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Photograph, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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National Women’s History Museum
Alexandria, VA, United States
Photographic print on carte de visite mount. Albumen print. Commercial photograph of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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- Title: Photograph, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Creator: Unknown
- Location: United States
- Story: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights movement, formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that has guided the struggle to the present. She called the first Woman’s Rights convention, with Lucretia Mott, at Seneca Falls, New York (1848), and wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments,” calling for changes in law and society - educational, legal, political, social and economic - to elevate women’s status, and demanding the right to vote. Her intellectual and organizational partnership with Susan B. Anthony dominated the woman’s movement for over half a century. In 1895 she wrote The Woman’s Bible, questioning Biblical teachings on the inferiority of women that she felt were the greatest obstacles to women’s progress.
- Provenance: Gift of Jeanne and Robert Schramm
- Type: Albumen print
- Dimensions: 3 1/2x 2 1/8 in.
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