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Thrift parade

Thrift parade

Accession number: 2002.226.2

When the United States entered World War I, Lila Meade Valentine, president of the Equal Suffrage League, offered the services of her organization to Governor Henry C. Stuart and the war effort. League members turned out in force for a thrift parade on March 17, 1918.


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