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Woman on Bicycle 1922

National Woman's Party Messenger

The will endowing the National Woman's Party with a headquarters stipulated that employees were to be women.
Female bicycle messenger working for the National Woman's Party, 1922.

Female bicycle messenger working for the National Woman's Party, 1922.

Courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress.
Original caption: "No more messenger boys for the National Woman's Party--from president to messenger all the members of the staff are feminine. This is in accordance with the stipulation of Mrs. Belmont when she donated the National Women's [i.e., Woman's] Party headquarters. Photo of Julia Obear, messenger."

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