Women suffragettes visit Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore [1917]
Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on September 8, 1917, at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was rejected by the voters in 1915. On November 6, 1917, the suffrage amendment to the New York State Constitution was approved by the voters. The suffragists invited to Sagamore Hill were headed by Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, State Chairman of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party. Sequence of Roosevelt talking to three women: the woman in the dark hat and coat is Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid; the woman dressed in furs next to Roosevelt is Mrs. Whitehouse; and the tall woman in the light hat and jacket is Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw.
Collection
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Creation Date
1917