American Suffragettes

Clip: 440641_1_1

Year Shot: 1918 (Estimated Year)

Audio: No

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 185

Original Film: CS-16-520

HD: N/A

Location: San Francisco, California

Timecode: 00:21:37 - 00:22:24

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Touring country in campaign for universal suffrage--24 suffragettes who serves terms in jail, arrive on "Prison Special". MS women in identical prison issued dresses filling out of train. MS women posing in and around train car, a few women have flags. MSs suffragettes parading around rail station with flags and banner reading 'Resistance to Tyranny is Reverence to God', all wearing identical dresses. MS well-to-do women in fashionable clothing wearing suffragette sashes, posing for panning camera. CU striped suffrage sash across woman's chest. MS woman talking to camera, wearing a suffragette sash and holding a flag. MCU suffragette woman.