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From The Yosemite Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada

Chairman of the Library Committee'

although sometimes uneasily

With the trophy and winner's laurel wreath behind him in a crowd of supporters

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings mb-artist Studio_of_Cornelius_Janssen_van_Ceulen From The Yosemite Book: ASuffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings, 1909. The Suffragettes found that by chaining themselves to railings they could gain much needed time to deliver their speeches before the police arrested them. The woman on the right is Vera Holme (1881 1969), Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) chauffeur.