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| Date: | 09 06 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Formal oval-framed group portrait of Vida James, Ada James and Beulah James. Ada James (center back) later became active in the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage ... |
| Read about this Wisconsonite, whose leadership in the Women's Suffrage Movement helped Wisconsin become the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. |
| How Years of Failure led to Success |
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| Discover the history of suffrage in Wisconsin, and how the state became the first to ratify the 19th amendment after many difficulties. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the best known leaders of the women's suffrage movement who had strong ties to the North Country and who o... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony (standing), with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, five years after completion of their three-volume work entitled "History of Woman Suf... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke seated, surrounded by flowers and plants. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Victoria Woodhull. The drawing was done during her marriage to John Biddulph Martin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of an informal full-length portrait. (Mrs. Ben) Jessie Jack Hooper relaxes in a chair. The portrait may have been taken at the Sawyer House in... |
| Date: | 03 1884 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Susan B. Anthony wearing a black dress. She is standing and leaning on the back of a chair. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Kate N. Doggett (1828-1884), American reformer. Took charge of the Academy of Science herbarium in 1869. She was a de... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as w... |
| Suffragist and Lecturer |
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| Biography of Jessie Annette Jack Hooper, prominent suffragist in Wisconsin civic reform groups and women's organizations. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders engraving of Cordelia Harvey. |
| Suffragist and Minister |
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| Biography of suffragist and Universalist minister Olympia Brown, the first female minister in America. |
| Date: | 02 17 1872 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon depicting a woman on a rocky path carrying two children and a drunken husband on her back being tempted by Victoria Woodhull depicted as ... |
| Date: | 1819 |
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| Description: | A commemorative handkerchief created by a wood engraving on white cotton fabric. The scene is the Manchester Reform Meeting, in England. A crowd of demonst... |
| Date: | 06 1875 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin Class of 1876 on the lawn in front of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall). Prominent members of the class included Richard B. Dudgeon... |
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