Item from the Elizabeth Cady Staton Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College. The collection includes a variety of materials on such subjects as women's rights, suffrage, feminism, religion, abolition, temperance, travel, and social conditions for women.
Papers include correspondence with Susan B. Anthony, Paulina Wright Davis, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Gerrit Smith, and others relating to family matters, her children, the woman's movement, her lectures and travels, publication of her books and articles, women and religion, abolition, temperance, and
Recto and verso of photograph of engraving by H.B. Hall, N.Y. On verso: "from. Eminent Women of the Age"
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