[Solita Solano on horse, leading suffrage parade, Beacon St., Boston] – Antique Print
![[Solita Solano on horse, leading suffrage parade, Beacon St., Boston], [1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c83dc6960b31-L.webp)
(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 rare historic photograph captures [Solita Solano on horse, leading suffrage parade, Beacon St., Boston] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Solita Solano on horse, leading suffrage parade, Beacon St., Boston]
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Solita Solano is shown on horseback at the head of a suffrage parade on Beacon Street in Boston, a detail that places this picture in the middle of the fight for women's voting rights rather than in a studio or a stable. Solano (1888-1975) was a writer and journalist who later worked in Paris, and her long partnership with the writer Janet Flanner is documented in the papers this print belongs to. In 1915 the suffrage movement was building toward the state and national campaigns that would secure the vote for women in 1920, and a woman riding at the front of a procession was a deliberate challenge to the idea that public political display belonged to men.
| Created / published | [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers. Reference copy also available in BIOGRAPHICAL FILE. |
| Subjects | Solano, Solita,--1888-1975--Public appearances--Massachusetts--Boston. Horseback riding--Massachusetts--Boston--1910-1920. Women's suffrage--Massachusetts--Boston--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179304 |
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