[ Photographs ] ( Abolitionists) Portrait of Anna Dickinson. Unique sepia- toned transfer photograph on milk glass, approximately half-plate size or 5x 3.5 inches, in an unusual brass preserver and stippled mat; in a lovely red velvet oval push-

[ Photographs ] ( Abolitionists) Portrait of Anna Dickinson. Unique sepia- toned transfer photograph on milk glass, approximately half-plate size or 5x 3.5 inches, in an unusual brass preserver and stippled mat; in a lovely red velvet oval push- button Victorian case 1860s E3000-5000 Anna Dickinson was born to an Orthodox Quaker family, in Philadelphia, and began to speak and write about abolition as a young woman. In 1856 she contributed an essay to William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper, "The Liberator," and, in 1860, addressed the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. While Lucretia Mott and Hannah Longshore were among her fans, her greatest success came in 1863, when the Republican Party asked her to tour on behalf of its candidates, Throughout the 1860s, Dickinson continued to lecture on the rights of women and African-Americans.