Advocate Collection (#5)

LUCY BURNS (1879-1966). American suffragette and womens rights advocate. Photograph, 1913

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American womens suffrage advocate. Photographed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, c1880-1902

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American leader of the early woman-suffrage movement

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American womans suffrage advocate. A 1912 Art Young cartoon showing the spirit of Susan B. Anthony inspiring the womens rights cause throughout America

EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN (1832-1912). Liberian (West Indian-born) writer, educator, politician, and diplomat; proponent of Pan-Africanism. Photographed c1880

GEORGI APOLLONOVICH GAPON (c1870-1906). Russian priest and labor organizer. With the chief of police of St.Petersburg, Russia, 1904

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American woman-suffrage advocate

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American womans suffrage advocate. Susan (right) with her sister, Mary Stafford Anthony, c1905

ALVA ERSKINE BELMONT (1853-1933). American socialist and womens rights advocate. Photograph, c1919

ABBY SCOTT BAKER (1871-1944). American womens rights advocate and National Womens Party leader. Photographed in prison clothes at Occoquan Workhouse after being jailed for protesting, 1917

SUFFRAGETTES, 1914. Group of suffragettes. Left to right: Rose Winslow, Lucy Burns, Doris Stevens, Ruth Astor Noyes, Anna McGue, Jane Pincus and Jessie H. Stubbs. Photograph, 1914

WOMENs RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Petition, signed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of the National Womens Suffrage Association to Congress, 1873

WOMENs RIGHTS CARTOON. The Apotheosis of Liberty. American cartoon, 1896, by George Y. Coffin, showing the womens suffrage advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B

VICTORIA CLAFLIN WOODHULL (1838-1927). American reformer. Victoria Claflin Woodhull reading her argument in favor of womens suffrage before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives in

The Bourzat Fountain at Brive, France. Pierre-Simeon Bourzat (1800-1868) - lawyer, friend of Victor Hugo and advocate for the poor. Date: circa 1907

Coalition Government. Duke of Devonshire and Arthur Balfour (centre) trying to control Joseph Chamberlain, leader of junior party in coalition

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) English economist and clergyman, author of Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798. Advocate of population control

The Election. The Polling - Plate II of series of four. Old soldier tenders oath but is challenged by advocate as, having lost right hand, cannot lay it on book

Lydia Ernestine Becker (1827-1890) British advocate of female suffrage, editor of Womens Suffrage Journal 1870-90. Wrapped in the Womens Suffrage bill, being thrown out of Parliament

Title page of first volume of third edition (1806) of Malthus Essay on the Principle of Population: first edition 1798. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) English cleric and economist

Feargus O Connor (1795-1855) Irish Chartist leader and advocate of Irish rights. Organised the Chartist meeting on Kennington Common, London, 1848. Engraving, London, 1844

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1849-1902) English Conservative politician born in America. Member of Parliament for Eye, Suffolk (1880-1885) and Sheffield Ecclesall (1885-1902)

Portia, disguised as an advocate Balthazar, defends Antonio against Shylock s
Portia, disguised as an advocate Balthazar, defends Antonio against Shylocks claim for a pound of flesh in settlement of his debt. The Merchant of Venice Act IV, Scene I

Naval Court-martial On Board H. m. s. Swiftsure
Naval Court-martial On Board H.m.s. Swiftsure, Devonport, On The Stranding Of H.m.s. Howe: Mr. Bousfield, Q.c.; Admiral H. Fairfax; Mr. Rickard (judge Advocate); Admiral Sir R.m. Molyneux

John Bright (1811 - 1889) English Quaker Radical statesman. Advocate of the Anti - Corn Law League and of Free Trade. Bright speaking at an election meeting at Birmingham, November 1885. Engraving

Seneca the Elder, Roman orator C015 / 5787
Seneca the Elder (c.54 BC-c.39 AD), Roman orator. Seneca, called the Elder to distinguish him from his son, was born in Cordoba (present-day Spain) in the Roman province of Hispania

MARY EDWARDS WALKER (1832-1919). American physician and womens rights advocate

(1832-1919). American physician and womans rights advocate. Line engraving, late 19th century
MARY EDWARDS WALKER (1832-1919). American physician and womans rights advocate. Line engraving, late 19th century

(1832-1919). American physician and womens rights advocate. Photograph, c1912
MARY EDWARDS WALKER (1832-1919). American physician and womens rights advocate. Photograph, c1912

HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679). English philosopher. Advocate of the despotism. Opera Philosophica, edition of the complete works by Hobbes carried

The Apotheosis of Liberty. American cartoon, late 19th century, showing the womens suffrage advocates Elizabeth cady
WOMENs RIGHTS CARTOON. The Apotheosis of Liberty. American cartoon, late 19th century, showing the womens suffrage advocates Elizabeth cady Stanton and Susan B

League to Enforce Peace
LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE. William H. Taft seated in the middle of a group of members of the League to Enforce Peace, founded by Taft after the outbreak of World War I in Europe. Photograph, 1916

Suffrage: Woodhull Sisters
SUFFRAGE: WOODHULL SISTERS. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and her sister, Tennessee Claflin, unsuccessfully attempting to vote in New York City on election day, 1871. Color engraving

MARY EDWARDS WALKER (1832-1919). American physician and womans rights advocate. Photographed wearing the Medal of Honor, c1865

NEAL DOW (1804-1897). American temperance advocate. Wood engraving, American, 19th century

BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD (1830-1917). American lawyer and womens rights advocate. Steel engraving, American, c1884

VICTORIA CLAFLIN WOODHULL (1838-1927). American reformer. George Francis Train (with pistol) visiting Victoria Claflin Woodhull and her sister, Tennessee Claflin

LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT (1793-1880). American Quaker minister and woman-suffrage advocate. Line and mezzotint engraving, 19th century

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American leader of the early woman-suffrage movement. Pictured on US postage stamp, 1936

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). American woman-suffrage advocate. Wood engraving, American, 1870

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902). American woman-suffrage advocate. Line and stipple engraving, 19th century

SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906). Steel engraving, 19th century

WOMENs RIGHTS, 1870s. A meeting of the National Womens Suffrage Association in the 1870s with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the platform. Contemporary colored engraving

Caricature - William Eugene Pussyfoot Johnson
Satirical postcard, railing against the arrival in Great Britain of William Eugene " Pussyfoot" Johnson (18621945), a leading American advocate of prohibition

Pierre Belloi, Lawyer
PIERRE BELLOI French advocate-general and writer Date: 16th century (?)

Ezra, Prophet
EZRA Jewish priest and scribe, a teacher of the Torah, advocate of strict observance of the law, particularly opposing the taking of foreign wives. Date: circa 459 BCE

LUCY BURNS (1879-1966). American suffragist and womens rights advocate. Photographed in jail, 1917

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