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Lucy burns at Seattle (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  The pilot on the left is apparently Terah "T.T." Maroney (1880-1929). This picture appears with the caption: "Leaflet Drop Flight with Suffragette Lucy Burns, Seattle, May, 1916.
  As fever built for the U. S. to enter World War I, Maroney became a pilot in the Washington Navy Militia.
  "Lucy Burns, as the guest of Flight Lieutenant Maroney of the Naval Militia at Washington, flew to a height of fourteen hundred feet over Seattle, scattering leaflets as she went. When she started, Miss Burns carried a Congressional Union [for Woman Sufferage] banner, but the eighty-mile-an-hour gale soon tore it from her hand. When last seen, it reposed peacefully on the roof of a large Seattle mill." -- The Story of the Women's Party, by Inez Haynes Gillmore.
  www.helenahistory.org/Terah-Maroney.htm
  
  "Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party."
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Burns
  See also
  
  We are being a little cheated here by black and white photography: "Someone asked Lucy Burns, National vice-chairman of the Congressional Union, how everyone recognized her so readily. "It's her glorious red hair." put in Mrs. Percy Read, of Virginia. Yes. Miss Burns has wonderful hair, like burnished bronze. Also she is quick in wit, and has the delightful sense of humor that goes with her radiant locks. But to get that Federal amendment through that is Miss Burns' chief thought. "
  Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) , May 01, 1916
  oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1916-05-01/ed-1/se...

• Kristi (LOC P&P) said:

  Art Siegel: Thanks for providing the very interesting backstory to this intriguing image. We will expand the description to reflect some of these details.

• Art Siegel said:

  Also, this ran in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) , October 08, 1916 with the caption: "Lucy Burns, suffrage advocate who scattered literature from an aeroplane. Lucy Burns, the suffragist, took a unique way of aiding the cause In Seattle. She went up in the air with a flier in an aeroplane. The flight was entirely successful and it is likely much attention was attracted to the movement of votes for women." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-10-08/ed-1/se...