Inez Milholland
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Title
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Inez Milholland
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Description
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Visual description: American suffragist, Inez Milholland, is shown riding a horse, as she did in the 1913 suffrage parade. She holds a banner that reads "FORWARD into LIGHT". Across the top of the poster white text reads "Inez Milholland Boissevan" and at the bottom of the poster "who died for the freedom of women". The horse is all white, with gold tackle. Milholland is wearing a silky white dress that flows over the side of the horse, and she and the horse are inside a purple circle. There are gold details all throughout the poster, and the background is gold. The use of white, purple, and gold represent the suffrage movement. She is wearing a helmet with a star on it. She looks forward into the horizon in a hopeful way.
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Additional information: Inez Milholland led the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, DC, wearing an outfit similar to that shown in the poster. The clothing she wore was a tribute to Joan of Arc, who was a heroine of the suffrage movement. Milholland became an icon for the suffrage movement in part because she was seen as a martyr for the cause. Despite ill health, Milholland continued campaigning for women's right to vote. She had pernicious anemia, which caused her to collapse while giving a suffrage speech in California and die shortly after at the young age of 30.
Sources: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Creativity-and-Persistence-08.13.20.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/design/inez-milholland-suffragist.html
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Identifier
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A poster depicting women's suffrage leader Inez Milholland riding a white horse as she did in the 1913 suffrage parade.
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Date
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1917
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Publisher
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National Woman’s Party
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Source
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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute MC399-273af-1
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Rights
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https://library.harvard.edu/privacy-terms-use-copyright-information#visuals
