Susan B. Anthony Pictures

Images of a Woman Suffrage Pioneer

Public relations portrait of Susan B. Anthony as used in the History of Woman Suffrage by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Volume I, published in 1881. — Engraved by G.E. Perine & Co., NY/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

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Updated on May 14, 2019

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is one of the best-known of the women who worked for decades to win the vote for women.

This picture of Susan B. Anthony is adapted from the portrait in the History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others.

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Susan B. Anthony and Her Sister Mary

Susan B. Anthony is pictured here with her sister Mary.

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) and Susan B. Anthony. Photo circa 1880-1902. — Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division/Public domain

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two women who shared a commitment to winning the vote and other rights for women were quite different otherwise.

Pictured here, Stanton is seated and Anthony is standing.

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two women with different strengths and interests but a shared interest in women's rights. This photo is from about 1891.

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Susan B. Anthony Reading

Susan B. Anthony, seated, facing left, reading. — Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs division/Public Domain

Susan B. Anthony was perhaps the best-known of the woman suffrage activists of the 19th and very early 20th centuries.

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Susan B. Anthony

Woman suffrage activists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked together for votes for women for many decades, but the winning of the battle was for another generation.

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Susan B. Anthony Gravesite

Kneeling, Miss Alice Paul, vice president of National Woman's Party, and Miss Anita Pollitzer, national secretary, laying a tribute of flowers on the grave of Susan B. Anthony, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.

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Susan B. Anthony Dollar

1981 Susan B. Anthony Coin — Heritage Auctions/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0

The Susan B. Anthony dollar was replaced in 2000 by a coin featuring the Native American woman Sacagawea.