
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