Smithsonian receives oil painting portrait of

November 17, 1939 - Smithsonian receives portrait of famed suffrage leader. Washington, D.C. Miss Marguerite H. Welles, President of the National League of Women Voters, presenting to Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, an oil painting of 80 year old Carrie Chapman Catt. The portrait will be hung in the Smithsonian Institution with the ones of three other famed suffrage leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. A gift of Mrs. Stanley McCormick of Chicago, the portrait was painted by Mary Foote in 1927

1920-1929 Cady Carrie Catt Chapman Famed Foote Hung Likeness Marguerite Mccormick Old-fashion Presenting Smithsonian Stanton Voters Voting Welles Wetmore

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