There’s a puzzling inconsistency in the 1840 census that shows a dramatic decline in the Scarsdale population. Was there a mass exodus, or is there another explanation? Our Vice President and Scarsdale Village Historian, Jordan Copeland reveals the truth behind the mystery. Watch below.
Recorded from a presentation co-sponsored by Scarsdale Public Library, on March 5, 2025.
How much do you know about your great-grandmother? What if you found out she was a courageous suffragist, as evidenced by countless newspaper articles and priceless notes she left behind in Scarsdale, N.Y.? This is what happened to several families across the country when they heard from me during research for our documentary Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists.
This is the second part of a blog series sharing the stories behind my investigations of the suffragists.
As with all of our Scarsdale suffragists, we found countless news clippings about Josephine Winslow and her tireless volunteer work - but otherwise we could only imagine what she looked like. I kicked off a deep dive, and the research process was a historian’s dream. Once I figured out the names of her living relatives, one of them happened to be a professor with a published email address. Within 3 hours of emailing Robert W. Newsom at University of California, Irvine, I received an album of jaw-dropping photos.
Josephine Valentine Winslow, c. 1890s.
Josephine, aka Mrs. Willard Winslow was the daughter of a New York City merchant and woolen manufacturer. She moved to Scarsdale in 1903 with Willard, a lumber importer and wholesaler. In 1905, they had their daughter Julia Valentine Winslow (Newsom). Robert and his brother Jon are her sons.
Left to right: Julia, Josephine and Willard Winslow - likely in their Scarsdale home on School Lane. Based on Julia’s age, this photo may be from around the late 1910s.
In comparison to her dear friend Florence who thrived in the spotlight, Josephine was the business backbone of many of Scarsdale’s early enterprises. For example, most of the actual handwritten notes in the Scarsdale Equal Suffrage Club minutes book are in Josephine’s meticulous script (see below). She was also a charter member of the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, one of first female commissioners of the Westchester County Park Commission, the purchasing agent of supplies for Westchester County Government during WWI, office manager of the Scarsdale Community Farm during WWI, a trustee of the Scarsdale School District (1919-1922) and the Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Girl Scouts of Westchester County.
First page of the Scarsdale Equal Suffrage Club minutes book, handwritten by Josephine (Secretary), 1914. Source: Scarsdale Public Library.
After reading about her tireless civic work in early Scarsdale, it was a thrill to see Josphine’s face for the first time. The younger photos pre-date her time in Scarsdale, but they are a stunning visual record of her life.
Date unknown. Source: The Newsom Family
Date unknown. Source: The Newsom Family
c. 1900. According to the Scarsdale Inquirer, the Winslows had a pet spaniel named Judy who got lost (and returned) in 1905. Maybe that’s Judy? Source: The Newsom Family
Note the photographer listed at the bottom: The Moreno Co. This address is now a CVS in Union Square, NYC. Date unknown. Source: The Newsom Family
This portrait was used heavily in promotion for the Women Rising documentary. Date unknown. Source: The Newsom Family.
A snapshot of vacation life, c. 1880s. Loon Lake Resort was a luxury hotel in the Adirondacks that attracted American Presidents, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. Josephine is the girl leaning against the column looking at the boy in the striped hat, front left. Source: The Newsom Family.
Date unknown. Source: The Newsom Family.
Date 1910, likely taken in Scarsdale. Source: The Newsom Family
A photo of the Winslow house. Source: The Winslow Family.
It’s always fun to receive an old picture of a Scarsdale house and figure out if it still stands. Robert had shared this photo of a house (above), and he wasn’t sure where it had been located. Their address in the Scarsdale Inquirer was always listed as “16 School Lane,” but that doesn’t exist now. Thus, I had to do a little extra investigating.
If you look at a current day map, in the spot where 16 School Lane would be, there’s a tiny little street called “Winslow Place.” It isn’t a coincidence, as confirmed by the 1952 article on the street names of Scarsdale (below).
“Winslow Place The Planning Commission named this tiny street, originally considered part of School Lane, in 1932 for the neighboring owner, Willard Winslow, whose wife Josephine V. served on the school board from 1919 to 1922.”
