![President receives delegates to Women's Patriotic Conference. Delegates of the Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, representing 38 organizations, in session ar D.A.R. Hall in Washington, were received by President Coolidge today. In the center of the photograph, left to right: Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., President Coolidge; and Mrs. Alfred J. Borsseau [White House, Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjkvMDEvMDEvcHJlc2lkZW50LXJlY2VpdmVzLWRlbGVnYXRlcy10by13b21lbnMtcGF0cmlvdGljLWNvbmZlcmVuY2UtZGVsZWdhdGVzLW9mLXRoZS02NDAuanBn/40/31/webp "President receives delegates to Women's Patriotic Conference. Delegates of the Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, representing 38 organizations, in session ar D.A.R. Hall in Washington, were received by President Coolidge today. In the center of the photograph, left to right: Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., President Coolidge; and Mrs. Alfred J. Borsseau [White House, Washington, D.C.]")
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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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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Date
01/01/1914
Contributors
Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain
