votofemenino

It's really nice to see the genuine, relaxed smiles... it's easy to think of everything before 1960 as dour due to all the posed photos and lack of color film. So this is a nice reminder that people have always been regular folk.

I think the date written on the negative is 2/10/13

Although dates scratched on the Bain negatives may not always indicate the date the photograph was made (some negatives bear multiple dates), it looks as though February 1913 would be an accurate date for the photograph. This photographic print of Elizabeth Freeman en route to the parade is dated Feb. 17, 1913: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b01190 (I'm wondering if the woman smiling on the right in this photograph is, in fact, Elizabeth Freeman.) We'll add date information to the source description and reload it to Flickr. Some Bain photos--among them, the photo of Elizabeth Freeman en route--were included in an essay on the 1913 suffrage parade that highlights the variety of Library of Congress materials that shed light on the event: memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/aw01e/aw01e.html

I feel sorry for the poor lady on the right who seems to be wearing a commonly ill-fitting vulcanite denture. Actually you could not be too poor to even be able to get any denture. I am dental technician for 30 years and tend to notice these things. Sorry. The Brooklyn Museum just had a great exhibit on The Woman's Suffrage Movement that I went to see at the top floor.

FYI – It appears that, since bringing these photographs together as the excellent Women Striving Forward ... set, tags and notes have become disabled for photographs within that set.

I started an entry for her in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Craft Here is an article on her, but not this event: COL. IDA CRAFT GETS A PRIZE FOR COOKIES; Suffrage Hiker Only One of Many Good Cooks at Armory Fete. March 27, 1914, Friday Rosa Bennett was the heroine of the Cosmopolitan Fete of the Woman Suffrage Party at the Seventy-first Regiment Armory yesterday. Rosa was not present in person, for, being a mere hen, she was not invited, but an egg which she laid for the occasion was the feature at the country store, and was for sale for 10 cents, though eggs are now retailing at 40 cents a dozen. Source: New York Times

I guess she stayed home and baked cookies as well as fighting for women's rights.

The Bain/LOC photo shows Ida Craft as a leader and participant in the Women's Suffrage march from New York City to Washington, D.C., where they staged a rally on March 3, 1913, the day before the Inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson -- thus usurping a measure of the publicity that surrounded the historic event. Another Bain/LOC photo of Ms Craft at the 1913 March on Washington: Another shot of the hikers in Newark, N. J.:

Some articles on the march and parade in Washington, DC they were going to memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/aw01e/aw01e.html womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa010118a.htm This photo was probably taken on February 10, 1913 (the adjacent photo has that date) There are photos from the parade in DC including www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2615544645/ There was also a Pathe newsreel of this (Women descend from a double decker bus which carries a banner `Votes for women') ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/592106

I agree that this was February 10, 1913. A New York Times article from the 11th on page 11 "Suffragists Spread Oratoray and Tracts" describes the bus ride the previous day.

roketpad and Steve Rhodes: Thank you for the information and NYT article citation. It does appear that the date of Feb. 10, 1913 is correct. We will update the information and reload the description.

A similar photo ist depicted in New-York tribune., February 11, 1913, Page 12 with the names of the women on the bus: Left to right: Elizabeth Freeman, Evelyn McCullough, Mabelle Morgan, Frances Hedges, "Colonel" Ida Craft, Helen Hoy Greeley, "General" Rosalie Jones, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Rose Sanderson (1), Mrs. John Boldt, Hetty Wright Graham and Constance Leupp. (1) the correct name is Rose Sanderman

Rose Sanderman and Elisabeth Freeman: