HISTORICAL RESEARCH 2016 - 2020
This section includes related research and ephemera of historical significance that directly informed the making of the project STANDING TOGETHER: Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage 2016 - 2020, such as: facsimiles of newspaper ads, organization paperwork including correspondence, academic papers, in addition to quotes and accounts from campaign participants. Where available, images from the various collections used to piece together the campaign trail are shown. As well as, information that explains specific locations, stops, and/or people all organized according to the documented route. Overarching ephemera is presented at the beginning of this page. Below is where ephemera specific to the route is shown.
12,000 Mile Swing through the West, 2020. Two archival pigment prints of a Rand-McNally 1916 Official Railroad Map of the United States and Southern Canada that were hand-embroidered by the artist. The map depicts Inez Milholland’s route as Special Flying Envoy during the National Woman’s Party 1916 Western Campaign.
Coordinating schedules of hundreds of women, including Inez and her sister Vida, across the cities of the 12 western states for the 1916 campaign was a logistical feat achieved through letters and telegrams going back and forth between Alice Paul in Chicago at National Woman’s Party headquarters and the various state members. The schedules were constantly changing and being updated. The three pages above are a revised itinerary for Inez Milholland [Itinerary pages and telegrams: National Woman’s Party Records, Reel 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.] . In addition to the pages above, telegrams, letters to her husband, local newspaper coverage, The Suffragist Magazine from the National Woman’s Party, railroad time tables, field reports, historians, books and other materials were consulted and cross-referenced to create the embroidered map that shows Inez and Vida Milholland’s route in October during their part of the 1916 National Woman’s Party Western Campaign.
Letter, p. 1, October 10, 1916. Papers of Inez Milholland, 1906-1916. Personal correspondence: Inez Milholland to Eugen Jan Boissevain: October 8 - 20, 1916. MC 308, folder 5. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, Sunday, October 22, 1916, p. 21
San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California, Sunday, October 22, 1916, p. 37, Newspaper and Current Periodical Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Suffragist, Vol. IV, No. 42, October 14, 1916, p.7, Newspaper and Current Periodical Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.