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Engraved Portrait of Julia Ward Howe, Signed
Engraved Portrait of Julia Ward Howe, Signed
ART.000157
Photograph
1909
United States
N/A
Paper
8.3 × 6.5 in. (21.3 × 16.5 cm)
Not on View
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) was a poet and author best known for writing the lyrics to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1861. Howe first published her writings anonymously in 1853 and continued to advocate for abolition and women’s suffrage. After the Civil War, she focused her activities on women’s rights, establishing the Association of American Women and helping found the New England Women’s Club and the New England Woman Suffrage Association. This engraving is no. 279 in a portrait series published in the December 1909 edition of The Book News Monthly and was signed by Howe in March 1910.
Published in December 1909 in The Book News Monthly by John Wanamaker, publisher, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Acquired by 2010 by Gene Albert (Christian Heritage Museum), Hagerstown, Maryland; Privately purchased in 2010 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
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