Borderland State Park
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Borderland State Park is an American history and nature preserve with public recreational features located in the towns of Easton and Sharon, Massachusetts, United States. The state park encompasses 1
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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.
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…In 1906, Oakes Ames, a Harvard botanist (son of Massachusetts governor Oliver Ames and grandson of U.S. Representative Oakes Ames), and his wife Blanche Ames Ames (daughter of Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames, but not related to Oakes Ames), an artist and feminist, purchased land on the border of Sharon and…
Blanche Ames, ca. 1895
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