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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Sitter
Tennessee Celeste Claflin, 26 Oct 1845 - 8 Jan1923
Date
c. 1872
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 8.6 × 5.7 cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/4")
Mount: 10 × 6.2 cm (3 15/16 × 2 7/16")
Topic
Interior
Photographic format\Carte-de-visite
Tennessee Celeste Claflin: Female
Tennessee Celeste Claflin: Journalism and Media\Journalist
Tennessee Celeste Claflin: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist
Tennessee Celeste Claflin: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist\Women's rights advocate
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
S/NPG.80.43
Exhibition Label
In 1868, Tennessee Claflin moved from Ohio to New York City with her sister Victoria Woodhull. With the help of businessman Cornelius Vanderbilt, they opened a brokerage firm on Wall Street called Woodhull, Claflin and Co. in 1870—the first women ever to do so. Shortly thereafter, the “Lady Bankers” started Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, a reform magazine that sought to secure the rights of women through open discussions on topics such as education, abortion, and “free love,” or sex outside of marriage.
En 1868, Tennessee Claflin se mudó de Ohio a Nueva York con su hermana Victoria Woodhull. Con ayuda del magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt abrieron en 1870 una agencia de corretaje en Wall Street llamada Woodhull, Claflin and Co., siendo las primeras mujeres en emprender tal negocio. Poco después, las “señoras banqueras” comenzaron a publicar Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, una revista reformista que abogaba por los derechos de las mujeres mediante la discusión abierta de temas tales como la educación, el aborto y el “amor libre” o sexo fuera del matrimonio.
