[Abigail Scott Duniway, bust portrait, facing right]

Archive record

On mount: E.W. Moore, Portland Oregon, successor to Abell & Son. May Wright Sewall Collection. Signed: Yours for Liberty, Abigail Scott Duniway. On verso: Pioneer suffragist of the Northwest. Title devised by Library staff. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 56.

About this photograph

This portrait of Abigail Scott Duniway was taken in 1870 by E.W. Moore of Portland, Oregon. The photograph bears Duniway's signature with the phrase "Yours for Liberty."

The mount identifies Moore as successor to Abell & Son. A notation on the reverse describes Duniway as a pioneer suffragist of the Northwest. The photograph was later part of the May Wright Sewall Collection and published in a Library of Congress guide to women's history in 2001.

Beyond these details from the archive record itself, no additional context about Duniway's life or work is available here.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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