Blanche Ames Ames
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Blanche Ames Ames was an American artist, political activist, inventor, writer, and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control.
Blanche Ames, ca. 1895
The Oakes Ames estate is now Borderland State Park
Blanche Ames, "Double the Power of the Home -- Two Good Votes are Better Than One," 1915, Link to image and information: https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/128
"Women Suffrage Flowers" poster by Blanche Ames about 1910
Adelbert Ames Jr.
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Adelbert Ames Jr. was an American scientist who made contributions to physics, physiology, ophthalmology, psychology, and philosophy. He pioneered the study of physiological optics at Dartmouth Colleg
Blanche Ames Ames
…Blanche Butler Ames, who attended the Academy of the Visitation and enjoyed painting and the arts. The fourth of six children, she was the sister of Adelbert Ames Jr., a prominent scientist. She was also granddaughter to Civil War General and Massachusetts Governor Benjamin Butler and actress Sarah Hildreth Butler…
Adelbert Ames b 1880