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This is the Woman Suffrage Parade, March 3, 1913, in Washington, DC, held the day before the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson Marching for the Vote: Remembering the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 -- "The Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, one of the most dramatic public events in the 82-year struggle of American women to gain the vote" (Guide from the Library of Congress)

Thank you Elizabeth! We'll fix the date in the source data and reload the description.

My great aunt , K. Pearl Woodlief marched in this parade. Being the only NC delegate, she carried the heavy NC flag throughout the parade. She skipped work from the Durham, NC law firm where she was employed and when she telegraphed them on Monday morning, she was surprised to gain the support of the male lawyers of her firm. She later worked with Alice Paul and others to establish a local chapter in NC and I still possess many of the letters she wrote to NC congressmen asking for their support. She was born in Kittrell, NC in 1888.

@eitherorr1 -- I hope you will consider giving your aunt's letters to the Library of Congress, or to an archive in North Carolina . . . .

I wonder if the Bain negative numbers could be used to put these pictures in sequential order. There is also this map of the order of marchers in the parade: www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.02946/

Another shot, panned slightly to the left.

roketpad: Thanks for your information. Will will update the photo information and reload the description.

Título: Masa de espectadores observando una marcha sufragista en la Avenida Penn

I wonder if this picture could have been taken at the very beginning or end of the parade. The street cars are running, and there seems to be a concentration of action at the front of the frame, where men are talking with women and there seem to be several police. . . . people in the crowd are facing in many different directions, which is confusing. Perhaps the man is dispensing sashes for marchers to wear?

Looking east down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury - the photographer would have been standing about here:

stunning image

The caption on the photo says "3/3/13", the night before Wilson's first inauguration, 4 March 1913.

I absolutely love it.