This photo was published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 63, April 7, 1917. The original caption was "Jeannette Rankin Makes Her First Speech in Washington," and it was part of a story, "The Capitol Welcomes Jeannette Rankin."
The suffrage movement celebrated the arrival of Rankin in Washington, as Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress (November 7, 1916). She had been a firld secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and had been part of the 1913 suffrage march greeting the soon-to-be-inaugurated Woodrow Wilson. She ran in 1916 on a peace platform, as war with Europe became likely.
