Leather change purse with the words “votes for women” on the front. [Photograph]
The $20 dollar bank note signed by Kate Gleason was kept in this purse. Kate Gleason gave the first $20 bank note to Anna Howard Shaw who kept it in this leather purse. When Anna Shaw died, the bank note and purse were returned to Kate Gleason’s sister, whose companion gave it to Rev. Charles J. Lavery, C.S.B., and who in turn gave it to St. John Fisher College.
The original photograph taken by a photographer for the Gleason Works.
St. John Fisher College, Lavery Library Collection