![Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at the gate of the White House.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjAvbWlzcy1lbHNpZS1tLWhpbGwtb2YtY29ubmVjdGljdXQtYS1jb25ncmVzc2lvbmFsLXVuaW9uLXBpY2tldC1hdC10aGUtZ2F0ZS1vZi1mMjJjMWQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/476/jpg "Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at the gate of the White House.")
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Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at the gate of the White House.
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Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elsie M. Hill, taken outdoors on picket line, wearing wide-brimmed hat with fur trim, coat, fur stole, and tricolor (purple, white, gold) sash.
Elsie Hill, of Norwalk, Conn., was the daughter of Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill of Connecticut. She was a graduate of Vassar College and taught French in a District of Columbia high school. She was a member of the executive committee of the Congressional Union, 1914-15, and later national organizer for the NWP. She was sentenced August 1918 to 15 days in District Jail for speaking at Lafayette Square meeting; in February 1919, she was sentenced to 8 days in Boston for participation in the "welcome" demonstration of President Woodrow Wilson. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361.
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