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A fictional account of the legal injustices suffered by wives and mothers in the United States written by Catharine Waugh McCulloch.

This pamphlet, edited by Catharine McCulloch of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, is a timeline of various important events in the Illinois women's rights movement.

McCulloch loosely based this play on the life and experiences of Myra Bradwell, another Evanstonian woman. The play's introduction describes the incident that Mrs. Bradwell faced which portrayed the problems that married women faced regarding their…

In January 1909, women could vote in Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. McCulloch uses this pamphlet to show that in these states where woman can vote, there are a number of other positive laws in place, such as equal pay for equal work, and a…

A map depicting the location of the Frances E. Willard house, or the Rest Cottage, within Evanston, Illinois.

A map of Evanston noting the location of Rest Cottage, one of the safe work spaces of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union . Note: it is the same location as the Frances E. Willard house.

A map depicting the location of the Catharine Waugh McCulloch home in Evanston, Illinois.

A map depicting the location of the Elizabeth Boynton Harbert house within Evanston, Illinois.

Dwight Perkins, architect, husband of children's book writer Lucy Fitch Perkins, and father of author and book reviewer Eleanor Ellis Perkins, wrote this letter to Mr. and Mrs. McCulloch for their 50th wedding anniversary. In it, he says: "You have…

A sampling of covers from The New Era, a newspaper published by Elizabeth Boynton Harbert to elucidate the cause of women's suffrage.