Susan B. Anthony’s Gavel, 1888
name: label: associated institution
content: National American Woman Suffrage Association
notes: label: Description
content: This rosewood and ivory gavel was presented to Susan B. Anthony by delegates from forty-nine countries invited to attend a meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association. The meeting resulted in the formation of the International Congress of Women. The gavel was used by Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt to chair Woman Suffrage conventions. The head is engraved “order is Heaven’s first law,” and, “Nat’l Woman Suffrage Assn. March 25 1888,” The quote, “order is Heaven’s first law,” comes from Alexander Pope’s 1734 poem, An Essay on Man.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: History, Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lucy E. Anthony
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.043956
label: catalog number
content: 43956
label: accession number
content: 166408
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gavel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in; 27.305 cm