Price: $110.00
SKU: 47839
ARTIST: E. Morse
PUBLISHER: Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 26, 1875.
MEDIUM: Wood engraving, handcolored.
DATE: 1875
EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 x 14 1/4" (230 x 361mm) plus title and margins.
DESCRIPTION: A 19th-century view of Boffin's Bower, Boston, captured as a wood engraving and handcolored to highlight the details. <br><br> Jennie Collins (1828–1887) was an American labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist. Orphaned as a child, she began supporting herself at 14 by working in cotton mills and later as a domestic and seamstress. Collins was active in the abolitionist and labor movements, volunteered in military hospitals during the Civil War, and founded Boffin's Bower, a charity for poor working women in Boston. In 1870, she addressed the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington at Susan B. Anthony's invitation. The following year, she published "Nature's Aristocracy; Or, Battles and Wounds in Time of Peace. A Plea for the Oppressed," becoming one of the first working-class women in the United States to publish a volume of her own writings.
ADDITIONAL INFO: This piece is in an 18 x 14" mat for handling.
CONDITION: Good condition with modern handcoloring.
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