More mysteries found inside suffrage safe
About a dozen envelopes — yet to be opened — and a commemorative gavel honoring Susan B. Anthony, along with two boxes of items including reproductions of photos taken of murals celebrating women’s rights, were among items found inside a safe opened Tuesday.
But the safe, which had “Woman Suffrage Party” inscribed on it, had an envelope inside dated as recently as 1999, and while more historical items could be in the envelopes, the oldest date on one was 1931 — 25 years after Susan B. Anthony died.
The safe — about the size of a large file cabinet — has been sitting in the New York City office of the National Council of Women of the United States, an organization that Anthony helped establish 125 years ago.
No one knew how long the safe had been there — nor, for that matter, when it was last opened.
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At least some of the larger envelopes appear to concern the history of the Council of Women.
“We found a lot of stuff, but it will have to be reviewed by the historians,” said Mary Singletary, president of the group.
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