This Week at the MHS - 23 September

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“Sorosis,” 1869

Charles G. Bush engraved this image satirizing Sorosis, an organization of professional women led by Jane Cummingham Croly, as part of an ongoing campaign against women’s suffrage. The engraving portrays the women as old, frowning, and bespectacled. The only activities they are engaging in are speaking, listening, or reading.

Jane Cummingham Croly (1829–1901) was sympathetic to the women’s suffrage movement but was not engaged in it. She focused her activism on women’s employment and financial independence.

View the engraving up close. Read more about the campaign against suffrage in Massachusetts.

“Four assumptions underlie the arguments urged for woman suffrage. First, that the women who ask for the ballot speak for their sex; second, that the improvement in the position of women under the laws and in education and industry is coincident with the suffrage movement and attributable to it; third, that the suffrage movement is a movement of progress; fourth, that to give the ballot to women would improve their condition and enlarge their influence. All of these assumptions we deny.”

—The Remonstrance , published annually by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, January 1908

CALENDAR

Upcoming Events

VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Wednesday, 25 September

6:00 PM–7:00 PM

Women & Children First

CONFERENCE

Friday, 27 September

9:00 AM–6:30 PM

Racial Histories of Higher Education

MEMBER EVENT

Tuesday, 1 October

6:00 PM–7:30 PM

The Haunting of the MHS

Member Event Sponsored by the MHS Young Patrons

Tuesday, 8 October, 5:00 PM: The Myth of Corruption: Postwar Psychiatry, the Homophile Movement & the Meanings of Seduction with Lauren Gutterman, University of Texas at Austin, with comment by Stephen Vider, Bryn Mawr College. This is a seminar.

Wednesday, 9 October, 6:00 PM: Making the Presidency: John Adams & the Precedents That Forged the Republic with Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library, in conversation with Louisa Thomas, author and staff writer for the New Yorker. This is a program.

Monday, 14 October, 10:00 AM–2:00 PM: Opening Our Doors with MHS staff. This is a special event.

Tuesday, 15 October, 5:00 PM: Shovels & Shoes: Cement Sidewalks’ Influence on New Cultures of Civics & Fashion in the Urbanizing United States, 1890–1930 with Kirke D. A. Elsass, Montana State University-Bozeman, with comment by Sara Jensen Carr, Northeastern University. This is a seminar.

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Boston Views: Through the Lens of Arthur A. Shurcliff

Arthur A. Shurcliff (1870–1957), a landscape architect, created a collection of 1,295 glass lantern slides that depict cityscapes and buildings in Boston and other locations during the first decades of the 20th century. View a selection of Boston scenes reproduced at large scale and learn more about Shurcliff.

Learn more about the collection of glass lantern slides by reading this blog post. Visit our hours and admissions page for gallery hours.

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