TEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

History Preserved in the Archives’ Prints and Photographs CollectionTSLAC’s prints and photograph collection combines visual materials donated by private individuals andimages transferred from state agencies. This unique approach enables us to know what Jessie Ames Daniels woreand how many women gathered at a pro-suffrage event. In one example, a photograph of thirty-four recentlyregistered Travis County women illustrates the organizing power of suffragettes. 27“Travis County Women Register to Vote” (1918), William Deming Hornaday collection, Prints and Photographs,1975/070-5449, TSLAC Arch. & Info. Servs. Div. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/sites/default/files/public/tslac/exec/documents/struggles6_1975%20070%205449%20Women%20Voters.pdf.Texas women only had seventeen days to register to vote in the July 1918 primaries, which was the firstopportunity for females to vote in Texas. This photograph shows not only that women took their new responsibilitiesseriously, but that female voters varied in age and wealth.The prints and photographs collection also shows that women were still surrounded by men in the political27“Travis County Women Register to Vote,” 1918, William Deming Hornaday Collection, Prints and Photographs, 1975/070-5449.69