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An article about Mrs.Pankhurst in NYC: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F05E5D9123FE633A...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Feminist Art & Documentary, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

November 27, 1911 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E3DB1539E3...

Great photo! A tough woman in a sea of men.

Other Bain/LOC photos of visiting British Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, addressing (or attempting to address) a rowdy, noisy crowd of young males beside the Subtreasury Building on Wall Street, New York City, on November 27, 1911: With Mrs. Pankhurst in the open car are Hariot Stanton Blatch, U. S. Suffragist leader, and the venerable Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs. Pankhurst made a return visit to America in October, 1913. On that occasion, foolish U. S. immigration officials decided to bar entry to her, holding her at Ellis Island for deportation. This created a cause celebre, and required the personal intervention of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson to admit her for an already-scheduled lecture tour. The publicity helped suffragist fundraising enormously.

Umbrella reads "Parade starts at Wash. Sq. 5pm"

This is pretty amazing - a photo of women preparing to demonstrate in a parade, petitioning for the right to vote. Almost 100 years later we now have a woman running for the office of President.

The leading suffregette in NYC at this period was Fannie Garrison Villard who I suspect this is in the photo.

Frank G1: Thanks for your information. As you said, the woman second from the right could possibly be Frances Garrison Villard (1844-1928). I found one picture of her in 1887 here: www.rochester.lib.ny.us:2080/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?fullRecord+64... Do you have any images of her closer to the date of the Bain image for comparison?

These women and girls were possibly on their way to march in a parade that took place on Saturday, May 4, 1912 and started from Washington Square in New York City, according to the NY Times article, "Sufferage Army Out On Parade." According to the paper, "Promptly, at five o'clock . . . the order to start the parade came." Over a thousand men marched in the parade alongside the women.

www.elizabethfreeman.org/ Elisabeth Freeman (1876-1942), English-born American suffragist, also active in the anti-lynching and free speech movements.

She is such an inspirational person to us all.

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This image has been used in an Indicommons.org then-and-now post for International Women's Day. Thank you, Ms. Freeman!

Great photo.. a bit ironic.... having Freeman, as her surname....