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Victoria Woodhull.

Bradley & Rulofson, 429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco - Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Historical Photographs and Special Visual Collections Department, Fine Arts Library.

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Tennie Claflin, Victoria's younger sister, was also known as Tennessee Claflin Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Tennie Celeste Claflin, Lady Cook, and Lady Tennessee Celeste Claflin.

War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (08/01/1866 - 09/18/1947).

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Tennie Claflin.

"At 14, Woodhull and Claflin, then 7, were marketed by their father as mediums who could heal people and communicate with the dead. They became the family's primary breadwinners."​
-Insider, 2016

Wikimedia Commons.

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Miss Tennessee Claflin
receiving orders for Stock Speculation, 1870.

Reprinted in One Moral Standard for All: Extracts from the lives of Victoria Clafin Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.16.7.

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The Claflin Sisters, the "Lady Brokers."

From the New York Evening Telegraph, February 18th, 1870. Reprinted in One Moral Standard for All: Extracts from the lives of Victoria Clafin Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.16.7.

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Victoria Woodhull & Tennie Claflin.

Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin, the distinguished lady bankers of New York. ca. 1873. Museum of the City of New York. 54.29.10

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Victoria Woodhull & Tennie Claflin.

Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin, the distinguished lady bankers of New York. ca. 1873. Museum of the City of New York. 54.29.10

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Victoria Woodhull, "Mrs. Satan."

Thomas Nast (1840-1902) for Harper’s Weekly. “Get Thee Behind Me, (Mrs.) Satan!”. 1872. Museum of the City of New York. 99.124.22.

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Victoria Woodhull.

Convention in Apollo Hall, New York City, Victoria Claflin Woodhull Nominated for the President of the United States, 1872. Reprinted in One Moral Standard for All: Extracts from the lives of Victoria Clafin Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.16.7.

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Victoria Woodhull & Tennie Claflin.

Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennie Claflin attempt to assert their right to vote in New York and are denied, circa 1875. Photograph: Kean Collection/Getty Images
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