Janet Lindenmuth
@janetlindenmuth
Law librarian at Delaware Law School. Delaware history, legal and otherwise. Also researching women in the suffrage movement. Ruza Wenclawski bio
They cite a Russian website which Wayback Machine didn't crawl until 2015. And which doesn't say where they got the photo from.
This doesn't help much but it was on a defunct website called likes[.]com in 2013.
This has been wrong on the internet since at least 2014. There's no stopping it now!
I honestly thought this was a nice historic marker at first glance. Rose Winslow wasn’t force fed in prison so you could bet on dumb shit.
Here's a photo of young women working in a Philadelphia hosiery factory. It was taken 15 years after Ruza left factory work, but the machinery was much the same. Note the exposed belt that drives the machinery. In one speech Ruza describes a worker caught up in the belt and whirled into the air.
A few more thoughts on Iron Jawed Angels. I like that we see Ruza working in a factory, although she worked in a hosiery factory not a garment factory. She would have worked with knitting machines not sewing machines. The movie reuses the sewing machines in the prison scenes, a budget issue, I bet.
Ruza also wrote poetry! Almost all of her poems were published in The Masses, the socialist magazine published in Greenwich Village by Max Eastman. (His sister Crystal Eastman was one of the founders of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage) #hatm
Ruza appears in this clip from the Women's Political Union suffrage film "80 Million Women Want." She is sitting in the back of the car on the left and you can see her briefly at the end. She rubs her nose! I think the woman speaking at the beginning is Helen Todd. #hatm
Ruza (on the left) and other working women at the 1914 working women's delegation to the White House. $hatm
Here are a few more photos of Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow! I just found this arty one in the Doris Stevens papers. #hatm
Ruza mostly acted with the Provincetown Players, an experimental theater in Greenwich Village. She started performing with them in 1918 and appeared in several of their plays until 1925. #hatm
Ruza really did act on Broadway! Here she's listed in the playbill for Fashion at the Cort Theater in 1924. She also appeared in Redemption and the premier of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms. #hatm
The NWP worried about Ruza's health in prison. In this letter Lucy asks Doris to get Ruza's doctor to contact the prison doctor. Dr. Rogers' wife Elizabeth Rogers was also a suffragist. #hatm
Someone at the 1913 march did threaten men with her hatpin. It was not, unfortunately, Ruza.
Also Vivian Pierce, the National Woman's Party's funniest suff! She was an NWP organizer and editor of the Suffragist.
I was taught that as a child but I am old! Here's a snippet from a 1962 social studies textbook, "Living in our country and other lands." I was in school 10 years later but some of our textbooks were a bit old.
Found a new photo of Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow. I don’t know who took it or when but I would estimate 1917ish.
F Supp is not a person. It's a citation for a law reporter -- Federal Supplement.
There are hundreds of paintings sold online attributed to the artist Caroline Burnet. But she probably never painted any of them. Who was Caroline Currie Burnet? medium.com/@JanetLinden...
I totally forgot about this, the most obscure Delaware legal research rabbit hole I ever went down. And I never found the thesis. Do you have a copy of Wolcott, James L., The Development of the Delaware Corporation Law, unpublished thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1931?
Bertha Berglin Moller was born in Sweden and immigrated to Minnesota. She was active in the suffrage movement first in Minnesota. In 1918 and 1919 she became a stalwart White House picket and was arrested 11 times and served two prison sentences.