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Kitsap County Suffragist

Elizabeth Baker

born: 1838
died: 9999
county: Kitsap
Already in her 70's, Elizabeth Baker worked as a suffrage organizer in Kitsap county during the final 1909 campaign to secure an amendment in support of women's suffrage. She carried out the suffrage plan of securing a poll list canvass of the voters of Kitsap County, providing complete lists of the voters in the Charleston, Port Washington, Hillman and Manette precincts as the state campaign prepared for passage of the amendment in November, 1910. She was a tireless lecturer and writer. She authored a suffrage column in The Navy Yard American and was an associate editor of the state suffrage paper Votes For Women.

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Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.