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Henrietta Rodman was a feminist and teacher in New York City, vice president of the League for the Civic Service of Women, who protested the ban on married women teachers by marrying a friend in 1914, SOLELY to challenge the law (her husband's girlfriend was cool with this plan). Friend Floyd Dell noted wryly, “she couldn’t even do so conventional a thing as get married, without creating a terrific sensation.” She was suspended for more than a year. The clothing above was typical of her dress-reform style -- heavy sack-like tunics and boots (linen sacks and sandals in the summertime). Sources on Henrietta Rodman include: Julie C. Laible, “Henrietta Rodman and Other Modern Feminists: Redefining the New Professional Teacher,” Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 22(1995): 229-239; June Sochen, “Henrietta Rodman and the Feminist Alliance, 1914-1917,” Journal of Popular Culture 4(1)(Summer 1970): 57-65.

Thanks, pennylrichardsca, for the information and sources. 1914 seems to have been a big year for challenging the status quo in the New York City school system, given the information you and swanq also supplied about Mrs. Lora Wagner ( flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6358159445 ).

Indeed! I ran into Henrietta Rodman in an earlier project on the married-women-teachers ban, so I was excited to see her come up, and it was easy to find my old sources on her to share here. She's quite a character, plenty of news stories about her doings. And she knew a lot of the 1910s bohemian set in Greenwich Village, so she turns up on the margins of a lot of biographies and memoirs covering that era. If I get a chance, I'll gin up a wikipedia entry for her soon.

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Niall McAuley What was that? 2/3 minutes? You guys are losing your edge! :) Stand by for a toughie then (rolling sleeves up here at Library Towers)...

Wiki link on Belfast City Hall, completed in 1906.

I am pretty certain that is Belfast with what was Robinson Cleavers shop on the right hand side. And Donegall Place is the street in leading away.

Belfast City hall looking down Royal Avenue.

Admiral Hugh Rodman KCB (6 January 1859 – 7 June 1940) was an officer in the United States Navy who served during the Spanish–American War and World War I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Rodman

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www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hugh-rodman.htm

a clue as to why he was in the news in 1914 comes from www.czbrats.com/Builders/Rodman.htm "Returning to the United States, he was ordered to the Canal Zone, remained in that area from January, 1914 to October, 1915, first in an advisory capacity to General Goethals, the Army engineer-builder. As Superintendent of Transportation, Panama Canal, later redesignated Marine Superintendent, he wrote the rules and regulations applicable to vessels which use the Canal, and organized and operated it when the canal was first opened under General Goethal's authority." 1915 World almanac and book of facts books.google.com/books?id=-GQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133&l...; indicates that he was still Captain at the time. 1916 World almanac and book of facts books.google.com/books?id=MWY3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135&l... has him as Marine Superintendent (still Captain).

He was a captain when this photo was made. (The wiki article says he was promoted to RADM in 1917.)

Admiral Hugo Osterhaus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Osterhaus

A warship afficionado -- see www.navsource.org/archives/01/18c.htm -- believes this is on the USS Connecticut (BB-18)