A women's suffrage petition over one hundred and forty years old from Sacramento, California

Top view: Public petition relative to women's suffrage that reads, "To the Constitutional Convention in Sacramento, California, assembled. The undersigned citizens of California, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to so amend the Constitution that no citizen of the State should be disenfranchized on the account of sex." From the California Constitutional Working papers, 1878, (F3956: 46). Bottom View: View of the back of the petition undergoing treatment on a workstation in the Preservation Lab. The document measures seven and a half feet.