Equal Suffrage League Float, Thrift Day Parade, March 23, 1918
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia float depicting the Barge of State with Victory at the prow. <br /><br />This photograph was taken at the Thrift Day Parade held the afternoon of Saturday, March 23, 1918 in Richmond, VA. According to newspaper reports, over 20,000 people participated and over 100 floats were present. <br /><br /><span>This photograph was published in the April 20, 1918 issue <i>of The Woman Citizen</i>. 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. <br /><br /> 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” (<em>Woman Citizen</em>, 414).<br /><br />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. <br /><br />See the phototgraph <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/487" target="_blank" title=""We Fight for Democracy" photo" rel="noreferrer noopener">"We Fight for Democracy"</a> for a portrait of Uncle Sam, Columbia and Democracy who holds a ballot box.</span>
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
Photograph: M 9 Box 239 f242, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries<br /><br />Article: <em>Woman Citizen</em>, April 20, 1918, <a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21463133110001101" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Special Collections and Archives</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Photo: 1918 March 23
Article: 1918 April 20
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/national-woman-suffrage-association/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Woman Suffrage Association</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br />20,000 people march here in Thrift Parade. <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1918-03-24/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 24, 1918</a>, p. 1, 8. Chronicling America. Library of Congress<br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/166" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Woman Citizen</em>, April 20, 1920</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=War+Savings+Stamps" target="_blank" title="War Savings Stamps" rel="noreferrer noopener">War Savings Stamps</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Cholera Parade Float at Adventure Days, Richmond, Va.
<p>This parade float from Richmond’s Adventure Days (1929) served as a public health reminder of cholera, noting “Richmonders Died at the Average Age of 24 in 1872.”</p>
Gray, W. Palmer (photographer).
V.45.15.1024, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">W. Palmer Gray Collection</a>, The Valentine
1929
The Valentine
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