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Women's Suffrage Pennant from the Woman Suffrage Procession Washington, D.C., March 3,1913. ...
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Women's Suffrage Pennant from the Woman Suffrage Procession Washington, D.C., March 3,1913. This 10" X 26" cotton gauze pennant with a decorative imprint was created for the Woman Suffrage Procession held on 3 March 1913, one day prior to the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. It was the first large, organized march on Washington for women's suffrage. They marched in a spirit of protest against the political organization of society, which excluded women. Suffragette Alice Paul and the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized the Procession to march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue. The parade was huge for its day, with over 5,000 participants that included four mounted units, nine bands, and over twenty floats was seen by an estimated 250,000 bystanders. Among the marchers were such luminaries as Inez Milholland, Helen Keller, and Nellie Bly.This important march, intentionally planned to precede Wilson's Inaugural parade for maximum press coverage, attracted much attention for both the cause, suffrage
for women, and the mistreatment of the marchers by both onlookers and the police. This attention did much to further the cause of woman suffrage in the United States as the journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran writing under her pen name, Nellie Bly, championed the suffragette cause in her article "Suffragists are Men's Superiors."
Utilitarian decorative pennants like this are extremely rare since they were seldom preserved. This pennant was imprinted in paint onto cotton gauze with a stylized capitol dome American eagle, "1913", the location, Washington D.C., and the slogan "Votes for Women."
Over the years Heritage has presented perhaps more Suffrage Movement textile items than any other auction venue. However, we have never offered this distinctive variety, nor can we recall seeing another example.
Condition: thread wear. From the Zaricor Flag Collection.
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2023 November 13 - 14 Americana & Political Signature Auction Signature® Auction #6276 (go to Auction Home page)
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