[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with other suffrage pageant participants standing in background in front of the Treasury Building, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.]

Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913.

Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant." The pageant featured an allegory in which Columbia summoned Justice, Charity, Liberty, Pease, and Hope to review the new crusade of women.

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Reference copy in SPECIFIC SUBJ FILE - Women Politics & suffrage.

Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 33.

LC-B2-2501-14 deteriorated.

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