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Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence.

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Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence.

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Summary: Pauline Adams, three-quarter-length portrait, sitting at a table in prison clothes with right arm raised holding a cup.
Mrs. Pauline Adams of Norfolk, Virginia, was arrested when picketing the White House on Sept. 4, 1917, and sentenced to sixty days in Occoquan Workhouse. She was arrested again at a watchfire demonstration on Feb. 9, 1919, but was released on account of lack of evidence. She was one of the speakers on the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 1 (Feb. 15, 1919): 5.

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