Sen. O'Gorman & Suffreagettes: Mrs. Boissevain, Mrs. W.L. Colt (LOC)

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    Sen. O'Gorman & Suffreagettes: Mrs. Boissevain, Mrs. W.L. Colt

    [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

    1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

    Notes:
    Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
    Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

    Format: Glass negatives.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

    Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19030

    Call Number: LC-B2- 3462-14

    Comments and faves

    1. Flyvapnet and jpkim9774 added this photo to their favorites.

    2. artolog (3 months ago | reply)

      Sen. James O'Gorman [D-NY, 1911-1917],
      "" I will not vote for this or any other woman suffrage amendment," said Senator James A. O'Gorman to the big delegation of women representing the Women's Congressional Union which visited him by appointment in his office yesterday afternoon to ask support for the Bristow-Mondell bill to submit an amendment to the Federal Constitution to give women the right to vote."
      New York Times, May 1, 1915
      query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E 3D9123FE233A...
      An aside: "O'Gorman was the last U.S. Senator elected by a State Legislature, and from 1914 on they have been elected by general ballot on the state ticket."
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Aloysius_O'Gorman

    3. Ryan (LOC P&P) (3 months ago | reply)

      Thanks to both of you for your research. What a character he must have been. We'll add the date and other information to this photo and the other one from the same day.

    4. Ryan (LOC P&P) (3 months ago | reply)

      My research leads me to think that the woman to the left of Sen. O'Gorman is Mrs. William L. Colt, and the woman on is right is Mrs. Boissevain. The Bain captioners must have switched them. They got the names correct is this image: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/775 3232100/
      We'll make the correction to the record the next time we update.

    5. pennylrichardsca (3 months ago | reply)

      That makes sense to me. The woman with the veil doesn't look like any other images of Inez Milholland, anyway.

    6. artolog (3 months ago | reply)

      I suppose the woman with the fox around her neck is Inez Milholland, though it doesn't look a lot like other photos of her:
      Inez Milholland.
      An excellent biographical sketch of her is at the Vassar website:
      vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/alumni/inez-milholl and.html

    7. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (2 months ago | reply)

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Aloysius_O%27Gorm an

      James Aloysius O'Gorman, Sr. (May 5, 1860 – May 17, 1943) was a one-term United States Senator from New York.

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