Women Voting, Wyoming Territory, 1888

Scene of women voting at the polls in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1888. Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote and hold public office in 1869, the first place in the US to do so. In 1890, Wyoming became the first U.S. state to allow its female citizens to vote. Wood engraving, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, November 24, 1888

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