1 10 3 https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/973af5c1e8b26941a7b631b910dcf024.jpg 81ae2f662aa73a050e597a462a2f8b8a https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/f8b8fb1a83221c9f2372b751584a6feb.jpg 2a47b52364100a04119350aef411a009 https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/aea26285a56b32c7c6ca37d29a4dbad0.jpg 5112c1e649a72e57590176461768d753 https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/1a654c6e42c23d799451cf828831ce2f.jpg d1308219dc5d4a25b04a3c619b23bb8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Organizations and Institutions Organizations and Institutions A group of individuals cooperating under similar beliefs to reach an agreed-upon goal. Metadata for organizations and institutions provides information for the basis of an investigation into the creation, purpose, beliefs, and actors involved in an organization and institution. Date Started 1914-03-27 Type of Institution Political Source of File Attached “<a href="https://njwomenshistory.org/learn/topics/suffragist-mina-c-van-winkle/">Women’s Political Union of New Jersey</a>.” New Jersey Women’s History, 8 Mar. 2023. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women's Political Union of New Jersey, Englewood Branch Subject The topic of the resource Activism, Women’s Rights Suffrage, Women’s Politics, State Politics, Englewood Description An account of the resource The Women's Political Union of New Jersey (WPU) was founded by Mina Van Winkle in 1909. The group tended to be on the more militant side. It was primarily based in Essex. The Englewood Branch was organized as a separate branch of the Northern Valley Women's Political Union on March 27, 1914. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Englewood and Leonia Separate." The Record, 31 Mar. 1914, p. 1 “<a href="https://womensuffrage.libraries.rutgers.edu/exhibits/show/womenssuffrage/early20th">On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in Middlesex County.</a>” Rutgers University Libraries. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ludder, Rachelle Suffrage Women's Rights https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/45dc86d1969ae9d7530fa399499733d6.jpg 7203944db58a09271112d71ebce3061f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Places Places A fixed location. Metadata for a place provides descriptive information that is the basis of discovery of the creation, purpose, and agents associated with a place. Type of Place Theaters Date Started 1914 Date Ended 1967? Source of File Attached "Washington Savings Bank opens in Englewood after legal flurry." The Record, 8 Jan 1973, p. A-18. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Englewood Theater Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Washington Savings Bank opens in Englewood after legal flurry." The Record, 8 Jan 1973, p.A-18. "Englewood Man is Theatre Owners' Officer." The Record, December 23, 1926, p.15. Schlieben, Dan. "Old Movie House Heads Into Sunset." The Record, 17 Oct. 1969, p. C-1. "Plaza Theater Has Met With Sucess." The Record, 19 Jan. 1927, p. 17. Description An account of the resource The Englewood Theater was open in 1914 until the late 1960s. It was created by Franklyn Edmund Backer and E. Thorton Kelly was the owner of the theater in the 1920s. It became a meeting ground for many political and community meetings. Subject The topic of the resource Theater Movies Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Colman, David Ludder, Rachelle Entertainment Recreation https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/498a3e1bfd3f339edfd65f9f5c517b58.jpg 81ab7e16d63799625fff9b998a033fe1 https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/0629358a78b7f6634cbb3b7ea91609a8.jpg a3d687b4f7ccaa272a45e9dd2d5a7702 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People People An individual. Metadata for a person provides detailed biographical information to describe the life of a historical figure. Birth Date 1847-02-14 Birthplace Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England Death Date 1919-07-02 Occupation Activist, Women’s Rights Activist, Women’s Suffrage Spiritual Leader Source of File Attached <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Howard_Shaw">“Anna Howard Shaw.”</a> Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Apr. 2024. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Howard_Shaw">“Anna Howard Shaw.”</a> Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Apr. 2024. <a href="http://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/anna-howard-shaw/">“Anna Howard Shaw.”</a> Women of the Hall. Anna Howard Shaw was one of the most prominent leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement, a trained physician, and an ordained minister whose life bridged faith, reform, and national politics. Her career combined intellectual authority, moral argument, and organizational leadership at a moment when women’s political participation was still widely contested. Shaw’s path to the ministry was marked by resistance. Despite persistent opposition to women preaching, she received a local Methodist preacher’s license in 1873. In 1880, she was denied ordination by the Methodist Episcopal Church but was later ordained by the Methodist Protestant Church, allowing her to continue a public religious career that reinforced her suffrage advocacy. Alongside her ministry, Shaw earned a medical degree, further strengthening her standing as a reformer who challenged assumptions about women’s public authority. By the late nineteenth century, Shaw became deeply involved in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), where she emerged as a nationally recognized speaker and organizer. Encouraged by Susan B. Anthony, she joined the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and played a central role in unifying the divided suffrage movement through the creation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Shaw later served as NAWSA’s president until her resignation in 1915. In December 1914, Shaw delivered a major public address in Englewood, New Jersey, speaking at the Englewood Theater on Palisade Avenue. Addressing a large local audience, she framed women’s suffrage as both inevitable and urgent in New Jersey, linking women’s exclusion from political power to their lack of voice in government. Speaking during the first year of World War I, Shaw emphasized the contradiction of a political system that depended on women’s labor and sacrifice—whether as nurses, agricultural workers, or industrial laborers—while denying them the right to vote. Her appearance at the Englewood Theater underscored the city’s role as an active site of statewide and national suffrage organizing. During World War I, Shaw rejected militant suffrage tactics, favoring persuasion, institutional reform, and patriotic service. She served as head of the Women’s Committee of the United States Council of National Defense, coordinating women’s wartime work across the country. For her leadership, she became the first woman awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Shaw shared a thirty-year partnership with Lucy Elmina Anthony, a women’s rights activist and the niece of Susan B. Anthony. Lucy served as secretary to both Shaw and her aunt, placing Shaw within the innermost circle of national suffrage leadership and highlighting the personal relationships that sustained the movement. Ware, Susan. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vote-carrie-mollie-anna-lucy/">“Carrie & Mollie & Anna & Lucy.”</a> PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 23 Oct. 2020. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ludder, Rachelle Subject The topic of the resource Activism, Women’s Rights Activism, Women’s Suffrage Religion, Christianity Suffrage, Women’s LGBTQ+ Community Religion Social Work Suffrage Women's Rights