pacifist

Presumably en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Schnelle "Fanny Schnelle (30 November 1866 – 31 January 1953) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Left Party."

The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]), 18 May 1909. Page 3, column 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1909-05-18/ed-... lists Fannie Schnelle as one of five Scandinavian women arriving in New York en route to the International Suffragists Congress in Toronto. The [New York] sun., December 26, 1915, page 1, col 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-12-26/ed-... names Mrs. Fanny Schnelle, a member of the town concil of Bergen as a delegate to a neutral conference associated with Henry Ford's peace mission to Europe. digitalarkivet.no/sab/bergensposten2/gymnast.htm has a photo of a Fanny Schnelle (also born in 1866) who appears to have been a gymnast and could easily be the same woman (rather younger).

From totaltreningsglede.blogg.no/1357759505_idrettshistorie.html Google Translate produces: "One can see that the trend in politics and sport to some extent with each other and this is illustrated by Fanny Schnelle, director of a women's party, became the first woman elected to the Left Party in 1902. " This seems to confirm that the gymnast and the politician are one and the same.

Mrs. Howe appears to be Margaret Vale Howe (b. 1878) also seen here (different event): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Vale Mrs. Elmer Black was Madeleine Powell Black, chair of the American Peace and Arbitration League, frequently attending peace events at the international level; author of "Civilize the Nations" (1911). catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009009125 Mrs. Walston Brown was Eva Robert Ingersoll Brown (b. 1863); there's a photo of her younger, here: www.rgimuseum.org/ItemView.php?ItemID=101&ViewID=15 Mrs. Marion Burritt was actually Miss Marion T. Burritt, a Smith College graduate who was involved in the New York Peace Society.

Other Bain/LOC photos of the Woman's Peace Parade, 8/29/14:

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for providing us with the full names for some of the women shown in this picture. We'll include some of this information next time we update.

Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosika_Schwimmer