We Fight For Democracy, 1918 [Uncle Sam, Columbia, and Democracy]

We Fight For Democracy, 1918 [Uncle Sam, Columbia, and Democracy]

Studio portrait of costumed figures before a sign saying "We Fight For Democracy." This photograph was taken during World War I.  

Ralph Harvie Wormley as Uncle Sam; Adeline Harmon Cowles as Columbia, Martha Jobson, as Democracy holding a ballot box. 

These young people rode in the Equal Suffrage League float during the Thrift Day Parade in Richmond, Va., March 23, 1918.

A Foster studio photo.

Foster Studio.

M 9 Box 239, 242, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

1918

Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

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Learn more: 
National Woman Suffrage Association, Social Welfare History Project
Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project
Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 24, 1918, Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia
Woman Citizen, April 20, 1920, Social Welfare History Image Portal 
War Savings Stamps, Social Welfare History Image Portal