There’s several houses on Winslow Place, so I wasn’t sure which house it would be. I checked the 1911 map, which makes it very clear which house it was (it was almost the only one on School Lane!!). That house is today’s 3 Winslow Place, and it still looks almost the same minus some updates.
The Winslows were near the Lockwood Collegiate School, which is the home of today’s Hoff-Barthelson Music School (thus, the name of School Lane). The school property of 9 acres was purchased in 1906. I compared dates in the newspaper, and the Winslows built their house in 1904, 2 years before the Lockwood School campus. Thus, when they purchased their house, “School Lane” wouldn’t have been named yet.
1910-1911 Map of School Lane, when Winslow Place was the driveway to the Winslow’s house. the open land below it became today’s Crane-Berkeley neighborhood. Source: Atlas of Westchester County, Westchester County Archives
From today’s satellite map of this block, you can see 100+ years of suburban development. Source: Google Maps
Today, there are three total houses on Winslow Place (two across from the Winslows). The map shows that Winslow Place was originally the Winslow household’s driveway! If you’ve ever driven down tiny Winslow Place with its one lane, this makes perfect sense.
There was one other photo in the album that shows what this once looked like (see below). The house faced sideways (on School Lane), and to the house’s left was all fields (before it became the Crane-Berkeley neighborhood).
Today’s 3 Winslow Place in the early 1900s. Source: The Winslow Family
Winslow Place today, looking from School Lane - 100+ years later! Source: Google Maps
Willard, Josephine, Julia, and her doll, sitting on the portico, c. 1910. Source: The Newsom Family
Sadly, Josephine passed away suddenly of pneumonia at 55. Florence Bethell was quoted in the newspaper as saying, “Much of all the glory that is ours in Scarsdale is due to her quiet, modest, self-effacing work.” Thirty-one crabapple trees at the Scarsdale Woman’s Club were planted in memory of her untimely death. We hear that some are still thriving on the club grounds by Drake Road, and will watch for them to blossom this spring.
Trees in front of the Scarsdale Woman’s Club.
Our new documentary “Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists” can be viewed here. For other details and resources related to the Scarsdale’s suffrage leaders, click here.
The Full Interview Conducted by Film Director Lesley Topping for Our Film, Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists
In 2024, for our film Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists, we had the privilege of interviewing Linda Leavitt, an accomplished journalist who served as Associate Editor and later Editor-in-Chief of the Scarsdale Inquirer from 1984 to 2015. Beyond contributing to our project, we also sought to document Linda’s remarkable career and legacy.
The following two videos highlight Linda’s reflections on her journey in journalism, her most memorable stories, the evolving roles of women in Scarsdale, and the history of the Scarsdale Inquirer.
The Scarsdale Inquirer was Scarsdale’s first local newspaper. It originated in the late 1800s, as a neighborhood newsletter in Scarsdale’s Arthur Manor and later evolved into a newspaper under the ownership of the Bronxville Review. When the paper faced financial difficulties in 1919, a group of Scarsdale suffragists, who had recently formed the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, bought the paper. Over the years, the Scarsdale Inquirer was transformed into award-winning and beloved local newspaper. Although the Woman’s Club sold the paper in 1959, it continued to be staffed mostly by women. After Linda Leavitt’s retirement in 2015, Valerie Abrahams succeeded her as Editor-in-Chief, and led a team of talented dedicated journalists until the paper ceased publication in 2024.
Linda Leavitt joined The Scarsdale Inquirer in 1984 as associate editor covering Scarsdale schools, arts and entertainment and religion. When editor David Kirkwood retired in 1991, she was appointed editor, serving until her retirement in July 2015.
During her tenure as editor the paper won many awards from the New York Press Association, including overall best newspaper, general excellence and awards for editorials, news and feature stories. Along with her predecessor Kirkwood, Leavitt received the New York State Bar Association Media Award in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the Scarsdale crèche case.
The Inquirer was honored by the Scarsdale community several times over the years: in 1997 by the Scarsdale Historical Society and in 2001 with the Town and Village Civic Club Public Service Award. In 2006, Leavitt was named a distinguished alumna of Scarsdale High School and also received the Scarsdale Teen Center Visions of Community Award. In October 2015 the Scarsdale Forum presented her with its public service award.
