Here’s an excellent photo capturing history in Washington. This is a parade of suffragettes but I can’t quite make out where they are. If you know where this is, or think you recognize the building in the foreground or background, add your comments below.
Women on horseback in suffrage parade, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1914 (Library of Congress)
UPDATE: Found another great suffrage photo on Shorpy. This one was from February 1913.
February 1913. “Woman suffrage — hikers arriving in Washington from New York.” Today marks the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. Over the next few days we’ll post some more suffrage photos. Harris & Ewing glass negative. (Shorpy)
No, that building in the background isn’t the Willard Hotel. The picture was shot from the front of the Willard Hotel, in fact. Notice that the brick building across the street in the picture above has a vertical sign saying “Miller’s”? That same sign is found on the building just across the street from the Willard in the image bredalthon cites. It’s in the block now occupied by the J.W. Marriott and National Theater. The street going off to the left is 14th Street, with E Street just off center and Pennsylvania Avenue going off toward the right. The parade seems to be coming up Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Avenue did mark the main route of the May 9 suffragists parade route. The massive march of more than 5,000 started on Pennsylvania Avenue by the White House, (around Executive Avenue east, between Madison and Jackson Place) went east on Pennsylvania to 15th, south on 15th back to Pennsylvania, east and over to First Street, NW.
From there, North on first to B Street, NW, east on B to First to enter the Capitol Grounds. [WaPo May 9, 1914]
There’s a chance the building in the background is a view of the Treasury Building which stood east of the Executive Mansion.
See Baist’s Real Estate atlas of surveys of Washington, 1913, leave 27 at
If the big building in the back ground is the Raleigh Hotel, on 12th St north of Penn, then the photo could be at 14th and Penn, looking east, as Mike Sullivan says.
Yes, that’s the Willard on the right and on the left is that oddly shaped block of buildings which later got razed and replaced with Pershing Park.
I think the Willard Hotel is the large building in the background, right. Compare your photo to this one:
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=willard+hotel+photo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=5bh&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=1440&bih=733&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=CMxvVLZc3KUMYM:&imgrefurl=http://dc.about.com/od/photos/ig/Historic-Photos-of-DC/Page55.htm&docid=mRzD4lOQXItU5M&imgurl=http://0.tqn.com/d/dc/1/0/H/R/Page55.jpg&w=800&h=616&ei=9frtT9fGBYOs8QT_vN2QAg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1152&vpy=431&dur=498&hovh=197&hovw=255&tx=196&ty=168&sig=115419896553937045227&page=3&tbnh=154&tbnw=200&start=56&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:56,i:269
Thanks for your post!
Brenda
No, that building in the background isn’t the Willard Hotel. The picture was shot from the front of the Willard Hotel, in fact. Notice that the brick building across the street in the picture above has a vertical sign saying “Miller’s”? That same sign is found on the building just across the street from the Willard in the image bredalthon cites. It’s in the block now occupied by the J.W. Marriott and National Theater. The street going off to the left is 14th Street, with E Street just off center and Pennsylvania Avenue going off toward the right. The parade seems to be coming up Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Avenue did mark the main route of the May 9 suffragists parade route. The massive march of more than 5,000 started on Pennsylvania Avenue by the White House, (around Executive Avenue east, between Madison and Jackson Place) went east on Pennsylvania to 15th, south on 15th back to Pennsylvania, east and over to First Street, NW.
From there, North on first to B Street, NW, east on B to First to enter the Capitol Grounds. [WaPo May 9, 1914]
There’s a chance the building in the background is a view of the Treasury Building which stood east of the Executive Mansion.
See Baist’s Real Estate atlas of surveys of Washington, 1913, leave 27 at
http://www.loc.gov/resource/g3851bm.gct00134a/seq-27
If the big building in the back ground is the Raleigh Hotel, on 12th St north of Penn, then the photo could be at 14th and Penn, looking east, as Mike Sullivan says.
Yes, that’s the Willard on the right and on the left is that oddly shaped block of buildings which later got razed and replaced with Pershing Park.