Selected Special Collections

Susan B. Anthony Collection

Selected images from the collection

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Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). This work was considered one of the first books written by a woman promoting women's rights to equality.

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In her inscription in this copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Susan B. Anthony explains the book was originally given to well-known anti-slavery and women's rights advocate Lydia Mott (1793-1880) by her friend William Topp, a tailor and black abolitionist from Albany, New York. In 1874, Lydia Mott gave the book to Susan B. Anthony.