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Henrietta Rodman was a feminist and teacher in New York City, vice president of the League for the Civic Service of Women, who protested the ban on married women teachers by marrying a friend in 1914, SOLELY to challenge the law (her husband's girlfriend was cool with this plan). Friend Floyd Dell noted wryly, “she couldn’t even do so conventional a thing as get married, without creating a terrific sensation.” She was suspended for more than a year. The clothing above was typical of her dress-reform style -- heavy sack-like tunics and boots (linen sacks and sandals in the summertime). Sources on Henrietta Rodman include: Julie C. Laible, “Henrietta Rodman and Other Modern Feminists: Redefining the New Professional Teacher,” Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 22(1995): 229-239; June Sochen, “Henrietta Rodman and the Feminist Alliance, 1914-1917,” Journal of Popular Culture 4(1)(Summer 1970): 57-65.

Thanks, pennylrichardsca, for the information and sources. 1914 seems to have been a big year for challenging the status quo in the New York City school system, given the information you and swanq also supplied about Mrs. Lora Wagner ( flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6358159445 ).

Indeed! I ran into Henrietta Rodman in an earlier project on the married-women-teachers ban, so I was excited to see her come up, and it was easy to find my old sources on her to share here. She's quite a character, plenty of news stories about her doings. And she knew a lot of the 1910s bohemian set in Greenwich Village, so she turns up on the margins of a lot of biographies and memoirs covering that era. If I get a chance, I'll gin up a wikipedia entry for her soon.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence(1867-1954), English feminist and peace activist: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wpethick.htm Jane Addams(1860-1935), first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams Annie E. Molloy was president of the Boston Telephone Operators' Union, selected to be a delegate to the Hague conference as a representative of working women. I think I can pick out a few more faces using the Swarthmore's numbered portrait of the Hague conference delegates, and this very handy set of passport photos of the delegates: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/puzzlemaster/sets/72157610810878274/] Lillian Kohlhamer of Chicago (same hat in both photos); her passport photo (in the same hat): Mary Heaton Vorse of New York City; her passport photo:

Brief information about the first Motor Ship or Steam Ship Noordam (1901-1928) can be found at Noordam history:

From August to October 1914, the early months of World War I, she made a few commercial voyages, but after striking a mine in the North Sea on 17 October, Noordam spent the winter in Rotterdam. She returned to service 26 March 1915, one of the few liners to maintain regular service from the continent during the war. She struck another mine, though, off Terschelling Bank in August 1917 and did not return to service; instead, she spent the rest of the war in layup at Rotterdam.

Link to Swarthmore numbered portrait referenced by Pennylrichardsca: www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/wilpfexhibit/19... More on Mary Heaton Vorse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Heaton_Vorse LOC, please note, delegate is Annie E. Molloy, not Anna Molloy (negative) or Anita Molloy (LOC transcription).

pennylrichardsca and artolog: thank you for the background information and correct name. We will update the record.

I believe no 12 is Lilian Lenton

Wikimedia and NPG say who is who.
Crazily the NPG claim copyright on this image - very silly.
Well done National Archives

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Lenton
great article`

Feminists in the old days so classy