Ladies dress reform meeting at Freeman Place
Ladies dress reform meeting at Freeman Place Chapel, Boston, featured on the front page of Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, June 20, 1874. Two women are presenting samples of comfortable womens undergarments to a female audience at a Dress Reform Convention. Dress reformists were largely middleclass women involved in the first wave of feminism in the United States and Britain, from the 1850s through the 1890s
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13125529
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45375157
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1866px x 3000px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
