Women Voting in Wyoming Territory

"Frank Leslie's Weekly," upon which this lithograph of women voting in Wyoming Territory appears, was started up by an Englishman, Henry Carter, who changed his name to Frank Leslie and emigrated to America in 1848. He married Miriam Florence Follin in 1874, who was a genius at business and twice saved the periodical from folding. In 1880, upon the death of her husband, Follin changed her name also to Frank Leslie and took control of the publication. Follin was an ardent feminist who left her fortune at her death to Carrie Chapman Catt to use in support of the cause. Because of her sympathies, "Frank Leslie's Weekly" generally portrayed the issue of women's rights far more sympathetically than did its rivals.