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Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883-1978) was a wealthy Oyster Bay socialite and suffragist known as "General Jones"--she also had a law degree, and late in life was infamous for keeping many goats on her estate. www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-past1215,0,6... Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye was originally from Chicago, and one-time president of the Milwaukee Women's Peace Society. She was Columbia University educated, and legislative chair of the Women's Peace Society in NYC. She was noted for "urging all women to remain unmarried or to refuse to bear children until some efficient means should be devised to secure the world against the devastation of war." Jessie Stubbs died by suicide in 1921. While grieving her death, husband Benton Mackaye began formulating the idea that became the Appalachian Trail. www.erikness.com/Stories/bentonmackaye.html

I started Wikipedia entries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Hardy_Stubbs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_Jones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Craft

Other Bain/LOC photos of the ladies on the roof of Suffrage headquarters:

The poster on the banner is for a mass meeting at the opera house, Brooklyn Academy of Music, January 9th, featuring Rev. Anna Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chatman Catt, and Max Eastman.

Both authored by me: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_Jones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Craft

Other Bain/LOC photos of the ladies on the roof of Suffrage headquarters:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Esto es historia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, rocketpad featured this shot in one of his research projects on Flickr Commons, and we'd love to have this shot added to the group pool!

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This is probably February 1913. A group of women walked from Newark, NJ to join the Suffrage Pageant and Procession on March 3, 1914 before Woodrow Wilson Inauguration. See article about Craft and Jones getting angry with each other in New York Times (the NY Times made fun of the entire Pageant and Procession, so the tone is not surprising): http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9807E3D61E3AE633A25756C2A9649C946296D6CF

The Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage from New York City to Washington, D.C., was timed to arrive in the capital on March 3, 1913 -- the day before the inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson. The ladies (and gentleman supporters) managed to leverage a good dose of publicity from all the attention focused on inaugural events. Another Bain/LOC photo shows Ida Craft, a leader of the "hike" -- up close: Another shot of the hikers in Newark, N. J.: