Lincoln Memorial Dedication Poem, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1922

printed card, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches, inscribed on verso by Shanks, in very good, clean condition.

Shanks is today remembered less as a poet than as the Rochester, New York nurse of Susan B. Anthony at the end of her life and as one of the few people present at her death in 1906, at age 86. After nursing service during World War 1, Shanks – who had not been active in the women's suffrage movement – moved to Washington, D.C. to become an emergency nurse for employees of Herbert Hoover's Federal Food Administration. She lived one year longer than Anthony, dying in 1954.