hike

It looks to me like part of that old tradition of the office picnic, which I remember as a child. Though the ones I remember usually involved some sort of organised sport (like a cricket match), which required more open ground. Aha, I was right. The mystery hike has been office organised (F.J Palmer & Sons Pty Ltd, and the 'sport' is the mystery hike.... )

I love it that there is only one car in the middle. It looks like they all squeezed in.

I think it says "Votes for Women." Anyone else?

enlarge the pic -- it does say votes for women www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html On Feb. 12, with cameras clicking, 16 "suffrage pilgrims" left New York City to walk to Washington for the parade. Many other people joined the original hikers at various stages, and the New York State Woman Suffrage Association's journal crowed that "no propaganda work undertaken by the State Association and Party has ever achieved such publicity." One of the New York group, Elizabeth Freeman, dressed as a gypsy and drove a yellow, horse-drawn wagon decorated with Votes for Women symbols and filled with pro-suffrage literature, a sure way to attract publicity. Two weeks after the procession five New York suffragists, including Elizabeth Freeman, reported to the Bronx motion picture studio of the Thomas A. Edison Co. to make a talking picture known as a Kinetophone, which included a cylinder recording of one-minute speeches by each of the women. This film with synchronized sound was shown in vaudeville houses where it was "hooted, jeered and hissed" by audiences.

I hope these women kept an eye on where they were hiking, because it looks like this was taken on the roof of a building without any side rails.

undeadsinatra: Thanks for sharing the article about this hike from the Library of Congress Information Bulletin. In an effort to make these related photographs easier to locate, we are going to add the more accurate year and expand the title slightly in the source data and then reload the description in Flickr.

@lifeasdaddy: definitely a staged shot! Everyone's looking at the camera with the same foot extended. :)

www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html On Feb. 12, with cameras clicking, 16 "suffrage pilgrims" left New York City to walk to Washington for the parade. Many other people joined the original hikers at various stages, and the New York State Woman Suffrage Association's journal crowed that "no propaganda work undertaken by the State Association and Party has ever achieved such publicity." One of the New York group, Elizabeth Freeman, dressed as a gypsy and drove a yellow, horse-drawn wagon decorated with Votes for Women symbols and filled with pro-suffrage literature, a sure way to attract publicity. Two weeks after the procession five New York suffragists, including Elizabeth Freeman, reported to the Bronx motion picture studio of the Thomas A. Edison Co. to make a talking picture known as a Kinetophone, which included a cylinder recording of one-minute speeches by each of the women. This film with synchronized sound was shown in vaudeville houses where it was "hooted, jeered and hissed" by audiences.

undeadsinatra: Thanks for sharing the article about this hike from the Library of Congress Information Bulletin. In an effort to make these related photographs easier to locate, we are going to add the more accurate year and expand the title slightly in the source data and then reload the description in Flickr.