On January 26, 1918, a group of twenty-one Sharon residents signed a petition delivered to the office of Connecticut Senator George P. McLean, urging him to “use your influence and cast your vote in favor of the Federal Amendment Bill.”

Visit this pop-up exhibition of archival materials from the Sharon Historical Society & Museum collection and view stories about Elizabeth Darling, Beatrice Fay, Katherine Hotaling, Frances Jewett, and Nina Juckett. The exhibit documents the business roles, community roles, and suffrage efforts of women who lived in Sharon.

Digital production and public access to A Closer Look at the Petition and the Women Who Signed It has been made possible through Connecticut Humanities by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the federal CARES Act.