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Bust of Susan B. Anthony by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
Bust of Lucretia Mott by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
Bust of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
Beginning with a commission from NAWSA, sculptor Adelaide Johnson created multiple marble busts of the women she called "the trinity." Johnson believed that the Quaker abolitionist Mott represented spiritual leadership, the prolific writer Stanton intellectual leadership, and organizer and agitator Anthony "vital" leadership of the suffrage movement. |