Women's Rights Special History Study

1. Bloomer, Life and Writings, pp. 11-2.

2. Amelia Bloomer Autograph Book, Amelia Bloomer Papers, Seneca Falls Historical Society

3. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 13.

4. Ibid., p. 15.

5. Ibid.

6. Typescript copy of a letter from Amelia Bloomer to Isaac Fuller, dated March 1, 1862, Amelia Bloomer Papers, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

7. Bloomer, Life and Writings, pp. 17-8.

8. Ibid., p. 50.

9. Caroline E. Lester, "Mrs. Bloomer and Mrs. Stanton in Seneca Falls," Seneca Falls Historical Society Papers, Centennial Volume, 1948, p. 130.

10. Edgar L. Welch, "Grip's" Historical Souvenir of Seneca Falls, New York (Syracuse, 1904), p. 31.

11. Assessment Rolls - 1851, Seneca Falls Historical Society, Archival Collection, #29.

12. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 17.

13. Welch, "Grip's", p. 61-2.

14. The Water Bucket, July 15, 1842.

15. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 43.

16. Bloomer, Life and Writing, p. 21.

17. The Water Bucket, February 25, 1842.

18. Bloomer, Life and Writings, pp. 22-3.

19. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 44.

20. Bloomer, Life and Witings, pp. 39-40.

21. Seneca Falls Revielle, July 30, 1880.

22. Free Soil Union, August 8, 1848.

23. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 41.

24. Ibid., pp. 41-2.

25. Ibid., p. 42.

26. Warren N. Paul, "The Lily - An Interpretation," unpublished typescript at the Seneca Falls Historical Society, pp. 8-9.

27. Bull, "Woman's Rights," pp. 53-4.

28. Seneca Falls Revielle, July 30, 1880.

29. Ibid.

30. Bloomer, Life and Writings, pp. 34-5.

31. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 48.

32. Stanton, Eighty Years, p. 200.

33. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 46.

34. The Lily, November 1, 1849.

35. Stanton and Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pp. 38-9.

36. Ibid., p. 23.

37. Bull, Woman's Rights, pp. 53-4.

38. Seneca Falls Revielle, July 30, 1880.

39. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 26.

40. Stanton and Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, p. 39.

41. Seneca Falls Revielle, July 30, 1880.

42. James, et al., Notable American Women, Vol. I, p. 181.

43. Mary Curtis, "Amelia Bloomer's Curious Costume," American History Illustrated, (June 1978), p. 15.

44. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 52.

45. Marie Irvine Hoover, "Mrs. Amelia Bloomer and My Early Recollections," unpublished typescript in the Amelia Bloomer Papers at the Seneca Falls Historical Society.

46. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 16.

47. Stanton, Eighty Years, p. 201.

48. Ibid.

49. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 67.

50. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 52.

51. Ibid., p. 54

52. Maria Temechko, "Bloomer's Lily" (1972) unpublished typescript in the Amelia Bloomer Papers at the Seneca Falls Historical Society, p. 12.

53. Bloomer, Life and Writings, pp. 67-8.

54. Ibid., p. 69.

55. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 56.

56. Seneca Falls Revielle, July 30, 1880.

57. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Amelia Opie, September 30, 1851, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.

58. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 85.

59. Ibid., pp. 97-8.

60. Ibid., p. 54.

61. James, et al., Notable American Women, p. 180.

62. Bloomer, Life and Writings, p. 145.

63. Ibid., pp. 146-8.

64. James, et al., Notable American Women, p. 180.

65. Ibid. Paul, "The Lily," p. 1. Temechko, "Bloomer's Lily," p. 17.

66. James, et al., Notable American Women, p. 181.

67. Bloomer, Life and Writings, pp. 72-3.

68. James, et al., Notable American Women, pp. 179, 181.