taken on the front porch of the family homestead in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony, the "Dowager Empress" of the early woman's rights movement, is seated at the center. Around her:

• Harriet Taylor Upton (front row, far left), Ohio-based suffragist and National American Woman Suffrage Association treasurer; later first woman Vice-Chair of the Republican National Committee
• Anna Howard Shaw, the first female Methodist minister in the United States, a close confidant of Anthony, member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915.
• Rachel Foster Avery (seated next to Anthony, right), corresponding NAWSA secretary and one of Anthony's suffrage "daughters," and organizer of the International Council of Women.
• Alice Stone Blackwell (front row, far right), noted suffragist, editor of the leading woman's rights newspaper, the Woman's Journal, and recording secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association, 1890-1918, daughter of suffragist Lucy Stone.
• Mary Garrett Hay (standing, far left), member of the NAWSA organizing committee, partner of Carrie Chapman Catt, and later Chair of the Republican Women's National Executive Committee, 1919-1920.
• May Wright Sewall (standing, center-right), member of the NAWSA executive committee and president of the American chapter of the National Council of Women, 1897-1899 and the International Council of Women, 1899-1904.
• Carrie Chapman Catt (standing, second from right), leading suffragist and later peace activist, and NAWSA chairperson, 1895-1900; President, 1901-1904 and 1915-1920, and International Woman Suffrage Alliance President, 1904-1923
• Ida A. Husted Harper (back row, far right), journalist and considered the unofficial "historian" of the woman's suffrage movement. One of its leading pamphleteers, and author of the authorized 3-volume biography of Anthony.