Speak about a year ago. At the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. And i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. Its clear from your response that you all do too. Give a warm welcome to robin muncy. Thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. For that introduction and the invitation to come back. That didnt go too badly. And thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this possible. People who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. Okay. Let me make sure i got this. Good. So the 19th amendment of course the womans suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Finally made it through congress in june of 1919. And it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. After that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. Tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. Before we drill down on t
Speak about a year ago. At the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. And i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. Its clear from your response that you all do too. Give a warm welcome to robin muncy. Thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. For that introduction and the invitation to come back. That didnt go too badly. And thank you to everybody at the Smithsonian Associates who made this possible. People who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. Okay. Let me make sure i got this. Good. So the 19th amendment of course the womans suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Finally made it through congress in june of 1919. And it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. After that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. Tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. Before we drill down on t
East of here, that burned in 1960. It was built a lot larger than it was needed because they decided to house the Division Headquarters at this location at that time. An Industrial Area because of the railroad. There were a number of peripheral businesses that supported the railroad. Close to 2000 people were employed here. In sanere two yards bernardino. The ayard and the byard. The lower part shows the switching tracks and the upper part shows the shop facilities. Those were the largest facilities west of topeka. They could rebuild any steam engine or diesel locomotive, repair cars, anything that they needed to maintain the railroad. Some of the items down here, an , somenta fe lincoln pin of the tools and the measurement devices that they used in the machine shops, two boiling plates off of locomotives. In the next case, the products that were produced at the shop here. Back then, there were no airlines. The only way to travel transcontinental was the railroad. There were 26 passeng
You are watching american all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Allen bone we are inside the Santa Fe Depot in San Bernardino. We represent the Railroad History and the local history of San Bernardino valley. Construction was complete in 1918. This replaced a wooden structure that was approximately a hundred yards east of here that burned in 1916. Why it was built a lot larger than it was needed was it was because they decided to house the Division Headquarters at this location at that time. So they made this an Industrial Area because of the railroad. There were a number of businesses that supported the railroad, and it had close to 2000 people employed here. The map here is the a yard. There were two places, a and b. This shows the depot and the switching tracks. The upper part of the map shows the office facilities, and the larger parts of the facilities west of topeka. They can rebuild any scene engine or diesel locomotive, repair cars, freight cars, passenger cars, anything they n
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