Voter registration card of Ada Ryan Canning, Hartford, October 16, 1920

• Other Authors: City of Hartford (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1920
• Subjects: Housewives; Voting; Women > Suffrage; Canadian Americans; Canning; Ada Ryan; Farmington; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:14035; https://digitalcollections.ctstatelibrary.org/islandora/object/50002%3A14035/datastream/TN/view/Voter%20registration%20card%20of%20Ada%20Ryan%20Canning,%20Hartford,%20October%2016,%201920.jpg

Voter registration card of Ada Ryan Canning of 260 Laurel Street, Hartford, October 16, 1920. No birthdate or age is entered. Her birthplace is entered as Newfoundland and her occupation as a housewife. “Mrs. E.W.” is written in the birthdate space, probably indicating her husband's name. “Husband born in Lowell, Mass.” is written in the naturalization date space. The street number of the original 260 Laurel Street address is crossed out and "246" entered and also crossed out, as is the street name; “3 Fern St.” is written below and also crossed out; “436 Farmington Ave.” is written to the right. Other notations: at upper left: “Restored Nov/32”; at upper right: “9n” (crossed out) and “131”. Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library One of a subset of voter registration cards in the Hartford Voter Registration Records Collection, representing women who registered to vote in 1920, between August and November in the City of Hartford. Connecticut women acquired the right to vote for school officials in 1893 and on library issues in 1909. They were granted full suffrage in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, which Connecticut was the 37th state to ratify. There are approximately 180,000 voter registration cards in the Hartford Voter Registration Records Collection, which contains checklists of voters and voter registration cards from the City of Hartford for the 1840-2009 time period. Hartford Voter Registration Records Collection, 1920 Women