PICTURE, PORTRAIT
[Original Art]

Accession Number: 1983.3383.1

Entitled: American Woman and Her Political Peers

Physical Description: This 58" x 48" pastel titled American Woman and her Political Peers. Pictured at the center is Frances E. Willard, American educator and reformer. Portrayed around Miss Willard (clockwise from upper left) are a mentally disabled man, a convict, a madman, and a disenfranchised Native American. Henrietta Briggs-Wall of Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas designed the picture and commissioned Mr. W. A. Ford, also of Hutchinson, to execute it. Mrs. Briggs-Wall was active with the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association and with national and state chapters of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Date: Between 1892 and 1893

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Creators and Contributors

Ford, W. A.

Status: Inventoried

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