Since retiring, she has joined the boards of the Scarsdale Adult School and the Scarsdale Woman’s Club. She takes painting classes with the adult school and writes a monthly column and occasional theater reviews for the Inquirer.
Leavitt moved to River Road with her family in 1954. She attended Greenacres Elementary School and was in the first class to go all the way through the Scarsdale Junior High School. She attended Connecticut College and received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is a lifelong member of Hitchcock Presbyterian Church. She lives in Stamford, Connecticut with her husband Liam Murphy. She has two daughters and four grandchildren.
For a further exploration of the Scarsdale Inquirer’s history, see The Story of Our Century: 1901–2001: Celebrating 100 years of Scarsdale News. This book is available at the Scarsdale Public Library.
The Scarsdale Inquirer has been digitized from 1901 - 1977, all available online. This was part of a joint project with the Scardale Public Library.
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How much do you know about your great-grandmother? What if you found out she was a courageous suffragist, as evidenced by countless newspaper articles and priceless notes she left behind in Scarsdale, N.Y.? This is what happened to several families across the country when they heard from me.
Our project on the suffragists began because filmmaker Lesley Topping wanted to make a film about the Scarsdale women who fought for women’s suffrage rights. She knew there were many records of their activities in the Scarsdale Inquirer archives. There were countless mentions of meetings, rallies, and suffrage dances in the 1910s. What she didn’t expect was the lack of photographs and personal stories about the women in the Village archives. In some cases, because of the tradition of using husbands’ names, she didn’t even know the women’s first names. The women were virtually “faceless” in the Village record.
Lesley and I agreed that her documentary project would require some creative research strategies. I offered to help with research and started digging. I felt determined to find the faces (and stories) behind the names. I tracked down long-lost ancestors all over the country - from Mississippi, to California, to Martha’s Vineyard. Before I knew it, suffragist relatives were picking their brains and cracking open their dusty photo albums - just so we could preserve the memories of their matriarchs.
This week I’m kicking off a four-part blog series sharing the stories behind my investigations of the suffragists. I assure you, when I’m done, you’ll remember the names of Florence, Josephine, Bella and Edna.
In the summer of 2024, Lesley mentioned that Florence Bethell (1873-1956) would be the “star” suffragist in her film, yet she hadn’t found enough decent images of her. Florence founded the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale (and Westchester), was a founder of the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, and saved the Scarsdale Inquirer in 1919. However, the Village archives only had photographs of her husband, Frank H. Bethell. This seemed like an injustice.
Portrait of Frank H. Bethell in the Scarsdale Public Library archives, dated c. 1917.
The first photo we came across was a grainy passport photo on Ancestry.com (thank you to Dan Glauber at Scarsdale Library!). It was helpful, but not ideal or adequate to use for an entire documentary. How was it possible we couldn’t find any other photos of this trailblazing woman?
Photo found on Florence’s “emergency” passport application, 1922.
We had pieced together general biographical information about our illusive subject. Florence Hartstuff was born in Sidney Barracks, NE, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Albert Hartsuff. Her father was a Brigadier General and served in the American Civil War and Spanish-American War.
Florence married Frank Hopkins Bethell in 1901 and they came to Scarsdale around 1912. The couple had a son and a daughter, Franklin and Janet who were both born in 1903 (I’ll return to that below). The Scarsdale school district was in its infancy, so it makes sense that the Bethell children went to elite private high schools: Hackley School in Tarrytown and Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, CT.
Husband Frank Hopkins Bethell served in leadership (First Vice President) at the New York Telephone Company with his brother, Union Noble Bethell (President). He was also responsible for the “Eastern Group” of Bell Telephone Company. He and his brother were both pioneers in the United States telephone system, at the forefront of Bell and what became AT&T. To give you an idea of Union N. Bethell’s prominence, he was sitting beside Alexander Graham Bell when he made AT&T’s first transcontinental call to California (pictured).
Third from left: Union Noble Bethell,, Senior Vice-President American Telephone & Telegraph Co. with Alexander Graham Bell (center) on the day of the first transatlantic phone call (January 25, 1915). Source
I even found a letter written in 1914 by Thomas Edison to Union Bethell that stated “I’m fond of a hustler and like to give them credit when I find real ones” (Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University). Needless to say, if the Bethell brothers were rubbing elbows with two of the most famous American inventors in history, then Florence was a woman in a position of power. With her status, she was well-positioned to advocate for women’s suffrage.
