By 1855, when this engraving was made, 35-year-old former teacher Susan B. Anthony was a well-known leader in the temperance, abolition, and women’s rights movements. Traveling alone in this year, she stumped New York State in behalf of women’s suffrage, aiming to move the legislature in Albany to action.
Source photograph: G.E. Perine & Co., New York. Engraving in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (1881).
Date: 1855
By 1855, when this engraving was made, 35-year-old former teacher Susan B. Anthony was a well-known leader in the temperance, abolition, and women’s rights movements. Traveling alone in this year, she stumped New York State in behalf of women’s suffrage, aiming to move the legislature in Albany to action.
Source photograph: G.E. Perine & Co., New York. Engraving in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (1881).
Date: 1855