Women's Suffrage. Two West Coast Newspaper Reports of East Coast Political Activity, 1871 & 1872.
Including:
1) San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 1871, featuring an article entitled, The Champions of Woman Suffrage: The Female Agitators, headed by woodcut portraits of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, followed by interviews written by a Chronicle reporter while the two activists were visiting San Francisco's Grand Hotel, spreading the word; Stanton states that she and Anthony "had been able to stir up a healthy discontent," in the Utah Territory on their way West; some neat marginal paper repairs, some loss of text, not affecting the article described, 24 1/8 x 18 in.
2) Reese River Reveille, Austin, Nevada, November 6, 1872, large bifolium newspaper mostly containing amusing anecdotes, ads for local services like saloons, dentists, gold assayers, and livestock stablers, with note of a local shooting, and reports on the recent Presidential election wherein U.S. Grant beat Horace Greeley, including the following: "Early this morning [November 5, 1872], Susan B. Anthony and eight other women went in a body to the polls and presented their ballots which the Inspectors received and deposited in the ballot box. Eighteen women registered in the same district."
