Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing Ethel Smyth's Hymn of the Women before entering the Rotunda to deliver the petitions.

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Item Title

Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing Ethel Smyth's Hymn of the Women before entering the Rotunda to deliver the petitions.

Author/Creator

Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Created/Published

1914 May 9

Notes

Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists who took part in Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession of May 9, 1914, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol (those in front line, white dresses with sashes, singing "The Woman's March"), advocating a federal amendment securing women's right to vote.
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Subjects

United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920
Petitions
Processions
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Suffrage Parade, May 9, 1914

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

mnwp 160079
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160079