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Susan B. Anthony at Age 36

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A photographic portrait of Susan B. Anthony around age 36, from her years as an anti-slavery and temperance organizer.

Shows Anthony during her years as an anti-slavery and temperance organizer.

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Sepia-toned daguerreotype-style portrait of a woman seated with her hands resting in her lap. She wears a dark dress with a white collar and a small brooch, and her dark hair is pulled back. The background is dark with a vignetted oval border.
Unattributed photographer, Susan B. Anthony, age 36.

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What it is

This oval-framed portrait shows a seated woman in a dark dress with a white collar and brooch, her hair pulled back. The photographer is unknown.

Why it matters

Taken during the period when Anthony worked as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society and organized for temperance, this image captures her during the start of her public reform work, before women's suffrage became her central cause.

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Petition for Universal Suffrage, circa 1865

Susan B. Anthony and others · circa 1865

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The Revolution

Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1868

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1881-1922

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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