Representative Women. L. Prang & Co. c1870. Prints and
Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-4891 bibliographic record Among
the first suffrage manuscripts acquired by the Library of
Congress were the papers of Susan B. Anthony's close friend and
colleague Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), [catalog record]
who had launched the suffrage campaign by “sending forth that
daring declaration of rights” at the country's first women's
rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.9 Four
portfolios of Stanton documents accompanied Anthony's gift to
the Library in 1903, to which the Library added other items
donated by Stanton's children or purchased from dealers. Today,
the Stanton Papers (1,000 items; 1814-1946; bulk 1840-1902)
document her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and
women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, civil rights for
African Americans, and other nineteenth-century social reform
movements. The collection includes an official report and
contemporary newspaper clippings relating to the his