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Alma Nash’s All Women Maryville Band Leads Suffragette Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue March 2, 1913 — Day Before Woodrow Wilson Inaugurated

Top Row: Edith Davenport, Helen Young, Mary Thomas, May Denny, Margaret Conway, Myrtle Lanning, May Shipps, Gerturde Kireh, Velema Lanning. Middle Row: Mary’O’Brien, Anna Dougan, Ora Quinn, Helen Rowley, Lela Caudle, Mrs. Del Thompson, Hazel Vandervoort, Grace O’Brien, Mary Q. … Continue reading

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Alma Nash in First All Women Theatre Orchestra in 1923

Maryville music school teacher Alma Nash is pictured in 1923 playing drums with the Reiter Sisters’ Orchestra, which was claimed to be the first all-women orchestra at a theatre.  In this case, it was Shubert’s newly acquired Missouri Theatre in … Continue reading

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