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Vintage photos of women’s history in N.J.

Margaret Laird (left) and Jennie Van Ness became the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly in 1921. Laird, of Newark, and Van Ness, of East Orange, were leaders in the women’s suffrage movement in New Jersey.