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Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917
Officers, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917

Officers, National American Woman Suffrage Association, meeting with President Wilson, 1917.

Image courtesy National Archives and Records Administration. Photographer: Harris and Ewing.
From the original caption: "This delegation of officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association received from President Wilson a memorial to the French women in which he advocates the federal woman suffrage amendment."

From left to right, front row: Maud Wood Park, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, Helen Gardener. Back row: Rose Young, Mrs. George Bass, Ruth White.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1890 when the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association, once rival organizations, merged.

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