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The suffrage question was first raised in Colorado in 1868 when it was suggested that the idea be tested in the territories before being adopted nationally. Nothing more was done until the 1890s when a new state suffrage organization concentrated on…

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Montezuma's aviary. Detail from the map of Tenochtitlán printed with Hernán Cortés's second letter from the New World, published in 1524.

Rheta Dorr was a journalist and feminist from Nebraska. In 1914 she became the first editor of The Suffragist, official organ of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, forerunner of the National Woman's Party. Dorr dedicated the biography to her…

Detailed survey map of South America, including Rio de la Plata, where Charles Darwin made his discoveries of fossils.

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836... (London,…

Lane-snapper and tobaccopipe fish. Mark Catesby, Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. 3rd edition (London, 1771)

Snake from the zoological atlas Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens (Weimar, 1822-31)

Another example of rodents. Herman Burmeister, Erläuterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens (Berlin, 1856)

Rodents. Hermann Burmeister, Erläuterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens (Berlin, 1856)

"Prince Max" (Alexander Philipp Maximilian) travels up the Rio Doce in Brazil. Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817 (Frankfurt, 1820-21)