Janet Lindenmuth
@janetlindenmuth.bsky.social
Law librarian at Delaware Law School. Delaware history, legal and otherwise. Also researching women in the suffrage movement. Ruza Wenclawski bio https://medium.com/@JanetLindenmuth/ruza-wenclawska-suffragist-labor-organizer-poet-and-actor-58e312de4046
Ruza Wenclawska was a member of the Women’s Trade Union League and was one of their organizers for the 1913 New York garment workers strike.
This Day in Labor History: November 14, 1903. Leading unionists and female reformers met in Boston to create the Women’s Trade Union League. This was an effort to support unions for women workers and to fight the plague of sweatshops that defined the lives of so many women in the years!!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ruza Wenclawska was a member of the Women’s Trade Union League and was one of their organizers for the 1913 New York garment workers strike.
Reposted by Janet Lindenmuth
The suffragists who picketed the White House in 1917 demanding the passage of the 19th Amendment endured arrest & imprisonment for the cause. Many of them, estranged from their own families because of their commitment to the fight for democracy, relied on each other for support...
#GOTV #Vote
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Make dazzle painting great again!
September 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Make dazzle painting great again!
This weekend I found out I'm allergic to sodium citrate. So I am now banned from donating platelets. It's fun to suddenly get itchy and puffed up at the blood donation place.
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This weekend I found out I'm allergic to sodium citrate. So I am now banned from donating platelets. It's fun to suddenly get itchy and puffed up at the blood donation place.
One of our new students came into the library wearing a Blondie t-shirt. At first I couldn't remember ever seeing them but then I remembered I saw Blondie, Elvis Costello, Flock of Seagulls, and for some reason Genesis at JFK stadium in 1982. That was a long time ago.
August 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
One of our new students came into the library wearing a Blondie t-shirt. At first I couldn't remember ever seeing them but then I remembered I saw Blondie, Elvis Costello, Flock of Seagulls, and for some reason Genesis at JFK stadium in 1982. That was a long time ago.
They're filming something at the library today. They have one of those wearable cameras but they don't seem open to my suggestion that we recreate the Broadway Sunset Boulevard walk through the library.
August 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
They're filming something at the library today. They have one of those wearable cameras but they don't seem open to my suggestion that we recreate the Broadway Sunset Boulevard walk through the library.
I can never go to Rehoboth again.
July 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I can never go to Rehoboth again.
Reposted by Janet Lindenmuth
This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. Mining capitalists and their bought and sold police in Bisbee, Arizona and politicians rounded up anyone they thought might be an IWW member (or if they looked Mexican) and deported them in one of the worst civil rights violations in American history!!!!!
July 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. Mining capitalists and their bought and sold police in Bisbee, Arizona and politicians rounded up anyone they thought might be an IWW member (or if they looked Mexican) and deported them in one of the worst civil rights violations in American history!!!!!
Someone came in with another fake cite from ChatGPT!
July 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Someone came in with another fake cite from ChatGPT!
Delaware Shakespeare is looking for volunteers for their summer festival! delshakes.org/support-dsf/...
Volunteer - Delaware Shakespeare
Volunteers are the lifeblood of Delaware Shakespeare. Individuals who generously donate their time and talents are the best friends of the theatre. We have opportunities to help out before and during ...
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July 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Delaware Shakespeare is looking for volunteers for their summer festival! delshakes.org/support-dsf/...
I spent all day trying to get something to work. Now it's finally working but it doesn't do what I though it was going to do. I have a headache.
June 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I spent all day trying to get something to work. Now it's finally working but it doesn't do what I though it was going to do. I have a headache.
It finally happened, someone had a cite to a book about AI they wanted, and it turned out it didn't exist, some AI hallucinated it.
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It finally happened, someone had a cite to a book about AI they wanted, and it turned out it didn't exist, some AI hallucinated it.
There are hundreds of paintings sold online attributed to the artist Caroline Burnet. But she probably never painted any of them. Who was Caroline Currie Burnet? medium.com/@JanetLinden...
June 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There are hundreds of paintings sold online attributed to the artist Caroline Burnet. But she probably never painted any of them. Who was Caroline Currie Burnet? medium.com/@JanetLinden...
I totally forgot about this, the most obscure Delaware legal research rabbit hole I ever went down. And I never found the thesis. Do you have a copy of Wolcott, James L., The Development of the Delaware Corporation Law, unpublished thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1931?
