Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Born Boston, Massachusetts; Mary Livermore’s career during the Civil War exemplified the emergence of women as both a moral and practical force for reform, a force that altered the political landscape of the late nineteenth century. Livermore, who was strongly religious, plunged into charitable and public works to aid wounded and disadvantaged soldiers. Starting as a volunteer, she became a key figure in the movement to create a national “sanitary commission” to look after these soldiers. Following the war, Livermore transferred her energies to the fight for women’s rights. She founded a suffrage newspaper and served as president of the American Woman Suffrage Association (1875–78).

c. 1880

Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image: 10 × 6 cm (3 15/16 × 2 3/8"); Mount: 10.5 × 6.3 cm (4 1/8 × 2 1/2")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Indeterminable; Photographic format\Carte-de-visite; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Female; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Education\Educator\Lecturer; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Social Reformer; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Literature\Writer\Poet; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Literature\Writer\Magazine article; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Literature\Writer\Novelist; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Suffragist; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Temperance; Portrait

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