Her husband Frank retired in 1920 and continued as a pillar of the Scarsdale community. He served as Scarsdale’s first president (before mayors), and a president of the Scarsdale Golf Club. He was one of the longest standing commissioners of the Bronx River Parkway Commission, the group that oversaw the land acquisition and construction of the Bronx River Parkway.
Frank H. Bethell at the podium during Scarsdale’s first public celebration after being incorporated as a Village, on July 4, 1915. Source: Scarsdale Public Library
House numbers weren’t typically published in the early Scarsdale days, but I believe the Bethells’ first residence in Scarsdale was at 16 Heathcote Road. A photo of the house was published in The Telephone Review, in an article about Frank titled: “A Prophet in His Own Country.”
The only known photo taken of the Bethell’s home in 1915. Source: The Telephone Review, 1915.
It was at this home that Florence hosted suffrage meetings and conferences, where she could fit 125 people in her “sunny garage.” Guests included many prominent suffragist leaders, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter, Mrs. T. H. Lawrence.
A suffrage convention with 125 guests in the Bethell garage at 16 Heathcote Road. Source: Mount Vernon Argus, January 07, 1916
By 1920, they had moved to a new property with around 8 acres. Finding the actual location of the Richbell Road house was a bit of a challenge. House records prior to 1925 are scarce at Village Hall. The newspaper often said they lived at 5 Richbell Road, but that address doesn’t exist now. Thankfully, the 1930 map unlocks the mystery. First, it shows the original boundaries of the estate that became Bethel Road (yes, it is misspelled). Second, it shows the location of the main house on Richbell Road. Today, that same plot is 2 Bethel Road (thanks to property records at Village Hall!).
A 1930 map shows the Bethell name twice: once with their house, and once across the top where the Bethell land had been subdivided. Bethel Road appears via dotted lines. Source: Westchester County Archives
2 Bethel Road in the current day.
The Scarsdale Woman’s Club has two artworks of Florence, including the lovely portrait that hangs in the “Bethell Room.” For our suffrage documentary, we hoped we could find images of her that were more age-appropriate as she would have appeared in the 1910’s (when she was in her 40’s).
The portrait that hangs in the Bethell Room at the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, painted by Harold Wolcott. He was a prominent Scarsdale artist.
President Portrait of Florence Bethell, Scarsdale Woman’s Club. Photograph by Ferris Briggs, 1933. The artist used a special process to give the photograph an artistic effect.
I started scouring newspaper archives outside of our hometown newspaper. I came across a large article on the Scarsdale Woman’s Club in the New York Tribune, one of New York City’s influential newspapers of the time. The headline read “A Woman’s Club Takes Over a Town Paper.” It featured a large photo of Florence, calling her “the prime mover” in saving the Scarsdale Inquirer. The best part about the photograph was that it was “legible” quality, and depicted Florence as a younger woman. It was the best clipping (showing her image) that I could find.
Source: New York Tribune, November 23, 1919.
Next, I tried looking through members’ family trees on Ancestry.com. Sometimes, people upload photos from their personal collections. Finally, in one person’s family tree I saw Florence’s name. I clicked it, and was finally looking at an original photo of Florence for the first time!
Left to right: Janet (Coker) Bethell, Franklin Hartstuff Bethell, Florence Bethell, Frank Harrison Coker. Photo taken around 1921. Source: Pamela Coker
I didn’t know this Ancestry.com account owner’s relation to the Bethell’s, but I was dying to find out. I immediately sent a private message to the owner of that account, and within a few hours I was speaking to the mysterious relative, Pamela, in California!
Lesley Topping and I sat on a conference call eagerly hearing information that never would have been published in the Scarsdale Inquirer. Pamela was related to the Bethell’s through the taller boy in the photograph, Frank Harrison Coker. She graciously shared the following about the 3 children:
Brother and sister (technically first cousins by blood), Frank and Janet Bethell. Both born in 1903. Source: Pamela Coker
Franklin Hartstuff Bethell: Florence gave birth to one son, Frank. He attended Princeton, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University. He became a renowned scholar and doctor, pioneering blood cancer treatments for the University of Michigan.
