Josiah Holbrook
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Josiah Holbrook was the initiator and organizer of the lyceum movement in the United States. He formed the first industrial school in the country in 1819, organized the first lyceum school in the coun
1826 portrait
Geometrical form blocks made by Holbrook Apparatus Manufacturing Company, circa 1858
Holbrook hinged pocket globe with hinge
Holbrook school Planetarium Orrery apparatus
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she col
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…training. He attracted notable speakers to the lyceum schools included Louis Agassiz, Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Nathaniel Hawthorne and Susan B. Anthony, as well as occasional talks by William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass. He was considered 50 years ahead of his time in teaching…
Anthony in 1890
Anthony in 1848; at age 28
Letter by Anthony to US Congress in favor of Women's Suffrage
Cover of Life magazine in 1913. Titled "Ancient History", it shows an Anthony-like figure in classical dress leading a protest for women's rights.