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Mary Olney Brown

born: 9999
died: 9999
county: Thurston
Mary Olney Brown caused a scene in 1869 when officials refused her entrance to her local polling place as she attempted to vote with her husband. "I was looked upon as a fanatic and the idea of woman voting was regarded as an absurdity," she complained.

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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.