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In front of National Woman's Party headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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A group of people standing in front of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from similar negatives in collection.

Date based on date of photograph by National Photo Company with the title "When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug. 19, 1920, Alice Paul, National chairman of the Woman's Party, unfurled the ratification banner ..." (MSS Div.)

File print in SSF-Women Politics & Suffrage.

Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.

General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec

Temp. note: Batch seven.

The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)

In 1913 Woman suffrage procession organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and led by Inez Milholland marched through Washington, D.C. In 1917 Suffragettes organized the "Silent Sentinels" first protest outside The White House, in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party. Alice Paul served a 7-month jail sentence for protesting women's rights in Washington.

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01/01/1915
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Harris & Ewing

The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives. Washington DC.

Alice Paul

Alice Paul was the leader of the 1910s suffragist movement for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - a right to vote for women. Paul was a leader of the National Woman's Party.
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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