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BEALS, JESSIE TARBOX
Album with 41 mounted photographs of the 1911 Suffrage Parade in New York City. Silver prints, 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), with Beals's embossed studio imprint on mount recto and numeric notations on mount verso. Oblong 4to, wrappers, front cover chipped and torn, contents disassembled; ties. 1911
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Notes: from the collection of alice paul, a co-founder of the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage (later known as the National Woman's Party), and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, to the family of the consignor. (Paul was formerly active in England with the Pankhurst sisters.)
The women's suffrage parade took place on May 6, 1911. Protestors assembled near Fifth Avenue and 59th Street marching down Fifth Avenue past Madison Square Park to their final destination, Union Square Park, where the women rallied amidst many bowler-hatted male spectators. Well-dressed participants of all ages, some wheeling baby carriages others wearing mortarboards and gowns, may be seen holding banners reading "Artists," "Lawyers," "Architects," "Journalists," "Business Women," "Sculptors," "Musicians," "Painters," along with agit-prop placards proclaiming: "We Demand Justice" or "New York State Denies the Vote to Criminals, Idiots, and Women!" Pictured among the throngs of protestors are Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and Inez Molland.
Beals, who left her husband to pursue a career as a photographer, took up residence in New York City's Bohemian West Village community. Apparently an early supporter of the suffrage movement, she developed a reputation as one of the first female photojournalists, pursuing an interest in fine art photography independently. The New-York Historical Society has four hundred eighteen photos in its Beals collection, but only five are related to women's suffrage.
with--Group of 7 photographs of figures associated with the movement, including one of Alice Paul; 2 depicting Anita Pollitzer (secretary of the Woman's Party), a copy photograph of Susan B. Anthony and Eliz. Cady Stanton, and others, who are unidentified; several with hand stamps and notations on verso.
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