noyes

Louise Thaden (left) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Thaden Vincent Bendix (center) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hugo_Bendix Blanche Noyes (right) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Noyes

Probably an engagement photo--Elizabeth Noyes married J. W. Thompson in Washington DC, according to a 4 December 1913 announcement in the New York Times.

See her photo in The Washington times., March 28, 1913, LAST AND HOME EDITION, Page 10, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1913-03-28/ed-....

But, as we all know, that isn't Frances Noyes.

And we know that Hedwig isn't dressed as Liberty, but as Columbia. Poor Hedwig Reicher, to lose her identity on the Internets! And she got such a splendid writeup in the New York Times in 1909! And on top of that she remains in the shadow her brother, Frank Reicher, whose IMDb page is so much longer than hers.

NYT article on February 7, 1913 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9907EED81E3AE633A25754C0A9649C946296D6CF ] says that Florence Fleming Noyes will wear sandals as Liberty -- however cold the weather. The article reassures the public that most will wear wool and therefore not be cold! Perhaps Florence Noyes is behind and to left of Hedwig Reicher. The article also suggests that the building is the U.S. Treasury.

LOC's history of the Woman Suffrage Procession (and Pageant) confirms that that is the Treasury building: www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html

Here she is guarding a train case I just restyled: