Belva Lockwood Testimonial Program

The Belva Lockwood Testimonial Pageant and Ball was held on May 8, 1914 at the Hotel LaSalle on Madison Street in Chicago, approximately two years prior to her death. The general program for the event was headed by Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, and it was entitled "The Apotheosis of Woman," featuring various pageants on "The World's Famous Women of Myth, History, Literature, and Art." Mari Ruef Hofer did the staging. Pageants were frequently part of the "visual rhetoric" of suffrage demonstrations.