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Margaret Wycherly as "Woman" (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wycherly

• swanq said:

  A 1914 picture of Wycherly is at digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/...

• swanq said:

  New-York tribune., July 06, 1915, Page 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-07-06/ed-... has a picture probably taken at the same time. Margaret Wycherly read an "Appeal to Liberty" at the Statue of Liberty as part of a demonstration in favor of women suffrage.

• swanq said:

  For more on this image, see www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2713207?uid=3739704 Although a subscription is needed to see the full article, it is the first paragraph that is about this image as a symbol.

• Art Siegel said:

  Part of the July 5, 1915 Women's Suffrage activities:
  
  The New York Times account says she is dressed as "Goddess of Liberty", and here she's obviously copying the pose of the Statue of Liberty.