Photographic portrait, carte de visite. [ca. 1870]

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Photographic portrait, carte de visite. [ca. 1870]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39062758

Portrait of first woman to run for the presidency. Cornelius Vanderbilt made Woodhull and her sister the first women to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

[1] item ; 10 x 7 cm.

University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System

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University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System

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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927

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Victoria C. Woodhull was a woman's rights pioneer who achieved notoriety on many fronts in Gilded Age America. She founded (with her sister Tennessee Claflin) a Wall Street brokerage, with the support and advice of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull used profits to publish Woodhull & Claflin Weekly, advocating female suffrage, free love, and other progressive causes. Later she addressed House committee on suffrage, and exposed the Beecher-Tilton scandal, implicating celebrated minister Henry War...