Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917] /

Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 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 Nov. 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 TR talking to three women: the woman in the dark hat and coat is Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid; the woman dressed in furs next to TR is Mrs. Whitehouse; and the tall woman in the light hat and jacket is Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw.Copyright: no reg.Duration: 0:10 at 16 fps.RMA lists date in title as 1918.Appearing: Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid (Helen Rogers), Mrs. Whitehouse (Vira B.), Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw (Harriet Burton).LC copy is incomplete, has only flash title. DLCNational Park Service acquire from Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA). Gift to RMA from Pathe. DLCDonor's inventory number: RMA 307-3-8. DLCMAVIS 12917; Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917]. DLCSources used: Harper, Ida H., ed. History of woman suffrage. v. 6, 1969; Bain, George Grantham. [News photos of woman suffrage in the United States, mostly New York City, 1905-1917.] lot 11052. P&P; League of Women Voters in the United States. ...[W]omen active in the women's suffrage movement and as members of the National League of Women Voters. lot 5544. P&P; The Brooklyn daily eagle. 9/9/1917:1, 4; Theodore Roosevelt film catalog, p. 123.viewing print and dupe neg pic; Received: May 1968 from USDA lab; preservation; Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection.Received: 1967; transferred to LC from NPS, NPS acquired from RMA, gift to RMA from Pathé; flash title; transferred to safety from LC nitrate at USDA lab: May 1968