‘When Anthony Met Stanton’ is a bronze sculpture commemorating a historic moment – the first time Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in May 1851. The event occurred after an anti-slavery meeting, which Anthony, Stanton, and Amelia Bloomer attended.
As presented in the sculpture, Bloomer is standing in the center, introducing between Anthony (on the left side) and Stanton (on the right side). Bloomer and Stanton are wearing their ‘reform dresses’ – a knee-length skirt over pantaloons, known as ‘bloomers’ after bloomer herself. Stanton is holding a book, as an expression of being the intellectual force behind the movement. This moment was the beginning of the friendship and cooperation of the two leaders of the women’s rights movement, which fought for voting and equal rights for women.
The sculptor was created by Professor A. E. ‘Ted’ Aub and dedicated in Seneca Falls on July 18, 1998, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the first women’s rights convention which held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19–20th, 1848.
Several other landmarks in Seneca Falls celebrate the US women’s rights movement. Among them are the Ripples of Change Monument honoring Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Sojourner Truth, the National Women’s Hall of Fame, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, and the Women’s Rights National Historical Park.
All these places and more are featured on the Wander Women Project’s itinerary in Seneca Falls. Click here for all the details.
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