Answer: Women's suffrage.

Suffragist Katherine Ruchenberger of Chester County, Pennsylvania, developed the idea to reproduce the famous Liberty Bell believing that it would help draw more attention to the cause of women’s suffrage.  Throughout the summer of 1915, the “Women’s Liberty Bell” or “Justice Bell” was taken to each county in Pennsylvania. At each stop and along the way, suffragists gave speeches, sold souvenirs, and participated in parades.  The tour began in Sayre, Bradford County, and ended in West Chester, Chester County.  The bell currently resides at the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge National Park.

HSP is home to a large collection of records from the League of Women Voters (#2095), which date mostly from the 1960s and 1970s and consist of minutes, newsletters, reports, and memorabilia, with little correspondence.  Other collections related to women’s suffrage include the Caroline Katzenstein papers (Am .8996), the Dora Kelly Lewis papers (#2137), the Jane Campbell collection, and minutes from the Women’s Suffrage Society of Philadelphia (Am .3154).