Dataset
1920 Women's Voter Register
The Women's Voter Register Dataset is created from Election Department registers used to register women voters in 1920 after the passage of the 19th Amendment. The dataset contains information about newly registered women voters including name, address, place of birth, occupation, place of work,…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Archives and Record Management
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 2
- Keywords
- 1920, register, registration, vote, voter, voting, women
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/1920-women-s-voter-register
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 4658 | 1564317679b8d2b34247764df0a4128ad53e842770e2fd52b08f98488c86c23c | source |
| XLSX | referenced | 10656554 | e3be1f359cc701b239176dc5a0cae58517227a8e92a6d78669395b53cdaff3d9 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Fields | text | |
Description | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:1920-women-s-voter-register
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/1920-women-s-voter-register
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/1920-women-s-voter-register.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- 1920-women-s-voter-register
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |