Gov. Frazier signing woman suffrage bills, 1917


Title: Gov. Frazier signing woman suffrage bills [graphic].
Imprint: Bismarck, N.D. : Butler Studio, 1-23-17.
Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 15 x 24 cm.
Part of: North Dakota Masonic Grand Lodge Photograph Collection (Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo)
Description: North Dakota governor Lynn Frazier is seated at a table surrounded by many women and several men as he signs the women's suffrage bill passed by the North Dakota Legislature. On the surrounding walls are framed portraits of men.
Notes: Title handwritten on front of image.
  "Partial identification made by Mrs. O. A. Stevens & Mrs. R. E. (Mary Darrow) Weible, 1/22/64. Beginning at viewer's left: Unknown, Rev. W.J. Hutcheson, Aldyth Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Darrow-O'Neill, Mrs. V. J. LaRose, Mary Darrow Weible, unknown man, Mrs. Grace Clendenning, Mr. Stair (Legislature), Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, Mrs. Barbara Wiley; 3 women directly back of governor unknown, Honorable Lynn G. Fraser [sic], Governor of N. Dak., Mrs. Charles S. Shippey (Hope, N. Dak.), Mrs. Lynn J. Fraser [sic], one Fraser twin; 4 women around Fraser [sic] twin unknown; Dr. Fanny Dunn Quain, Mrs. Anna Wanner (Jamestown), the second Fraser [sic] twin (Uni and Versity), unknown"--Typed list with print.
References: "Governor Frazier is seated at the table signing the bill. To his right standing next to the table are Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, president of the state W.C.T.U., Mrs. Grace Clendenning of Fargo, president of the state Votes for Women League, Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible, of Fargo, vice-president of the state Votes for Women League and Mrs. Elizabeth Darrow O'Neil, of Fargo, president of the state Congressional Union. Standing to the left of Governor Frazier next to the table are Mrs. Lynn Frazier, wife of the governor, Miss Bonita Townley and Mrs. A. C. Townley, wife and daughter of the president of the Nonpartisan League, and Mrs. J. E. Stevens, field agent of the Anti-Tuberculosis society"--Nonpartisan Leader, Feb. 1, 1917, p. 8.
Harmon, Ralph L. "How the suffrage bill passed; rollcall in North Dakota House and Senate given, ceremonies over signing of the measure." Nonpartisan Leader, 4, no. 5 (Feb. 1, 1917), p. 8.
Time Period: 1910-1919.
Location: Bismarck (N.D.)
Subjects: Women's suffrage-North Dakota
Document signings-North Dakota
  Interiors
  Frazier, Lynn J., 1874-1947
  Anderson, Elizabeth Preston, 1861-1954
Record No.: VM93-005132
Call No.: Mss 1942.2.3
Negative No.: 120mm-0043.3 copy neg.
Negative No.: PN-103
Videodisc No.: RS-1-10090
Credit Line: Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (Mss1942.2.3)
 
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