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Anna Dickie Olesen, ca. 1920

Anna Dickie Olesen, ca. 1920. Photograph Collection, Carlton County Historical Society, Cloquet.

Anna Dickie Olesen

Anna Dickie Olesen. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC, ca. 1922. Photograph Collection, Carlton County Historical Society, Cloquet.

Olesen, Anna Dickie (1885–1971)

The first female nominee of a major party for the US Senate, Anna Dickie Olesen was a celebrated orator and passionate social reformer who became one of the most prominent Democratic women of the early twentieth century.

Julia Ward Howe, 1908

Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), ca. 1908.

George A. Pillsbury

George A. Pillsbury, ca. 1893. Photo by Samuel Sartain.

Sarah Burger Stearns

Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904), 1897. From American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, editors. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897 (revised edition from 1893), vol. 2, 681.