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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.

Shorpy has a beautifully restored panorama of what appears to be the same location, only the camera is on the shore. This is Holland-America Line's dock at Hoboken, N.J., with North German Lloyd's (NDL) facilities on the left. www.shorpy.com/node/10113 (Click on thumbnail to view large panorama) More info on SS Rotterdam (IV), built 1908 www.halpostcards.com/unofficial/rot4.html

I (and my parents and sister) sailed from that very same dock, on the Holland-America Line's MAASDAM, in August, 1956. After a nine-day voyage, we landed in ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands.

Women's Peace Party: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Peace_Party 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 Alice Thacher Post (1853-1947), editor, active with the Women's Peace Party, second wife of Louis Freeland Post (his papers are in the LOC): memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/ed_pub.html

Leaving New York aboard the Noordam in April, 1915.

Thanks for the full names and additional information. We will update the record.

A picture very similar to this is on page one of the New York Evening World, April 13, 1915. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1915-04-13/ed-...