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Miss Alice Paul of Natl. Woman's Party
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A black and white photo of a woman reading a book, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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Date span based on active dates of Harris & Ewing, Inc.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
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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.)
Collection - 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.Collection - Harris & Ewing
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives. Washington DC.
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