ZFC Item Section - US // Woman's Suffrage Pennant / Wash. DC

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Exhibition Copy	University of California - Santa Cruz Board of Councilors Meeting, Rare Flags Exhibit Santa Cruz, CA 7 June 2012 Santa Cruz, CA, June 7, 2012: The Zaricor Flag Collection exhibited 34 flags and artifacts at the University of California Santa Cruz Campus for the Board of Councilors Meeting. Woman Suffrage Parade Pennant Date: 1913 Media: Cotton gauze netting imprinted with paint. Comment: This cotton gauze pennant with a decorative imprint was created for the Woman Suffrage Parade held on 3 March 1913, one day prior to the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. The suffragette Alice Paul and the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized a march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue. The parade was huge for its day, with over 5,000 participants that included four mounted units, nine bands, and over twenty floats. Among the marchers were such luminaries as Inez Milholland, Helen Keller, and Nellie Bly. This important march attracted much attention for both the cause, suffrage for women, and the mistreatment of the marchers by both onlookers and the police. This attention did much to further the cause of woman suffrage in the United States as the journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran writing under her pen name, Nellie Bly, championed the suffragette cause in her article "Suffragists are Men's Superiors." Decorative pennants like this are extremely rare since they were seldom preserved. This pennant was imprinted on gauze with a stylized capitol dome, a stylized American eagle, "1913", the location, Washington D.C., and the slogan "Votes for Women." Provenance: Acquired in 2008 by the Zaricor Flag Collection (ZFC3238) at auction, Heritage Auction Inc., Dallas, Texas. www.FlagCollection.com

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Exhibition Copy

University of California - Santa Cruz
Board of Councilors Meeting, Rare Flags Exhibit
Santa Cruz, CA
7 June 2012

Santa Cruz, CA, June 7, 2012: The Zaricor Flag Collection exhibited 34 flags and artifacts at the University of California Santa Cruz Campus for the Board of Councilors Meeting.

Woman Suffrage
Parade Pennant

Date: 1913

Media: Cotton gauze netting imprinted with paint.

Comment: This cotton gauze pennant with a decorative imprint was created
for the Woman Suffrage Parade held on 3 March 1913, one day prior to the
inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. The suffragette Alice Paul and
the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized a march down
Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue. The parade was huge for its day, with
over 5,000 participants that included four mounted units, nine bands, and over
twenty floats. Among the marchers were such luminaries as Inez Milholland,
Helen Keller, and Nellie Bly.
This important march attracted much attention for both the cause, suffrage
for women, and the mistreatment of the marchers by both onlookers and the
police. This attention did much to further the cause of woman suffrage in the
United States as the journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran writing under her pen
name, Nellie Bly, championed the suffragette cause in her article "Suffragists are
Men's Superiors."
Decorative pennants like this are extremely rare since they were seldom
preserved. This pennant was imprinted on gauze with a stylized capitol dome, a
stylized American eagle, "1913", the location, Washington D.C., and the slogan
"Votes for Women."

Provenance: Acquired in 2008 by the Zaricor Flag Collection (ZFC3238) at
auction, Heritage Auction Inc., Dallas, Texas.
www.FlagCollection.com