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^ 569 together: “those taken separately, it seems to me—are not so perfect— the fault was in both of ourselves—not in the picture taker.” She went on to say, “but they please all the friends exceedingly—and it is the friends who are the best judges— after all.” Woodworth grew up in Seneca Falls, where an uncle had attended the woman’s rights convention and signed the Declaration of Sentiments. (Amy S. Doherty, “Grace Woodworth’s Portrait of Susan B. Anthony: ‘Outside the Common Lines,’” in Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825–1940, ed. David Tatham [Syracuse, N.Y., 1986], 243–51; program for SBA’s eighty-fifth birthday, 15 February 1905, SBA Collection, NRM; SBA to G. A. Woodworth, 14 June 1905, Film, 44:559–60.) ••••••••• 286 • Jenkin Lloyd Jones to SBA [Chicago] January 20, 1906. My Dear Friend:— Greetings. It was good to get word from you and heart-warming to know that I carry your continued sympathies. A day or two after your letter arrived the Lincoln Centre hall was well filled with men and women summoned to promote the woman suffrage plank in the new charter. 1 We mean to push it for all it is worth.There is a bare fighting chance that it will succeed. Very cordially yours, Y TL, carbon, Jenkin Lloyd Jones Papers, ICMe. 1. On 18 January 1906, a coalition of reformers in Chicago rallied to launch a campaign for municipal suffrage for women. SBA sent a message to the event, quoted in the Tribune: “O, do what you can in Chicago now. It is your great oppportunity . If you miss it, it will be a grief to the whole world.” A commission to draft a new charter for the city of Chicago began work in committees in December 1905, while advocates of women’s municipal suffrage organized. Clubs, temperance groups, social settlements, professional societies, and suffrage associations collaborated through the Women’s Committee for the Extension of Municipal Suffrage to Women. In addressing the mass meeting, Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Jane Addams were joined by other local notables. The Abraham Lincoln Center, a kind of social settlement building with an auditorium on its second floor, sat at the corner of Oakwood Boulevard and Langley Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, across from All Souls’ Church where Jones was pastor. (Chicago Daily Tribune,19 January 1906; Woman’s Journal, 27 January 1906; Ida Husted Harper, “Status of Woman Suffrage in the United States,” North American Review 189 [April 1909]: 511–12; Maureen A. Flanagan, Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the 8 january 1906 570 & Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933 [Princeton, N.J., 2002], 73–84; Joseph Siry, “The Abraham Lincoln Center in Chicago,”Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 50 [September 1991]: 235–65.) ••••••••• 287 • College Evening of the NationalAmerican Woman Suffrage Association Editorial note: M. Carey Thomas organized this special program of college students, alumnae, faculty, and presidents as a tribute to SBA. “I feel that college women and women’s colleges owe a great deal to pioneers like Miss Anthony,” Thomas wrote to the president of Mount Holyoke College, “and I should be delighted if we could make some recognition of this while she is able to take pleasure in it.” Newspapers sampled speeches that were later published in full, and in this text, the Baltimore American favored Thomas as a native daughter. SBA was very ill in Baltimore, and College Evening was one of the few events of the National-American’s convention that she attended. (M. C. Thomas to Mary E. Woolley, 21 December 1905, in Papers of M. Carey Thomas in the Bryn Mawr College Archives, Microfilm Collection, ed. Lucy Fisher West, [Woodbridge, Conn., 1981], 109:333–35; The College Evening of the Thirty-eighth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Held in Baltimore, February 8, 1906 [Baltimore, 1906].) [8 February 1906] With the great pioneer suffrage worker, Susan B. Anthony, upon the platform, surrounded by women noted in the college world for their brilliant attainments, as well as those famed for social work, and in other professions, and with a large audience, the session of the woman suffrage convention opened last evening. If the veteran suffragist thought of more than the pleasure of the event, it must have been to contrast the occasion with the times past when, unhonored and unsung, she fought what must often have seemed a losing fight for principles for...

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