In 1884 Augusta Joyce Crocheron created the poster entitled “Representative Women of Deseret” as a tribute to female leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The engraving contains photographs of twenty women as well as illustrations of LDS cultural and religious motifs. A book by the same name contains biographies of each of the women pictured.
This website will allow you to examine in detail the different facets of this poster, and to link the biographies as they were written with the women as pictured. Analysis of the material culture also provides valuable historical and cultural information and insight into the lives of these women.
Several copies of the poster exist. The Library of Congress owns one, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Archives owns one. The Daughers of Utah Pioneers also has a copy.
