Amazing Suffrage Photograph with Susan B. Anthony, and four other Suffragettes. Marceau Photographer, Los Angeles, Ca. 1905 9" x 12" Amazing Suffrage Photograph with Susan B. Anthony and four other Suffragettes. Taken in the summer of 1905 at a Suffrage convention in Los Angeles, California. All the women are identified, along with their ages: Caroline Severance 87 years old, Charlotte Wills 81 years old, Rebecca Spring 92 years old, and Susan B. Anthony 86 years old. All these women played an important role in the women's suffrage movement. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Caroline Severance (1820-1914) became an abolitionist and a pioneering activist for women’s rights and social justice. She was the founder of the New England Women’s Club in 1868, the first of its kind, a place where women could meet to discuss social issues, literature, and art, as well as direct their efforts towards the betterment of society as a whole. Having devoted her life to the creation and support of organizations for women, she moved to Los Angeles in 1875, where she was known as “The Mother of Clubs.” Rebecca Spring(1811-1911) She was a Quaker, and part of the abolitionist, feminist, and transcendentalist movements. Rebecca worked hard but unsuccessfully for abolitionist John Brown's acquittal, then later for the commuting of his sentence. Suffragist and philanthropist Charlotte Le Moyne Wills (1824-1908) was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1824, the eldest daughter of surgeon, philanthropist, and reformer Dr. Francis Julius Le Moyne. In her younger years, people called her "the little abolitionist," as runaway slaves were housed on her property.

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