Susan B. Anthony’s Gavel, 1888
Object Details
- associated institution
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- general subject association
- History, Women's Suffrage
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Lucy E. Anthony
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- PL.043956
- catalog number
- 43956
- accession number
- 166408
- Object Name
- gavel
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- ivory (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 3/4 in; 27.305 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_529601