Woman Suffrage parade postcard Inez Milholland, Herald

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Wonderful postcard depicting a woman with a star headdress on a horse in front of a crowd. Beneath her picture is the caption "Miss Inez Milholland, Herald." The postcard was published by Leet Bros., Wash. D.C., which leads me to conclude that this was from her serving as Herald in the Women's Suffrage parade on the eve of Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in March 1913, rather than from her serving as Herald in a similar New York City march. Overall very good to excellent condition, with a very slight crease about two-thirds of the way down the left side, going into the card about 1" or so. Light wear on the corners as seen in the photos. According to the National Women's History Museum website: Inez Milholland Boissevain, labor lawyer, feminist, and suffragist, joined Harriot Stanton Blatch's Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later the Women's Political Union) and lectured, arranged rallies, and testified at hearings. A pacifist in World War I, Inez became a war correspondent in Italy. Her beauty and social standing were an asset to the movement, and she gained fame as the "Suffrage Herald," riding a horse at the head of two vast suffrage marches, one down New York's 5th Avenue, the other in Washington, D. C. in 1913. She was so striking a figure that she became a suffrage symbol, part of the movement's enduring imagery. She read more

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