You Will Wish to Hear the Famous Canadian Woman Suffrage Leader Mrs. Flora McD. Dennison...at the Final Suffrage Mass Meeting in the Common Council Chamber City Hall... [caption title]

Watervliet, NY: Century Printing Co, 1917. Very good.. Broadside, 8.5 x 6 inches. Evenly toned, a couple of shallow edge chips. A rare surviving flyer advertising a series of speeches at "The Final Mass Meeting" of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party before voting takes place for "Woman Suffrage Amendment No. 1" in 1917. The speakers include Mrs. Flora McDonald Dennison, billed as "The Famous Canadian Woman Suffrage Leader," Frank Durham ("Formerly of Colorado"), and "The Liberty Loan Speaker Rev. Dr. J. Ellenwood." The meeting was presided over by E.J. Foley, mayor of the New York town of Watervliet, located near Troy and Albany. Flora Dennison was the leader of the Canadian Woman Suffrage Association; she spent two years on a lecture tour for the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, as evidenced here. The speakers encourage people to vote for the woman's suffrage amendment, which did indeed pass on the November 6, 1917 ballot in New York. The vote was close, with supporters outnumbering detractors 703,129 to 600,776. Passage of New York Women's Suffrage Amendment 1 predated ratification of the 19th Amendment by almost three years. OCLC records just five physical copies, with another held in the noted suffrage collection of Ann Lewis.