Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony in 1851, beginning a partnership that would last their lifetimes. When Stanton died at age 86 in 1902, Anthony eulogized her as “the philosopher and statesman of our movement.” Anthony died three years later; neither of them lived to see the success of their cause, which would wait until the final year of the Wilson administration in 1920. This photograph, c. 1870, is a rare instance of Anthony facing the camera—she usually turned her head to hide her wandering right eye, a condition called exotropia.
Source photograph: Napoleon Sarony, (1821–96). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Date: c. 1870
Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony in 1851, beginning a partnership that would last their lifetimes. When Stanton died at age 86 in 1902, Anthony eulogized her as “the philosopher and statesman of our movement.” Anthony died three years later; neither of them lived to see the success of their cause, which would wait until the final year of the Wilson administration in 1920. This photograph, c. 1870, is a rare instance of Anthony facing the camera—she usually turned her head to hide her wandering right eye, a condition called exotropia.
Source photograph: Napoleon Sarony, (1821–96). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Date: c. 1870