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Leader of the British suffragette movement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst

A true hero

Inverted date written on negative is 5/16/12 #2. Pankhurst was sentenced (in London) to nine months jail on May 22, 1912 "convicted of conspiracy and incitement to commit damage, the charges arising out of the suffragist window-smashing campaign." See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B02EEDA153CE633A... Photo apparently by Matzene of Chicago. She had been in Chicago in November 1909, according to NYT query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9400E6D81630E733A... She was there again in November 1913. Matzene appears to have registered a photograph in the same outfit hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b34110 for copyright as of October 25 1913. Another LoC photo -- hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b31732 -- is quite specifically a photo from 1909 copyrighted in 1913. So perhaps that's the case for the Matzene photos -- taken during the 1909 visit but copyrighted at the start of her 1913 visit. Pankhurst was held at Ellis Island for a day or two (Oct 18-20, 1913) with a deportation order issued, but later rescinded. Another picture by Matzene, dated as from the 1913 visit and in a different outfit is hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.275016. Pin/brooch and ribbon are probably of some significance.

We'll fix the date in the source data and reload the description. Thanks for the additional information!

Stencil I made from this image: Stenciled onto a t-shirt: Stenciled onto a backpack (with post-stencil embellishments):

That's an interesting collection of flags.

The title should read Eleanor Roosevelt meets MERRILL Denison.

The title is now fixed, but is the man shaking hands actually Merrill?

This photo depicts a man shaking hands with Mrs. Roosevelt. The man doesn't look like Merrill Dension. Muriel Denison was the invited guest...perhaps she took the photo?