Officers of the Mothers' Congress, Feb. 7, 1897, Wash., D.C. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 3rd from right, 1st row - Letitia Green Stevenson, wife of Vice President Adlai Stevenson, 2nd from left, 1st row – Antique Wall Art
![Officers of the Mothers' Congress, Feb. 7, 1897, Wash., D.C. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 3rd from right, 1st row - Letitia Green Stevenson, wife of Vice President Adlai Stevenson, 2nd from left, 1st row, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6f89a965ceac-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Officers of the Mothers' Congress, Feb. 7, 1897, Wash., D.C. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 3rd from right, 1st row - Letitia Green Stevenson, wife of Vice President Adlai Stevenson, 2nd from left, 1st row. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Officers of the Mothers' Congress, Feb. 7, 1897, Wash., D.C. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 3rd from right, 1st row - Letitia Green Stevenson, wife of Vice President Adlai Stevenson, 2nd from left, 1st row
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Two named women anchor this group portrait of the officers of the Mothers' Congress, taken in Washington on February 7, 1897: Phoebe Apperson Hearst, third from right in the front row, and Letitia Green Stevenson, second from left, wife of Vice President Adlai Stevenson. The congress had been organized that same winter to bring mothers and educators together around child rearing and schooling, and it later evolved into the National PTA. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a prominent women photographer of the period, made the picture, and its formal arrangement shows how the organization presented itself in Washington society.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1910.Photographic prints 1890-1910. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Mothers; Women --; B.I. (2); Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,078 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110386 |
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