Feminists telephone the Hague to determine their status in proposed World Code. The National Woman's Party in Washington was all agog today as Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley telephoned Miss Doris Stevens, chairman of the InterAmerican Commission of Women at the Haugue, to ascertain whether the World Code now being drawn up by the Codification Conference of International Law will be based on sex discrimination. In the photograph, left to right: Miss Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley; Miss Alice Paul; and Miss Elsie Hill of Connecticut

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.

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.)