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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Esto es historia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, rocketpad featured this shot in one of his research projects on Flickr Commons, and we'd love to have this shot added to the group pool!

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This is probably February 1913. A group of women walked from Newark, NJ to join the Suffrage Pageant and Procession on March 3, 1914 before Woodrow Wilson Inauguration. See article about Craft and Jones getting angry with each other in New York Times (the NY Times made fun of the entire Pageant and Procession, so the tone is not surprising): http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9807E3D61E3AE633A25756C2A9649C946296D6CF

The Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage from New York City to Washington, D.C., was timed to arrive in the capital on March 3, 1913 -- the day before the inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson. The ladies (and gentleman supporters) managed to leverage a good dose of publicity from all the attention focused on inaugural events. Another Bain/LOC photo shows Ida Craft, a leader of the "hike" -- up close: Another shot of the hikers in Newark, N. J.:

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See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2368281179/ for another photo on same occasion. At left is Mrs. Borden Harriman (known as Daisy). From NYT, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E3DA123CE633A..., on August 21, 1912, it appears that the Women's National Wilson and Marshall Organization (supporting Woodrow Wilson for President and led by Daisy Harriman) kicked off its campaign efforts in Union Square on August 20. Among the speakers was Mrs. S.A. Vibbert, who was 75.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Mrs. Vibbirt, of the Woman's National Wilson and Marshall Organization, addressing a political rally in New York's Union Square, August 20, 1912: Daisy Harriman tosses the contents of a box of campaign buttons at the crowd: Boys in the Union Square crowd grab for the buttons, almost starting a riot:

It seems surprising to me that suffragettes would resort to arson. I wondered if the fire was really caused by reactionaries trying to make them look bad but apparently not. Were suffragettes more militant than I realized or were they more militant in Great Britain than the US? Here are a couple short articles in the New York Times dated March 11, 1913 which mention the fire. [1],[2] The date on this photo is currently set to 'some time in 1910. It should probably be set to March 11, 1913, or at least 'some time in 1913'.

Let’s hear it for Mrs. Pankhurst! SUFFRAGETTES TRY TO REACH THE KING 3/10/1910 New York Times … "Mrs. Pankhurst read the petition which it had been desired to present to the King. It declared that the militant movement for votes for women was endangering all forms of public and private property and had brought the administration and the law in to contempt." “All thinking persons”, it went on, “were eagerly and impatiently waiting to see whether the speech from the throne would contain a promise of legislation by which the suffragists’ violence and its consequences could be brought to append. “Votes for women” it continued, “Is the only cure for militancy. The revolting and futile policy of releasing hunger-strikers and re-arresting them, and again releasing them and re-arresting them, would simply bring discredit upon the Ministers responsible for it. Such treatment will never break the spirit of the women, though it will very likely bring about a tragedy, for although the women cannot be defeated they can be killed by persecution. If law and order are to be re-established in this realm, women must have votes.”

Good For Mrs Pankhurst! And, just in case someone is interested, the firm Suttons Seeds is still alive and well. Here is their history on their website www.suttons.co.uk/History.htm -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

The railway station has its own Wikipedia entry which mentions this incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunderton_railway_station

I never knew that suffragists resorted to terrorism. That's something the history books omit.