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Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists,
Biography of Anna Ginsberg (), Beatrice Cohen (?), Hannah Davis (?)
and Bertha Rogovin (?)
By Janet Lindenmuth, Librarian, Widener University Delaware Law School
Anna Ginsberg, Beatrice Cohen, Hannah Davis and Bertha Rogovin were four adventurous young Jewish women from New York City who were active in the movement for women's suffrage and took part in some of the most radical protests of the National Woman's Party.
Anna Ginsberg was born about in Lithuania. Her family were Jewish immigrants who arrived in the United States in and settled in Brooklyn. Her older brothers and sisters were factory workers, but Anna was able to get an education and attended a summer program at Cornell University. She worked as a proofreader/typist for The Liberator, the socialist magazine edited by Max and Crystal Eastman in Greenwich Village.
National Woman's Party organizer Rebecca Hourwich recruited a group of New York City women to join the suffrage cause. One of these young women was Anna Ginsberg. Also recruited were Anna's friends, three other youn
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American photographer Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio on July 17, She attended Columbus Public Schools and studied briefly at Ohio State University before moving to New York City. In , she was a darkroom assistant to the American Dadaist and Surrelist Man Ray in Paris. While there, she came into contact with the French photographer Eugene Atget, whose documentary work was at that time virtually unknown. In , Abbott set up her own photography studio and made several portraits of well-known Parisian expatriates, artists, writers and aristocrats. After Atget's death, Abbott retrieved his prints and negatives, saving them from destruction and promoted his work.
Returning to New York City in , she continued to do portraits and began documenting the city in photographs. Her five decades of accomplishments behind the camera range from portraiture and modernist experimentation to documentation and scientific interpretation. Her contributions as photographic educator, inventor, author and historian are equally diverse. She authored seventeen books, received four U.S. patents and taught photography at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Abbott's