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Woman Citizen, April 20, 1918,

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VCU_Woman Citizen article April 20 1918 ESL Thrift Day float rsz.jpg
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VCU_Woman Citizen article April 20 1918 ESL Thrift Day float rsz.jpg
VCU_Woman Citizen April 20 1918 cover rsz.jpg
Title: Woman Citizen, April 20, 1918,
Date: 1918 April 20
Source: Woman Citizen, April 20, 1918, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Description: This photograph and article were published in the April 20, 1918 issue of The Woman Citizen. Adele Clark and Nora Houston, Richmond art teachers and leaders in the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESL), decorated the float which was sponsored by the Richmond league of the ESL.

 The “boat” was occupied by children and others in costumes representing “the extensive war service work being done by the League in conservation, Red Cross, Liberty Loan and food production” (Woman Citizen, 414).

The location of this image is the 100 block of the N. 4th St. directly across the street from the ESL headquarters. Holding the ESL banner are Ida Mae Thompson (1866–1947) and Edith Clark Cowles (1874-1954), both members of the ESL. Ralph Harvie Wormeley is dressed as Uncle Sam, with Adeline Harmon Cowles as Columbia, beside him. In the seat in front of them is Martha Jobson as Democracy.  

See the phototgraph "We Fight for Democracy" for a portrait of Uncle Sam, Columbia and Democracy who holds a ballot box.
Citation:
“Woman Citizen, April 20, 1918,,” VCU Libraries Gallery, accessed April 19, 2024, https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/110958.