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| Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 94-84.4 |
Showing posts with label automobiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automobiles. Show all posts
Friday, November 28, 2014
Friday Photo: Standing on the Car
Friday, September 19, 2014
Friday Photo: Ashland
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| Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 981-997 |
Friday, November 8, 2013
Friday Photo: Dolly Davis
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| Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 97-72.7 |
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Election Day Special: Woman Suffrage
Women voters have been assiduously courted in this election, and they're likely to sway the outcome. Here's a look back at the history of women's right to vote in Montana.
When miners discovered gold at Grasshopper Creek in 1862, women in the United States could not vote, could not work in most professions, and could not attend most colleges. The road to woman suffrage was very long. Between 1869 and 1871, seven western legislatures considered giving women the vote. Montana was not one of them. Men dominated Montana Territory seven to one. There were a few small steps. In 1887, an amendment to Montana’s territorial constitution gave women the right to vote in school elections and the right to hold elected positions as school trustees and county superintendents. Equality stopped there. The authors of Montana’s first state constitution—all men—considered granting women the right to vote in 1889. But the idea met defeat forty-three to twenty-five. Montana women, however, organized in the 1890s, founding the Montana Woman Suffrage Association and the Women’s Protective Union in Butte, which was the first all-female union in the West.
Woman suffrage repeatedly came before the Montana legislature and failed. And surprisingly, not all women favored suffrage. Those against it, called “Antis,” argued that no woman could possibly find time for politics without neglecting her family. Harriett Sanders, wife of pioneer attorney and politician Wilbur Fisk Sanders, countered the opposition, saying that suffrage made women better mothers. Better mothers kept better homes, and their children were better educated. Better homes and educated children in turn improved the nation. In 1913, Governor Samuel Stewart took up the cause of woman suffrage, and the amendment finally passed with only two dissenting votes in each house of the legislature. In 1914, women won the right to vote in Montana, six years before it became the national standard. In 1916, Montana women went to the polls for the first time.
When miners discovered gold at Grasshopper Creek in 1862, women in the United States could not vote, could not work in most professions, and could not attend most colleges. The road to woman suffrage was very long. Between 1869 and 1871, seven western legislatures considered giving women the vote. Montana was not one of them. Men dominated Montana Territory seven to one. There were a few small steps. In 1887, an amendment to Montana’s territorial constitution gave women the right to vote in school elections and the right to hold elected positions as school trustees and county superintendents. Equality stopped there. The authors of Montana’s first state constitution—all men—considered granting women the right to vote in 1889. But the idea met defeat forty-three to twenty-five. Montana women, however, organized in the 1890s, founding the Montana Woman Suffrage Association and the Women’s Protective Union in Butte, which was the first all-female union in the West.
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| It's possible that the woman standing in the car is Jeannette Rankin. Postcard courtesy of Debbie Little Wilson. http://dlcowgirl.wordpress.com/ |
Friday, November 2, 2012
Friday Photo: Hunting Season
I hope you all enjoyed October's haunted history series as much as I did. For this week's photo, let's switch gears to another seasonal topic that has Montanans buzzing. And no, not the election.
Except for the vintage car, this 1913 photo looks pretty similar to what you might see on a Montana road today. Some things never change.
Bonus: These hunters might have used Mrs. J.W. Arthur's recipe for broiled venison steaks from the First Presbyterian Church of Lewistown's 1902 cookbook, Daily Bread: Compiled from Tested Recipes of the Ladies of Fergus County. Would you try it?
Steaks are usually cut from the leg or haunch. They are not good unless very hot. Put the dish in which they are to be served over a kettle of boiling water to heat. Put in it a piece of butter size of a walnut, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, add 1 tablespoonful of currant jelly if desired. Grease the griddle with suet, lay steaks on it, broil over a hot fire, turning almost constantly, put them in the heated dish and turn them in the butter once or twice; serve on heated plates. The quantities given are for two steaks.
P.S. Remember this recipe for duck?
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| Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 948-563 |
Bonus: These hunters might have used Mrs. J.W. Arthur's recipe for broiled venison steaks from the First Presbyterian Church of Lewistown's 1902 cookbook, Daily Bread: Compiled from Tested Recipes of the Ladies of Fergus County. Would you try it?
Steaks are usually cut from the leg or haunch. They are not good unless very hot. Put the dish in which they are to be served over a kettle of boiling water to heat. Put in it a piece of butter size of a walnut, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, add 1 tablespoonful of currant jelly if desired. Grease the griddle with suet, lay steaks on it, broil over a hot fire, turning almost constantly, put them in the heated dish and turn them in the butter once or twice; serve on heated plates. The quantities given are for two steaks.
P.S. Remember this recipe for duck?
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