Suffragist group photo. Standing, back row: Bessie Starr Keefer (Canada); Rachel Foster (America); Sophia Magelsson Groth (Norway); Margaret Dilke (England); May Wright Sewall (America); Alice Scatcherd (England); Margaret Moore (Ireland). Seated, front row: Laura Ormiston Chant (England); Susan B. Anthony (America); Isabelle Bogelot (France); Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America); Matilda Joslyn Gage (America); Alexandra Gripenberg (Finland). In 1888, Susan B. Anthony and other leading feminists founded the International Council of Women. The council sought to “impress the important lesson that the position of women anywhere affects their position everywhere.” Many of the women pictured in this delivered addresses during the council’s three-week-long inaugural gathering.
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1 print : albumen ; 34.3 x 52 cm (13 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
International Council of Women Women--Congresses Women--United States--Congresses Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-1919 Chant, Laura Ormiston, 1848-1923 Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898 Gripenberg, Alexandra, 1857-1913 Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 Group portraits. (gmgpc)
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