[Women]. [Claflin, Tennessee C.]

[Carte-de-Visite of Tennie C. Claflin]

Portland, Me. Geo. Stinson & Co., [ca. 1870]. Carte-de-visite, 3.75 x 2.5 inches. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good. Item #5091

A lovely and early image of Tennie C. Claflin -- suffragist, Spiritualist, and Wall Street Broker. Along with her notorious sister, Victoria Woodhull, Claflin opened a Wall Street brokerage firm in 1870, likely issuing this image as part of the promotion of the endeavor. (Other copies or version we have found include the caption, "Tennie C. Claflin, Broker.") Claflin also owned and edited a weekly newspaper with her sister starting in 1870, Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, a publication that advocated Free Love and other radical ideas. The pair famously tried to vote (unsuccessfully) in 1871. Their brokerage firm collapsed in the Panic of 1873, and they later moved to London following a bout of scandal involving Henry Ward Beecher.

Price: $350.00