1. Anita Lily Pollitzer was an American photographer and suffragist.
11 Facts About Anita Pollitzer
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Anita Lily Pollitzer was born October 31,1894, in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Anita Pollitzer's parents were Clara Guinzburg Pollitzer, the daughter of an immigrant rabbi from Prague, and Gustave Pollitzer, who ran a cotton company at Charleston, South Carolina.
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Anita Pollitzer was later a "nonobservant" Jew and relied upon her own personal strength, rather than reliance on religion.
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Anita Pollitzer graduated from Memminger High School in 1913 and left Charleston to study art at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Anita Pollitzer "gained recognition for her close friendship with Georgia O'Keeffe", whom she met at Columbia University.
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O'Keeffe mailed a set of charcoal drawings she made in 1915 to Anita Pollitzer, who took them to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery early in 1916.
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Anita Pollitzer wrote a book entitled A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe that contained letters that she exchanged with O'Keeffe since they attended Columbia University.
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Anita Pollitzer was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment.
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In 1926, Anita Pollitzer represented South Carolina at the International Feminists Conference in Paris.
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Anita Pollitzer held positions of leadership in the National Woman's Party serving as National Chairman from 1945 until 1949.