[Suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C.]
Photograph
[Suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C.]
February 12, 1913
Gelatin silver print
Image: 4 5/8 × 6 11/16 in. (11.7 × 17 cm)
Gift of George Lazarnick
Inscriptions Numbered on recto (in image): 75401
Stamped on verso, R: Spooner & Wells, Inc. / Photographers, / Telephones 3472-3473 Columbus / 1931 Broadway, New York
Stamped on verso, R: Spooner & Wells, Inc. / Photographers, / Telephones 3472-3473 Columbus / 1931 Broadway, New York
TextOrganized by Rosalie Jones, known as “General Jones,” this suffrage hike covered 240 miles in seventeen days. The participants began in New York City, passed through New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, and joined the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, DC, on March 3, 1913. The march helped to galvanize support for the women’s suffrage movement, which culminated in the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Olive Schultz, the first female taxi driver in New York, is pictured here driving the car. Automobiles, a frequent presence in suffrage parades, became an emblem of women’s modernity, independence, and mobility in the early twentieth century.
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
