Press Photo of Woman Suffrage Activist Cora Anderson Carpenter Leading a New York City Suffrage Parade in 1915

New York City: Underwood & Underwood, 1915. Press photo measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Publisher's stamps verso with typed caption. Manuscript markings on negative. Excellent contrast. With some damage to edges, especially lower right margin, and small pinhole at upper right, not intersecting with subject. Excellent.. A photograph of Cora Anderson Carpenter (1863-1960) leading a woman suffrage parade through New York City; wearing white and carrying an American flag, Carpenter salutes as a band of men plays behind her. Carpenter was a member and later leader of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA), founded in 1869 following a convention of leading suffragists in Saratoga Springs and dissolved in 1917 when women in New York were granted the vote. Carpenter regularly marched in this costume for suffrage parades, and her image was used on a pro-suffrage stamp created in 1915.[1]

This parade in particular involved many prominent New Yorkers: its Grand Marshal was Ethel Stebbins, daughter of former Congressman and New York Stock Exchange president Henry G. Stebbins; lawyer and politician Charles Lewis Guy; politician and New York Immigration Commissioner Frederick C. Howe; and others.[2]

[1] "Poster Stamp: Vote for woman suffrage amendment Nov. 2nd 1915," Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection, accessed May 26, 2026, https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/items/show/2062.
[2] "TO RULE SUFFRAGE MARCH. Miss Ethel Stebbins to be Grand Marshal of Saturday's Parade," The New York Times, October 21, 1915, 4.