Inez Milholland Pageant Poster, 1924
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content: National Woman's Party
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content: Paul, Alice
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content: Milholland, Inez
notes: label: Description
content: Poster from a 1924 pageant, “Forward into Light” about the life of Inez Milholland
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content: A labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, public speaker, social activist, and New York society figure, Inez Milholland was the idealized image of a suffragist. Believing that people would respond to the parade’s symbolism and spectacle, she rode as its herald. Her strong and feminine figure symbolically led the way to a brighter future for women. Milholland suffered from pernicious anemia, she had been warned by doctors that constant vigorous campaigning would be dangerous to her health but disregarded their concerns to further promote the cause. She collapsed and died in 1916 while traveling to promote woman suffrage. She became the martyred heroine of the movement, forever remembered as the 1913 parade’s inspiring herald.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
label: subject association
content: Voting Rights
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content: Equal Rights Amendment
label: general subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alice Paul Centennial Foundation Inc
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0165.115
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content: 1987.0165.115
label: accession number
content: 1987.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: purple (overall color)
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content: gold (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm