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Chocolate dipping required significant training, and most 1920 Boston advertisements for chocolate dippers sought experienced dippers. In 1914, the Census Bureau reported that 60% of workers in United States candy factories were women. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory

Research for a 1913 congressional report notes that an average chocolate dipper worked with seventy-five to eighty pounds of chocolate a day.

Josephine A. Ryan (Randell) registered to vote on October 9, 1920, with her sister and housemate Helen K. Ryan. She later moved to Worcester with her husband.

Minnie Maltz (Rosenfield) registered to vote on August 19th, 1920, in anticipation of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. She was a 1909 graduate of the Franklin School.

Recorded as born in Milan, Italy, Carolina M. (Colombo) Piotti was a founder of the Women’s Italian Club of Boston. She resided in Dorchester from 1895 until her death in 1957. #ItalianAmericanHeritageMonth #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory #19thAmendment #WomensHistory

Lillian registered to vote on October 13th, 1920, with her mother and twin sister. She graduated from Dorchester High School in 1917.

In 1920, her sister Harriet A. (Piotti) Bizzozero worked as a secretary at 708 Dudley Street. Both sisters graduated from Dorchester’s @matherelementary in 1912.

According to her 1962 Boston Globe obituary, she was an active member of the East Boston community and was credited as a founder of the East Boston Chapter of Hadassah. As the wife of an immigrant, she would have been required to show her husband’s 1906 naturalization papers to register to vote.

Born in Poland, she was a 1918 graduate of Tufts Dental College (now Tufts University School of Dental Medicine) who served with the Comité Franco-American pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontière during World War I.

While we might expect that a female minister would primarily speak to women's groups, the Cambridge Chronicle reported that she was speaking not only to mixed gender of men and women, but specifically to groups of young men.

 Eva returned to the US and moved to Boston where she
began conducting a mission in the city's First Methodist Episcopal Church in about 1918. By 1920, the year she registered to vote, she was speaking at
evangelistic meetings in the Greater Boston area.

The Harvard Crimson referred to her as “the  most popular woman speaker to troops while in Paris. Eva's story took an intriguing turn when she was arrested by Scotland Yard on suspicion of espionage!

After her ordination, Ludgate founded the Women’s
International Prayer Battalion. During World War I, she traveled to France, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, and England. She preached and
ministered to both military members and civilians.

  Ludgate embarked on her journey to ministry at a
young age, recounting that as a child she heard her father, also a Congregational minister, state that "when he was an old man, he hoped to see his daughters in the pulpit proclaiming the gospel."

It may not be a coincidence that Lili registered to vote on a Saturday evening! Could it be that the Saturday Evening Girls registered to vote in lieu of their usual gathering?

The Saturday Evening Girls had close ties to the Paul Revere Pottery where club members learned how to fashion and decorate ceramics of various types. Lili was one of many women who connected the club and the pottery, even overseeing the pottery for its last five years of operation in 1942.

In 1916, Barbara Einstein performed at the opening of a Union Park Forum meeting discussing the vital work of infant welfare nurses. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German immigrant parents, she and her husband were boarders on Commonwealth Ave. in 1920 and later moved to Longwood Ave.

Barbara Einstein registered to vote on Oct. 11, 1920. She repeatedly performed in concerts held at Pilgrim Church in Dorchester, including a performance of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah." Image from Historic New England.

Jessie Nute Bennett registered to vote on August 19, 1920. In addition to multiple appearances as a contralto at churches and other events around Boston, her 1923 obituary lists her as a member of the Professional Women’s Club.