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Taken on the front porch of the family homestead in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony, the "Dowager Empress" of the early woman's rights movement, is seated at the center. Around her:
Laura Clay, daughter of famed anti-slavery activist Cassius…

The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (died 1846), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1880 by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Oil on canvas, 1841. 117 in. x 151 in. (2972 mm x 3836 mm). See…

Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where…

"The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention" held at Akron, Ohio 1851