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"President Woodrow Wilson appointed Bainbridge Colby as his third Secretary of State on March 23, 1920. He was confirmed by the Senate and entered into duty the same day. Colby served until the end of the Wilson administration, leaving office on March 4, 1921."
history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/colby-bainbridge

"Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a political progressive, a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Colby was a Republican until he helped co-found the National Progressive Party in 1912; he ran for multiple offices as a member of that party, but always lost."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainbridge_Colby

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Thanks for the information, Art Siegel! We will include some of these details when we update the record.

What the hell do you do at a Moose convention - let alone a Bull Moose convention? Seriously, does anyone know? ( an ignorant Australian)

Hi Catmandu Google Bull Moose convention and your question will be answered.

Thanks wareninmana, I learnt a lot! The quote below explains why there are so many women in the photo: "It may seem strange or ironic that women played such an important role in a party nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party," but the Progressive or Bull Moose Party welcomed women into leadership positions as no major party had before. The high status of women in the Progressive Party reflected the party's strong advocacy of women's suffrage and women's rights, and the emphasis that Theodore Roosevelt, the party's presidential candidate in 1912, gave to women's issues. Up to this time, no male of Theodore Roosevelt's prominence and popularity had endorsed women's suffrage, and in 1912 neither the Republican candidate, President William Howard Taft, running for reelection, or Democrat Woodrow Wilson, endorsed women's suffrage on the national level. In 1912 women had the vote in several Western states, but in no state east of the Mississippi River." www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/bullmoose.htm

By the way, it was New Zealand who first gave women the vote in the previous century, followed by my home state, South Australia. See below: "New Zealand in 1893 is considered the first major nation to give all women the right to vote, however, some sub-national entities had earlier given certain women voting rights." "1894 South Australia grants universal suffrage, extending the franchise to all women (property-owners could vote in local elections from 1861), the first in Australia to do so. Women are also granted the right to stand for parliament, making South Australia the first in the world to do so." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women's_suffrage

que lindos chapeus ! (that beautiful hats! )

I'm thinking this is the Delegation from Pennsylvania at a republican convention in Chicago. Could be 1912, 1916, or 1920. I doubt it's 1908.

You're probably right. There are other pix in this set of the dem convention in Balto. and the Progressive/Bull Moose in Syracuse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Republican_National_Convention

Okay, there is another photo at the following link: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163140655/in/s... Is it possible that it is the Oklahoma Delegation and Penn Del. were promenading? These are the same two women in both photos, wearing the same outfits.

Good catch! The two women here and two of the men behind them are in the other picture as well. Chances are the Oklahomans are the ones on the left in the other picture, with the signs hanging from their jackets.

Could this photo and the other one have been taken at the Progressive Party ("Bull Moose") convention at the Coliseum in Chicago, in August, 1912? That convention was held in the same venue as the Republican Convention had been, in June. The date inscribed on the negative, in the lower right corner, appears to start with an "8" -- for August. A quarter of the delegates to the Progressives' convention were women (who were still denied the vote), and the convention nominated former President Theodore Roosevelt for President, and Governor Hiram Johnson of California for Vice President.