Book/Printed Material Proceedings of the first anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association, held at the Church of the Puritans, New York, May 9 and 10, 1867 General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1800 Class JK1881 Book .A6- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 2 of General Collections copy ca 10-3542- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 3 of General Collections copy PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN 76 10 EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, HELD AT THE CHURCH OF THE PURITANS, NEW YORK, MAY 9 and 10, 1867. PHONOGRAPHIC REPORT BY H. M.…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 4 of General Collections copy JK1881 .A6- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 5 of General Collections copy CALL FOR THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION. The first Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association will be held in the City of New York, at the…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 4 Constitution. Still more deplorable is the condition of the black woman; and legally, that of the white woman is no better! Shall the sun of the nineteenth century go down on…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 5 REPORT. The American Equal Rights Association met, upon the occasion of its Second Anniversary, at the Church of the Puritans, in New York, on Thursday, May 9th, 1867, at 10 o'clock…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 6 by both public and private appeals, has been a work that has taxed every energy and dollar at our command. Money being the vital power of all movements—the Wood and water…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 7 establish universal suffrage, equal rights to all, in every State in the Union. The President (Mrs. Mott ) said: The report which we have had, although not written, is most interesting.…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 8 classes, families; and, in direct antagonism to our idea of self-government, takes us back to monarchies despotisms, to a experiment that has been tried over and over again, 6,000 years, and…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 9 idea, and on a wise settlement of this question rests the problem whether our nation shall live or perish. The principle of inequality in government has been thoroughly tried, and every…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 10 on the ballot, she will make it her first duty to educate every American boy and girl into the idea that to vote is the most sacred act of citizenship—a religious…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 11 future prosperity but a lack of virtue in the people. Let us not, like the foolish prodigal, waste our substance in riotous living, and, through ease, luxury and corruption, check the…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 12 still. You see man's idea of women true position in his codes and creeds. His commentaries on Blackstone and the Bible alike place her “sub potestate viri;” under the power of…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 13 day be true, and we are responsible for this state of things, we must confess that women has made a most lamentable failure in governing the world for the last six…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 14 years, should now, with bated breath, give her but a passing word in their public speeches and editorial comments—as if her rights constituted but a side issue in this grave question…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 15 In the southern States even the women were not degraded below their working population, they were not humiliated in seeing their coachmen, gardeners and waiters go to the polls to legislate…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 16 “But,” says a distinguished Unitarian clergyman, in a recent sermon on this subject, “they who first assume political responsibilities must necessarily lose something of the feminine element.” In the education and…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 17 The man, on a lower plane, looks up with admiration and reverence, with a chaste and holy love; and thus the poet tells us, by the law of attraction woman leads…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 18 brothers, and sons. I was delighted with the remarks of Mrs. Stanton on this subject. In the first place, women cannot influence their husbands, nor educate their sons, as they should…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 19 of our country. What will be the consequence, God only knows, should we dare to go on with such a fatal mistake in the basis of our institutions. It is presumption…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 20 right, to illustrate the truth, and at the ballot-box to give their votes for the true and the right. It is my first conviction respecting the future well-being of our country,…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 21 What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 22 We are told sometimes that women ought to share with men in the rights we claim for humanity, because of the difference of sex; that there is a sex of soul…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 23 her right to the place by her admirable administration, and her admirable adaption to the business of teaching, so that she has become, as it were, a fixture in that schoolhouse.…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 24 continued until reason shall be convinced; until prejudice shall be overcome by the power of conviction; until men are constrained, from very shame, to withdraw from a position which no argument,…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 25 it, in her feminine capacity, as peculiarly within her domestic province, and relieve man from the interruption of his appropriate duties? Rev. Mr. May —Will my friend allow me to suggest…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 26 and that he may delegate that right to whomsoever he will assist him in the government of the people. But in a Republic the right must be in the individual; and…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 27 platform, that it takes people forty years to outgrow an old idea. And he proved to us, if his silver words are good for anything, that it took five years to…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 30 of General Collections copy 28 every village, in every cabin and every palace, in every home in the whole United States, they rose up and went to work. They worked for the government; they worked for…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 31 of General Collections copy 29 Syracuse, the reply was made to this argument, that woman was not much to be blamed, because the power of the government and of the church, that was vested in man…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 32 of General Collections copy 30 magistrate; but that the parties themselves, acknowledging the religious obligation of so sacred a union, were sufficient. And in that Society, the parties were at liberty to appoint their own time…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 33 of General Collections copy 31 Stephen S. Foster. —Will you give us the evidence that the statement that the women of this country do not want the ballot is not true? I should be glad to…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 34 of General Collections copy 32 many objections made to such a proposition. To one of those objections, and only one, I will refer; and it seems to me that persons would be careful not to urge…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 33 rest? or has achieved proportionally, so long a life? or expired at last in sunsets of serenity and glory, and been embalmed and enshrined in the tears and gratitude of mankind?…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 34 century almost ruled the world. Charles the Fifth boasted that his empire saw no setting sun. It included Spain and all her vast American provinces, over large part of which to-day…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 35 more debased and depraved than he found her. Was it not well snug of him, at his overthrow, “Since he, miscalled the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 36 its nationality. No nation, then, ever maintained a more precarious existence. Chartism in Scotland, Repeal in Ireland, Trades Strikes everywhere, East India Wars, Irish Famines, Fenianism, Reform Leagues, Reform Riots, Bread…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 37 of men. We had multiplied our slaves to four millions, with new cruelties and horrors added to the system, and at least ten generations of them were lost in unknown graves.…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 38 The United States, young among the nations, the mother earth six thousand years old at their birth, wet-nursed by forty centuries of history, and schooled by all the experience of the…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - American Equal Rights Association - Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
About this Item
Title
- Proceedings of the first anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association, held at the Church of the Puritans, New York, May 9 and 10, 1867
Summary
- This report contains addresses by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Samuel J. May, C.C. Burleigh, Frances D. Gage, Lucretia Mott, Parker Pillsbury, Ernestine Rose, Henry Ward Beecher, Sojourner Truth, and Charles Lenox Redmond. Some speeches discuss the relationship of woman suffrage to black manhood suffrage and the reasons for enfranchising women. It also includes the constitution of the Equal Rights Association and correspondence from various individuals.
Names
- American Equal Rights Association
- Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1825-1908
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, inscriber
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York : Robert J. Johnston, Printer, 1867.
Headings
- - Women's rights--Congresses
- - Women--Suffrage--Societies, etc
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
Notes
- - Inscribed: Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. Jan. 1. 1903.
- - Card lists JK1885 1848a as Copy 2. LAC nsk 2019-09-13
- - LAC nsk 2019-09-03 no edits (3 cards)
- - LAC nsk 2019-09-13 update (1 card)
- - LAC tnb 2022-08-17 update (1 card)
- - LAC knj 2022-08-22 update (1 card)
- - LAC knj 2022-09-03 update (2 cards)
Medium
- 80 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- JK1881 .A6
- JK1881 .N357 sec. VII, no. 1, #4 Bookplate: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
- JK1885 1848a Copy 2 Copy 3, no. 11 in Reports Women's Rights Convention 1848-1870.
- JK1885 1848a no. 15
- JK1885 1848c no. 11
- JK1885 1848d no. 21 Inscribed: Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. Jan. 1. 1903.
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- ca10003542
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- American Equal Rights Association
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
- Catt, Carrie Chapman
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
- Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)