Library Company of Philadelphia
#TBT to November 5, 1872, when suffragist Susan B. Anthony cast a vote for the first time, though it was against the law for women to vote. Regarding the vote, Anthony wrote to her friend and fellow suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton “Well I have been & gone & done it!!” Anthony was later brought to trial and fined $100 for breaking the law, but that did not stop the suffrage movement. As one contemporary newspaper stated, “If it is a mere question of who got the best of it, Miss Anthony is still ahead. She has voted and the American constitution has survived the shock. Fining her one hundred dollars does not rule out the fact that…women voted, and went home, and the world jogged on as before.”
Susan Brownwell Anthony, 1820-1906.
ca. 1870.
1 photographic print : albumen on carte de visite mount ; 4 x 2.5 in. (10 x 6 cm.)
from the American Celebrities Album.