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Women’s Suffrage: Pictures of Suffragists and their Activities

Portraits

This gallery of portraits features women who campaigned for women's rights, particularly voting rights. Clicking on an image or text will open a new browser window tab to a larger image and the full online record for more information.


Susan B. Anthony

S. A. Taylor, photographer. [Susan B. Anthony, full-length portrait, seated, facing left]. [between 1880 and 1906]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Alice Stone Blackwell

[Alice Stone Blackwell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]. [between 1880 and 1900]. Brady-Handy Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Nannie Helen Burroughs. [between 1900 and 1920]. Photoprint by The Rotograph Co. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Carrie Chapman Catt

[Carrie Chapman Catt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front . c1914. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis

Manchester Bros, photographer. Paulina W. Davis. [between 1850 and 1881]. From an engraving by John Chester Butte. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Abigail Scott Duniway

[Abigail Scott Duniway, bust portrait, facing right]. [between 1870 and 1890]. May Wright Sewall Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Julia Ward Howe

[Julia Ward Howe, half-length portrait, seated, facing left]. c1908. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Mary Livermore

[Mary A. Livermore, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. Copyright by J.E. Purdy, Boston, [ca. 1901]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Belva Lockwood

[Lawyer Belva Lockwood, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. [between 1880 and 1890, printed later]. Brady-Handy Collection. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Lucretia Mott

[Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right]. [between 1860(?) and 1880]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Maud Wood Park

[Maud Wood Park, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]. [between 1915 and 1925(?)]. League of Women Voters (U.S.) Records. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Alice Paul

[Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glass with right hand]. Copyright by Harris & Ewing, 1920. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Anna Howard Shaw

[Anna Howard Shaw, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing academic robe and holding large feather]. c1920. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot. [between 1890 and 1910 of daguerreotype taken 1856]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

[Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony, standing, three-quarter length portrait], [between 1880 and 1902]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Lucy Stone

[Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]. [between 1840 and 1860]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Mary Church Terrell

[Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]. [between 1880 and 1900, printed later]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Harriet Tubman

Harvey B. Lindsley, 1842-1921, photographer. [Portrait of Harriet Tubman]. [taken between 1871 and 1876?, printed between 1895 and 1910]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Frances Willard

[Frances Willard, half-length portrait, seated, facing left] [between 1880 and 1898]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Fannie Barrier Williams

Paul Tralles, photographer. [Bust portrait of educator and activist, Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)]. [ca. 1885]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.