Miss Alice Reighly, President of the Anti-flirt Club which has just been organized in Wash., D.C. and will launch an Anti-flirt" week beginning March 4th - the club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners" – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Miss Alice Reighly, President of the Anti-flirt Club which has just been organized in Wash., D.C. and will launch an Anti-flirt" week beginning March 4th - the club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners" brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Miss Alice Reighly, President of the Anti-flirt Club which has just been organized in Wash., D.C. and will launch an Anti-flirt" week beginning March 4th - the club is composed of young women and girls who have been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners"
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Alice Reighly, identified in the caption as president of a newly organized Anti-flirt Club in Washington, D.C., is the subject of this February 1923 print. According to the caption, the club's members were young women and girls who had been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners, and it planned an "Anti-flirt" week beginning March 4. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington firm that supplied news photographs to newspapers, and posed portraits like this were a common way for organizations of the period to attract press attention. It offers a glimpse of how street conduct between men and women was discussed in the early 1920s.
| Created / published | 1923 Feb. 27. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., Jan. 1923 to Jan. 1924, v. 1, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 22502. Caption card tracings: Clubs; PI; Woman -- Misc.; Manners & customs; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 943 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117676 |
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