An Hour At the Polls

Brackett, Harriet

Harriet Brackett was a Socialist candidate for the Boston School Committee in 1904. The year before Brackett was a delegate to the county and state Socialist conventions.

Cabot, Ella L.

Ella L. Cabot was a Republican candidate for the Boston School Committee in 1904. She was also endorsed by the Public School Association. In 1910 Cabot wrote a book for parents and teacher titled Ethics for Children. She continued to be ...

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

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...

Irene Burns' Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1918

Konikow, Dr. Antoinette F.

Dr. Antoinette F. Konikow was a physician in Boston, Massachusetts and a Socialist party candidate for the Boston School Committee in 1901, 1902, 1904, and again in 1905. She was a socialist activist from the 1890s onward. Konikow was al...

Merrifield, Samantha H.

Samantha Merrifield was a  Democratic Socialist or Socialist candidate for the Boston School Committee in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904,and 1905.

Grace C. Stanley's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1914

Minerva Ferguson's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1914

Irene Burns' Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1914