Janet (Coker) Bethell (left): The Bethells adopted Frank Sr.’s sister’s child. Janet went to Smith College, and raised her own family at 8 Heathcote Road.
Frank Harrison Coker: The older boy on the right was Janet’s brother who was visiting from school at Rutgers at the time.
The next piece of the story is personal and was never shared in the local newspaper, but I will share for the sake of preserving history. Sometime around 1930, the Bethells divorced. Frank stopped being mentioned in the Scarsdale Inquirer around this time. I learned that Frank had moved away, and Florence continued as a prolific volunteer in Scarsdale. He remarried, yet Florence continued as “Mrs. F. H. Bethell,” as was the custom.
After reaching Janet’s side of the family, I still hoped to find someone from Frank Jr.’s side. Once again through Ancestry.com, I found someone who had set up a personal Bethell family tree. It turned out to be Frank Jr.’s great granddaughter, Lauren. Within the day, I was on the phone with her mother, Mary in Georgia.
Sadly, Mary’s mother Elaine Hartstuff Bethell (Frank Jr.’s daughter) passed away in 2024. She wished her mother could shared more details with me! I learned that her part of the family was largely based in Michigan, where Frank Jr. had been a professor at the University of Michigan. Frank Sr. had lived in Michigan with his second wife, whom Mary called “Aunt Ruth” (even though she was actually her step-great grandmother).
With the divorce and geographic distance, it seemed that this side of the family was much closer to (great) grandfather Frank than they were with (great) grandmother Florence. Mary wasn’t sure what Florence actually looked like (doesn’t this sound familiar?). Mary has fond memories of visiting (Great Aunt) Janet her husband (Uncle) Chauncey Newlin at 8 Heathcote Road in the 1950s and 60s.
I hope that the Women Rising documentary brings them great pride in knowing that their ancestor was an trailblazer and champion for women’s rights and many charitable causes.
A Latebreaking Discovery
As I was working on this article (after the documentary and photo exhibit had been completed), I came upon one of my best photo discoveries. I had googled a new search combination, and ended up in the “Carrie Chapman Catt Papers” in the Bryn Mawr College archives.
Catt, a nationally-known American women’s suffrage leader (who lived in New Rochelle), had meticulously recorded the names and faces of the world’s prominent suffragists. In a record called “New York Suffragists,” there was an album page with the photos of 4 women. I thought, could it really be….?
New York Suffragist Photos in the Carries Chapman Catt Papers. Per the website’s description: (a) Mrs. F.H. Bethell of Scarsdale, New York. (b) Mrs. A.L. Livermore, Yonkers, N.Y. (c) Miss Adelaide Goan, Katonah. (d) Mrs. M.W. Wynne, Westchester Co. Source: Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Portrait of Florence Bethell, c. 1910. Source: Source: Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
I zoomed in, and it was HER! Finally, I’d found a glorious, formal, solo photograph of Florence! I gasped so loudly that Florence herself may have heard me “from the other side.”
It gives me great satisfaction to know that these photos and stories can be added to the Village record. The actions and accomplishments of Scardale’s (white) men in history are meticulously recorded, and it’s exciting to shed new light on those who have been marginalized. Stories like Florence’s may be harder to find, but I’m up to the challenge.
Our new documentary “Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists” can be viewed here. A Scarsdale Suffragists exhibit (including all of the newly-discovered photos) is on display through the month of February in the local history center of Scarsdale Public Library. For other details and resources related to the Scarsdale’s suffrage leaders, click here.
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Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists tells the little-known story of the courageous women behind the suffrage movement in Scarsdale and how their work shaped the community. The film is narrated by trustee and Associate Scarsdale Village Historian Historian Leslie Chang and includes interviews with Barbara Davis, Director of the Westchester County Historical Society, Linda Leavitt, former Editor-in-Chief of the Scarsdale Inquirer, Scarsdale Public Library Local History Librarian, Daniel Glauber, and Nancy Horrigan, Archivist for the Scarsdale Woman’s Club. The film is written and directed by Lesley Topping and produced by the Scarsdale Historical Society.
