In mid-nineteenth-century America, the growing presence of women in
public life coincided with the rise of portrait photography. This
exhibition of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from the 1840s and 1850s
features portraits of early feminist icons, women's rights advocates
Margaret Fuller and Lucy Stone, abolitionist Lucretia Mott and
best-selling author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ann Shumard, the National
Portrait Gallery's senior curator of photographs, is the curator of
this exhibition.
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