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A research guide to the history of women and family in America.

The Peale Family

Charles Willson Peale's depiction of his family via NY History

Elizabeth Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot via Wikipedia

The Coleman Sisters, 1845

Margaret Coleman Freeman [1820-1894], one of the sitters; her daughter, Margaret Freeman Buckingham [1857-1946], her nephew, William Coleman Freeman [1881-1955]

Isabel Coleman; Sarah Hand Coleman; and Margaret Coleman Freeman via National Gallery of Art

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth, 1870

Sojourner Truth, 1970 via Wikipedia

Ida Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells Barnett, in a photograph by Mary Garrity from c. 1893

Ida B. Wells Barnett, in a photograph by Mary Garrity from c. 1893 via wikipedia

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony, 1870

Susan B. Anthony, 1870 via Wikipedia