Susan B. Anthony

Her principal cause, women's suffrage, would not be realized until 1920, long after her death, when Congress enacted the 19th Amendment.

Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was one of the 19th-century’s most successful reformers: (hello) A lecturer, advocate for temperance and abolitionism, and pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States. She fought for fair women’s wages, property and land rights for women, and legal rights of mother’s for their children. In 1869, Anthony, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National Woman Suffrage Association which paved the way for nineteenth amendment (1920) to the Federal Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Bold and indefatigable, Anthony is the only women whose likeness has ever appeared on any U.S. currency -- currently the country’s largest denomination coin, the dollar.ProvenanceEdward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes; [Holman's Print Shop, Boston]; I.N. Phelps Stokes, New York, 1937
Signatures, Inscriptions, and MarkingsMarks: Hallmark, BL: B.F. 40 (see Spirit of Fact #5, p. 152)
Inscriptions: Inscribed in pencil, verso: "Susan B. Anthony // 1820-1906"

NotesBiography: Born into an activist Quaker family in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) devoted her life to the major causes of her day-temperance, abolition, feminism, and labor rights. In 1845, the Anthony family moved to Rochester, New York, where their farm served as a meeting place for abolitionists, including Fredrick Douglass and William Llyod Garrison. Her freindship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which began at an antislavery convention in 1851, along with the sexiest attitudes of temperance workers (as a woman, she was prohibited from speaking at public rallies), deepend her commitment to women's rights, and she quickly became one of the movement's ablest leaders. Her principal cause, women's suffrage, would not be realized until 1920, long after her death, when Congress enacted the 19th Amendment.