Hazel MacKaye (1880–1944) was an American theater professional and suffragist. She is best known for helping present a series of pageants in support of
women's suffrage. The organizers of the
Woman Suffrage Procession, planned for March 3, 1913 (just prior to
President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration), in Washington, D.C., asked MacKaye to create a pageant for the event. Titled Allegory and produced by
Glenna Smith Tinnin, it was presented on the steps of the
Treasury Building as the culmination of the event. The pageant was praised as "one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles ever staged in this country" in The New York Times. This photograph of MacKaye holding a dog was taken in 1915 by the photographic studio
Harris & Ewing.Photograph credit:
Harris & Ewing; restored by
Adam Cuerden