The Hinsdale & Cuba Historical Societies are honored to welcome Carol Crossed, President and Founder of the Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum, for a commemoration of women’s suffrage, particularly poignant in this election year. Crossed will deliver a distinctive presentation of 100-year-old suffrage postcards from a personal collection presented in her 2019 publication, “Vintage Tweets.”
Crossed distinguishes the most widely circulated postcards featuring themes such as suffrage, abolition, and temperance, along with an in-depth exploration of the artists associated with this significant era.
Vintage Tweets is a poignant, amusing and insightful collection of 100 year old suffrage postcards, the social media of the late 19th and early 20th century. Author Carol Crossed’s entertaining narrative explores the meaning behind the illustrations which represent both domestic and political views of the woman’s vote.
In 2006, Carol Crossed purchased and restored the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts. The home is now a historic house museum honoring the work of this early suffragist.