Tuesday, 12 November 2013 - 05:30
First moving images of Aletta Jacobs found
Historian Marten van Harten accidentally stumbled upon the first moving images of the feminist Aletta Jacobs during an investigation.
The footage of about twenty seconds was created in 1915. Knowledge Institute Atria, which conducts research into women's emancipation, announced the discovery of the images.
Van Harten discovered the images of Jacobs on the image archive site Critical Past. Mineke Bosch, professor of history at the University of Groningen and the author of a biography of Aletta Jacobs, confirmed Monday that the images undeniably show unique images of Aletta Jacobs from 1915.
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Chicago Daily News, September 29, 1915. Archive of "The Library of Congress" In the movie Jacobs is seen, walking in front of the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. She organized the Hague women's congress during the First World War. The images were made when the feminist was on a tour, visiting all prime ministers and foreign affairs ministers of the countries at war. They wanted to offer them the resolution of the congress. Jacobs was in the company of the American Jane Addams , who would receive The Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Bosch has been searching for moving images of Aletta Jacobs , but could never find any. Surely there were cameras present in places where Jacobs appeared. The professor of history is certain there must be more moving images of Jacobs, but chances are they are in some old box in somebody's attic. Aletta Jacobs was the most famous Dutch representative of the first wave of feminism . Among other things she fought for women's suffrage. Jacobs was also the first woman in the Netherlands who finished a university degree (medicine in 1877 and 1878 ) . She was only allowed to take the exam after Minister Thorbecke personally gave permission.
Chicago Daily News, September 29, 1915. Archive of "The Library of Congress" In the movie Jacobs is seen, walking in front of the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. She organized the Hague women's congress during the First World War. The images were made when the feminist was on a tour, visiting all prime ministers and foreign affairs ministers of the countries at war. They wanted to offer them the resolution of the congress. Jacobs was in the company of the American Jane Addams , who would receive The Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Bosch has been searching for moving images of Aletta Jacobs , but could never find any. Surely there were cameras present in places where Jacobs appeared. The professor of history is certain there must be more moving images of Jacobs, but chances are they are in some old box in somebody's attic. Aletta Jacobs was the most famous Dutch representative of the first wave of feminism . Among other things she fought for women's suffrage. Jacobs was also the first woman in the Netherlands who finished a university degree (medicine in 1877 and 1878 ) . She was only allowed to take the exam after Minister Thorbecke personally gave permission.