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I totally forgot about this, the most obscure Delaware legal research rabbit hole I ever went down. And I never found the thesis. Do you have a copy of Wolcott, James L., The Development of the Delaware Corporation Law, unpublished thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1931?
I used to spend a lot more time slightly lost. I kind of miss it.
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
June 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I used to spend a lot more time slightly lost. I kind of miss it.
Spent an exciting morning at the DMV.
May 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Spent an exciting morning at the DMV.
I spent a wonderful 2 days researching at the Library of Congress earlier this year. Carla Hayden and all the staff there do a great job. It is unjust to fire her for political reasons.
NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
![The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreicwqv4vszkknu4dvsdfhmrzzmtscjx5eg64gykfmrgynrnhup6sai@jpeg)
May 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I spent a wonderful 2 days researching at the Library of Congress earlier this year. Carla Hayden and all the staff there do a great job. It is unjust to fire her for political reasons.
The car wash has a new automated drive through payment thing that is obviously designed for SUVs and trucks. I had to get out of the car to reach the receipt.
May 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The car wash has a new automated drive through payment thing that is obviously designed for SUVs and trucks. I had to get out of the car to reach the receipt.
I wrote this article on Ruza Wenclawska for the Library of Congress Manuscript Division’s blog! blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/...
Finding Forgotten Suffragists: Researching Ruza Wenclawska at the Library of Congress | Unfolding History
Guest author Janet Lindenmuth, Reference Librarian at Delaware Law School, uncovers the story of labor and suffrage activist Ruza Wenclawska in Manuscript Division collections.
blogs.loc.gov
April 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I wrote this article on Ruza Wenclawska for the Library of Congress Manuscript Division’s blog! blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/...
There is now a Ruza Wenclawska bust! thestatuecompany.com/products/ruz...
Ruza Wenclawska Bust
Ruza Wenclawska Bust – A Powerful Tribute to Labor, Voice, and Victory Historical Significance: Ruza Wenclawska, Suffragist and Labor Rights ChampionRuza Wenclawska, also known as Rose Winslow, was a ...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There is now a Ruza Wenclawska bust! thestatuecompany.com/products/ruz...
I wasn't feeling well yesterday and didn't post, so you get 2 immigrant suffragists today to make up for it.
Adelina Piunti DiSabatino was born in Italy and came to the US in 1914. She was a teenage worker in a munitions factory in New Castle, DE when she joined a group of her coworkers to protest for suffrage at one of the NWP's watchfire protest in Washington DC. She was arrested on January 13, 1919.
April 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I wasn't feeling well yesterday and didn't post, so you get 2 immigrant suffragists today to make up for it.
With the current administration arresting and deporting immigrant students for their activism and speech I'll point out that many immigrant women were active in protest during the suffrage movement.
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
With the current administration arresting and deporting immigrant students for their activism and speech I'll point out that many immigrant women were active in protest during the suffrage movement.
This description of Lydia Gibson's missing portrait of Ruza Wenclawska makes me want to find it even more. "The hardest looking egg in the show, packing a knockout wallop in both fists." It's from a 3/12/1922 Brooklyn Eagle article on the Society of Independent Artists show where it was exhibited.
March 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This description of Lydia Gibson's missing portrait of Ruza Wenclawska makes me want to find it even more. "The hardest looking egg in the show, packing a knockout wallop in both fists." It's from a 3/12/1922 Brooklyn Eagle article on the Society of Independent Artists show where it was exhibited.
Reposted by Janet Lindenmuth
"New York City, May 5, 1912. More than 10,000 people marched for women’s suffrage, and one of its lead marchers was a 16-year-old Chinese immigrant on horseback. Her name was Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896-1966)"
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442: Mabel Ping-Hua Lee rode on horseback for women’s suffrage
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee's (1896-1966) writings on democracy and feminism advocated for equal educational opportunities for Chinese women.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"New York City, May 5, 1912. More than 10,000 people marched for women’s suffrage, and one of its lead marchers was a 16-year-old Chinese immigrant on horseback. Her name was Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896-1966)"
joysauce.com/442-mabel-pi...
joysauce.com/442-mabel-pi...
This is a great article. Rose Winslow/Ruza Wenclawska often used the same "bread and roses" rhetoric.
March 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is a great article. Rose Winslow/Ruza Wenclawska often used the same "bread and roses" rhetoric.