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Susan B. Anthony and Family

Parsons, photographer · c. 1896

A group photograph from around 1896 showing Susan B. Anthony with people believed to be her relatives, gathered outside a family home.

A rare family photograph showing Anthony with relatives rather than in her public role as an activist.

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Sepia group photograph of about two dozen people posed on and in front of a wooden porch of a clapboard house. Standing figures fill the porch and back row; seated figures sit on the steps and grass in front, and a boy sits at lower left.
Susan B. Anthony and family, photograph by Parsons, c. 1896.

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What it is

This sepia photograph, taken around 1896 by a photographer named Parsons, shows about two dozen people posed on and around the porch of a wooden house. A pencil note on the back of the mount identifies one person as Anthony's younger brother, Daniel Reed Anthony, and notes that the family descended from an English settler who arrived in 1634.

Why it matters

This photograph offers a rare glimpse of Anthony outside her public role as a reformer, surrounded by family. The reliance on a handwritten identification shows how historians must sometimes use informal, secondary clues to confirm who appears in a historic photograph.

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