Miss Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pennsylvania A picket who served time in prison during the campaign of the National Woman's Party
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Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Kate Heffelfinger, facing right, with chin resting on arm bent at elbow, wearing a v-neck dress with suffrage prisoner pin.
Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Penn., was an art student and NWP activist. She was sentenced to six months in District Jail for picketing Oct. 15, 1917; another month was added to her sentence later, for a previous offense. In August 1918 she was sentenced to 15 days for participating in a Lafayette Square meeting, and in January 1919, she was sentenced to five days for participation in a watchfire demonstration. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361.
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