Reicher was hired to portray the mythological figure
Columbia for the
Woman Suffrage Procession, a suffrage parade on 3 March 1913, in Washington, D.C. According to news reports at the time, the group, which included 5000 to 8000 suffragists, marched from the US Capitol to the Treasury Building, and was watched by a crowd of 500,000 (mostly men). Their intent was to upstage
Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, due to take place the following day. ==References==