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August, 1913: Before the Suffragette Caravan left New York for Boston, pulled by a balky horse that the ladies had named "Asquith," (after the British prime minister, who also had been balky in offering support to the cause of woman suffrage) the participants (three British suffragettes and Ida Craft, an American Salvation Army colonel, with tambourine) released several homing pigeons, whose flight back to Boston was supposed to precede and herald their own arrival in that city. Here is a contemporary newspaper clipping about the event: www.elizabethfreeman.org/PDF/suffrage/bostonPigeons_big.pdf Sign on wagon front says: BUY - ONLY - 5c WEEKLY THE - WOMEN'S - JOURNAL ALL - THE - LATEST - NEWS ON WOMAN'S - SUFFRAGE ______________________ Signs on side of wagon front: VOTES FOR WOMEN THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL -------- GIVE - WOMEN THE VOTE - QUICK

Wonderful.

Wystan: Thanks for linking to the information about this event. We will add to the description when we update.

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These photos are incredible. What is more incredible is that women could not vote.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the indefatigable suffragist leader, "General" Rosalie Jones, on the march from NYC to Albany, New York [January 1, 1914]: More Bain/LOC photos from the NYC-Albany suffragists' march:

That's Rosalie Jones, Ida Craft, and Jessie Stubbs: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2478433644/

Thanks! Can you tell if this is the Albany (1912) or Washington suffrage hike?

This is getting ready for the Washington hike, in 1913. More Bain/LOC photos of the ladies on the roof: