suffragist

The pilot on the left is apparently Terah "T.T." Maroney (1880-1929). This picture appears with the caption: "Leaflet Drop Flight with Suffragette Lucy Burns, Seattle, May, 1916.
As fever built for the U. S. to enter World War I, Maroney became a pilot in the Washington Navy Militia.
"Lucy Burns, as the guest of Flight Lieutenant Maroney of the Naval Militia at Washington, flew to a height of fourteen hundred feet over Seattle, scattering leaflets as she went. When she started, Miss Burns carried a Congressional Union [for Woman Sufferage] banner, but the eighty-mile-an-hour gale soon tore it from her hand. When last seen, it reposed peacefully on the roof of a large Seattle mill." -- The Story of the Women's Party, by Inez Haynes Gillmore.
www.helenahistory.org/Terah-Maroney.htm

"Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Burns
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We are being a little cheated here by black and white photography: "Someone asked Lucy Burns, National vice-chairman of the Congressional Union, how everyone recognized her so readily. "It's her glorious red hair." put in Mrs. Percy Read, of Virginia. Yes. Miss Burns has wonderful hair, like burnished bronze. Also she is quick in wit, and has the delightful sense of humor that goes with her radiant locks. But to get that Federal amendment through that is Miss Burns' chief thought. "
Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) , May 01, 1916
oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1916-05-01/ed-1/se...

Art Siegel: Thanks for providing the very interesting backstory to this intriguing image. We will expand the description to reflect some of these details.

Also, this ran in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) , October 08, 1916 with the caption: "Lucy Burns, suffrage advocate who scattered literature from an aeroplane. Lucy Burns, the suffragist, took a unique way of aiding the cause In Seattle. She went up in the air with a flier in an aeroplane. The flight was entirely successful and it is likely much attention was attracted to the movement of votes for women." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-10-08/ed-1/se...

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

I think the back of the cart says, "GEORGE REED, Newton Abbot."
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Abbot
"Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. "

I don't think this is London. I don't see that cart traveling the 200 miles from Newton Abbot to London in the age of steam trains.

Devon Live suggests that the woman speaking is local Suffragist Edith Splatt campaigning in Newton Abbot in 1908. This photo actually appears on the Edith Splatt wikipedia page but the speaker is identified as Mary Gawthorpe which seems more likely. The lady with the hat is identified as Nellie Martel

Seuss.
I agree that the photo is much more likely to be in or close to Newton Abbot. I have nothing more wrt identification of the women except that it seems plausible that the woman seated is Nellie Martel, who was born in Cornwall and would probably have reason to travel to the West Country to visit relations as well as fellow suffragists.

swanq and Seuss., I agree it's not very likely the photo was taken in London, but since these are copy photos, Bain may have got them from a source in London, and not realized they were taken elsewhere. I'll suggest that we copy the text from the cart into the catalog record so Newton Abbot would come up in a search.

As for the identifications, the woman on the right does look a lot like Mary Gawthorpe. It harder to determine if the other woman is Edith Splatt. I'll talk with the catalogers, we may be able to put a note that says they are "possibly" Splatt and Gawthorpe.

In January 1908 there was a by-election for a seat in Newton Abbot that the Suffrage movement targeted. The WSPU opened offices there and many of the principal suffragists spoke on a regular basis. Sylvia Pankhurst's The Suffragist quoted the Daily Mail

Miss Mary Gawthorpe, who usually has no difficulty in
maintaining good-humoured relations with audiences of every class, was not only compelled to hear language from some of the Newton Abbot Liberal partisans that brought a flush to her face and tears into her eyes, but had to resist by
force the efforts of one man to mount the waggon from which she and several other ladies were speaking. And the most pitiful part of the business was that the language and the conduct seemed to be regarded by their perpetrators as engaging little gallantries, appropriate to be offered to a lady

page 183 ia800302.us.archive.org/6/items/suffragettehisto00pankuof...

Nellie Martell was also definitely in Newton Abbot. TheLondon Museum notes that she was an official organizer for the WSPU there and provides a good photo of her. Following the election she and Emmeline Pankhurst were assaulted by angry Liberal supporters.

LONDON, January 20. Riotous soenes followed the declaration of the Mid-Devon poll at Newton Abbot. A Liberal mob besieged the Constitutional Club for hours and broke every window. They assaulted Miss Pankhurst and Mrs Martell, the agitators for female suffrage, rolling them in the mud, for working against the Liberals.