Myra O'Connor [Photograph]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.O.1981.47
Description
A black and white portrait taken in the first or second decade of the 20th century by an unknown photographer. The subject is Myra O'Connor. In 1917, along with many other Old Town women, Ms. O'Connor signed a petition for the voters in a Sept. 10 special election to vote in favor of women's suffrage. In the photograph she is wearing a gingham dress with V-cut lace panel and high neck, over which she wears a small metal cross on a chain and a glass flower brooch at her throat. Her hair is pinned up.