Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth-century Massachusetts

Dierkes, Mary

Mary Dierkes was supported by the Democratic party in her bid for a seat on the Boston School Committee in 1902. She was the second Democratic woman elected to the Committee and well supported by the German-American community in the city.

Duff, Julia Harrington

Julia Harrington Duff was one of the first women of Irish heritage to be elected to the Boston, Massachusetts School Committee. She was first elected in 1901 and championed the cause of the growing immigrant population in the city by fig...

Dora M. Riser's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Schools, 1892

Julia Harrington Duff's Campaign for School Board Member, 1900

Kate S. Lacey's Campaign for School Board Visitor, 1900

Kate S. Lacey's Campaign for School Board Visitor, 1902

Kate Ames's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1904

Mary Dierkes's Campaign for School Board Member, 1902