Programme for Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin, the distinguished lady bankers of New York. ca. 1873. Museum of the City of New York. 54.29.10
Victoria C. Woodhull, delivering her address on constitutional equality before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan. 12, 1871
A rare group of 40 issues of Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, the radical, female-run newspaper that became America’s most notorious publication during the second half of the 19th century; this lot embraces a variety of issues from the final three years…
This rare lot brings together two cartes de visite, one of Woodhull and one of her sister, a copy of their newspaper, and a pamphlet of one of Woodhull's speeches. The CDVs are in excellent condition, with deep, rich toning. There is some fraying to…
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…