From the Film Premiere on December 16, 2024 at Scarsdale Public Library, left to right: Jordan Copeland (VP and Village Historian), Dan Glauber (Local History Librarian, Scarsdale Library), the Filmmaker Lesley Topping, Leslie Chang (Trustee and Associate Village Historian) and Randy Guggenheimer (President).
Women Rising features trailblazers like Florence Bethell who lectured, wrote, marched and lobbied for womens’ right to vote - at a village, state and national level. In the face of apathetic and sometimes hostile attitudes toward women’s suffrage, the women used creative approaches to educate Scarsdale women on suffrage - from porch parties to suffrage dances.
Their cause was closely tied to service projects that left a lasting legacy on this village. Not only did they publish the Scarsdale Inquirer newspaper, but the women initiated many of Scarsdale’s most important civic and arts programs. Among the organizations the suffragists and committees of the Woman's Club sparked or expanded are the Scarsdale League of Women Voters, the Scarsdale Foundation, the Scarsdale Ambulance Corp, Scarsdale Edgemont Family Counseling Services, and many more.
Want to see more?
On the night of the film premiere screenings, both Q&A sessions were recorded and are available here. A suffrage exhibit is also on display at the Scarsdale Public Library through January, 2025.
To find out more about Suffrage in Westchester see our extensive interview with Barbara Davis, Executive Director of the Westchester County Historical Society, see our interview here.
On display in the local history center of the library, the exhibit presents new artifacts, findings, photographs that were uncovered during the production of the documentary. There’s a display of suffrage artifacts including the original Scarsdale Equal Suffrage Club minutes book from 1914-1918.
The Scarsdale Public Library has scanned and transcribed the entire notebook so that anyone can view it online. The notes speak of fundraising campaigns, local views toward suffrage, and correspondence with renowned suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt. View it here.
The entire collection of our documentary films can be viewed here.
Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists premiered December 16th with two fully reserved screenings at Scarsdale Public Library. The film tells the little-known story of the courageous women behind the suffrage movement in Scarsdale and how their work shaped the community. We also unveiled two new photo exhibits that evening in partnership with the library’s Local History Librarian, Daniel Glauber.
The film was introduced by President Randy Guggenheimer, who shared some insights about making the film. There were countless mentions of Scarsdale’s suffrage meetings, rallies and dances in newspapers, yet there were no photographs of the women in the library’s photo archives. In search of photographs and firsthand stories about these women, relatives were tracked down all over the country. Guggenheimer stated, “With this new film and exhibits, we give these trailblazers proper recognition and individual identities. When you leave the library tonight, you’ll remember the names of Florence, Josephine, Bella and Edna.”
Women Rising features trailblazers like Florence Bethell who lectured, wrote, marched and lobbied for womens’ right to vote - at a village, state and national level. In the face of apathetic and sometimes hostile attitudes toward women’s suffrage, the women used creative approaches to educate Scarsdale women on suffrage - from porch parties to suffrage dances.
The screening was followed by a Q&A panel with film participants.
Front (left to right): Nancy Horrigan, Archivist for the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, Lesley Topping, Filmmaker, Barbara Davis, Director of the Westchester County Historical Society. Back, left to right: Linda Leavitt, former Editor-in-Chief of the Scarsdale Inquirer, Daniel Glauber, Scarsdale Public Library Local History Librarian, Leslie Chang Trustee and Associate Scarsdale Village Historian Historian.
In closing, Guggenheimer emphasized that this suffrage movement was a milestone in a longer fight. “The spirit, bravery and resilience of the Scarsdale Suffragists is an inspiration, but we must remember that their crusade was just one pivotal step in the continued battle for equal women’s rights and suffrage.”
After the screening event, attendees visited the Local History Center to see the new suffrage exhibits. For only that night, there were some museum-quality suffrage artifacts on display, thanks to our trustee and collection-builder, Seth Kaller. The exhibits are on display at the Scarsdale Public Library through January.
The film is now available online! Click here.
The entire collection of our films can be viewed here.
The new Scarsdale Suffrage exhibits are in the library's Local History Center and will be on display through January 2025.
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