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Mrs. Margaret Howe holds the emblem representing the Oregon delegation at a women's suffrage parade in 1913 in Washington DC. (Note the NA banner hanging on the building. NA was the National American Women's Suffrage Association). At this march/ parade, the women held banners representing states that already had women's suffrage. Oregon women obtained the right to vote in 1912.

Full coverage of Woman Suffrage Day activities in New York City, See stories in The New York Times, May 3, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50D1EF9355D13...

Other Bain/LOC photos of New York women involved in suffrage day activities on May 2, 1914:

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.