SUSAN BROWNELL ANTHONY: Born at Adams, (Berkshire Co.) Massachusetts in 1820, Miss Anthony became a famous reformer and leader in the women's suffrage movement. Susan taught school and then became interested in temperance. At a meeting in Albany, NY, she was told that "the Sisters were not invited there to speak but to listen and learn." She left and organized the Woman's State Temperance Society of New York.

Miss Anthony lectured on temperance, slavery and women's rights. For a time she supported dress reform and wore "bloomers," but she decided to give them up because they interfered with her main crusade, to get women the right to vote.

Miss Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton of NY in 1851 and they became close friends and associates. In 1869 they separated from the women suffragists who had accepted Amendment 15 to the U.S. Constitution that gave the vote to negro men but not to women.

From 1868 to 1870, Miss Anthony edited the magazine, "The Revolution." In 1872, she was arrested for voting and her trial attracted nationwide attention. She served as president of the reunited woman suffragists from 1892 to 1900.

Her younger sister, Mary S. Anthony, shared her sister's dedication to the suffrage movement, perhaps the largest single reform movement of the Progressive Era. Mary kept scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, convention progams, other contemporary accounts, and portraits of some leading figures in the movement, many of whom displayed comparable commitments to other reform initiatives including abolitionism, temperance, prison conditions, and labor relations. That historians know as much as they do about the suffrage compaign is due in large part to the women's own efforts to record their history. Some of the pictures in Mary's scrapbook (Rochester, NY, 1892-1901) are of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Martha C. Wright (1st Pres. NY State Suffrage Assoc., elected 1860), Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, (4th Pres, NYS, who served six years beginning in 1890), Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and Dorothea Lynde Dix.

Susan B. Anthony also assembled 33 scrapbooks of similar material from the 1850s to the early 1900s. She wrote this inscription inside the last volume: "But that future generations of women may see and learn of the struggles that the pioneers went through--I give these scrap-books and all they contain that is false as well as true--to The Library of Congress."