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Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party.  She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago.

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Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party. She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago.

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Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of Mary Bartelme, second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party and judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago, seated at paper-covered desk, facing left with head turned to camera, wearing a high-collared dress with pin on left side of chest.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 25 (June 17, 1916): 5. Caption: "Judge Mary M. Bartelme, Illinois. Second Vice Chairman Woman's Party." The photograph may have been taken in conjunction with a story about Bartelme in the May 25, 1913, issue of The New York Times Magazine ("America's Only Woman Judge Is Doing a Big Work"), which is illustrated with both a sketch and photograph of her in which she appears to be wearing the same outfit shown in this image. The drawing is captioned: "Miss Mary Margaret Bartelme."
According to contemporary newspaper articles and a biographical essays by Estelle B. Freedman in Notable American Women: The Modern Period, ed. Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University), 60, and by Gwen Hoerr McNamee in Women Building Chicago, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 66-70, Bartelme's middle name was Margaret. On March 3, 1913, she began hearing cases as an assistant judge in the Court for Delinquent Girls, a branch of Chicago's Juvenile Court.
Bartelme served as vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party in 1916-1917 according to Donald L. Haggerty, ed., The National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913-1920: A Guide to the Microfilm (Sanford, N.C.: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981).
The print has been touched up for publication (paint has been applied to the background to make Bartelme's image stand out better).

Suffragettes Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 1800s, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women. Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881, and in 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted all women the right to vote. Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917; Britain, Germany, Poland in 1918; Austria and the Netherlands in 1919; and the United States in 1920. Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood: "The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena..."

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