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- Collection: The Claflin Sisters: “Bewitching Brokers and Queens of Finance”
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#MeToo Started in 1872
Before the social support for today’s #MeToo movement, two women courageously denounced and accused two public figures, and exposed the rampant sexual misconduct of “the most famous man in America,” the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, and others—in…
Female Brokers Securing a Customer
"A new sensation was afforded Wall Street in the announcement that two ladies had taken rooms on the street, and were about to do a first-class brokers busi-ness, dealing in stocks and gold. The ladies rejoiced in the name of Victoria C. Woodhull,…
From the New York Evening Telegraph, February 18th, 1870. Reprinted in One Moral Standard for All: Extracts from the lives of Victoria Clafin Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.16.7.
From the New York Evening Telegraph, February 18th, 1870. Reprinted in One Moral Standard for All: Extracts from the lives of Victoria Clafin Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.16.7.
March 5, 1870 issue of “Harper’sBazar,” with engravings of Victoria Woodhull and her sister, Tennie C. Claflin
"This lot features a full page from the March 5, 1870 issue of “Harper’sBazar,” with engravings of Victoria Woodhull and her sister, Tennie C. Claflin. Here they are simply listed as “Lady Stockbrokers,” ... A nice early woman suffrage piece in very…