[Broadside,
Williamsburg High School Virginia Woman’s Suffrage Palace Green c1920]
School Bond Election Tuesday, October
19th To the Voters of Williamsburg, (Virginia)
The new
School Building on Palace Green will cost when completed …
This is
the first election in which the women of Williamsburg will have the suffrage.
It is hoped that each of them and every man who is entitled to vote will go to
the polls on Tuesday and cast a vote for the bond issue.
W. L.
Jones, Chairman
Frank
Armistead, City School Board
H. E.
Bennett, Superintendent
Approved
by City Council
Ferguson
Print (circa 1920)
Broadside. 9-3/4 x
6-3/8 inches. Fold marks, 2-3/4 inch tear up from the bottom center, age toned.
Historical
Note:
“Mass Meeting,
8:00 p.m., June 12, 1928, Williamsburg
High School on Palace Green. Seventy-year-old retired army Major Samuel D.
Freeman, chairman of the town’s school board since 1924, arrived early. The
city council had called the meeting to discuss a “proposal to convey the
properties of the city to Dr. Wm. A. R. Goodwin and his associates”
Though
the Restoration demolished the high school, built in 1921 for about $90,000, it
made possible the $400,000 Whaley School that Rawls Byrd called “the finest
school building Williamsburg had ever had.”” - The
Man Who Said No. by Rosanne Thaiss Butler. "Colonial Williamsburg" Journal.
Autumn 2011.
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