Lucretia Coffin Mott

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Born Nantucket, Massachusetts; Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention that launched the women's movement in the United States. As a Quaker and like most reformers in this era, she was drawn to the antislavery cause, helping to found Philadelphia's Female Anti-Slavery Society. This experience convinced her that women had a special role in reform movements and that the struggle for women's rights would be essential for reform causes in America. She urged women to "go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being."

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irwin Reichstein, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

c. 1865

Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image/Sheet: 8.9 x 6.1 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/8"); Mount: 10 x 6.4 cm (3 15/16 x 2 1/2")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Photographic format\Carte-de-visite; Interior\Studio\Photography; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Female; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Education\Educator\Lecturer; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Social Reformer; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Education\Educator\Teacher; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Suffragist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Women's rights advocate; Portrait

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