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Mrs. R. B. Quay, of Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the members of the National Woman's Party who has served a thirty day sentence at the government jail and workhouse at Washington for picketing the White House gates with a suffrage banner.
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Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mrs. R. B. (Minnie) Quay.
Minnie Quay of Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested Nov. 10, 1917, while picketing the White House in Washington, D.C., and sentenced to 30 days in District Jail, she was sent instead to Occoquan Workhouse and was there during the "Night of Terror" Nov. 15, 1917, during which guards used violence towards imprisoned protestors. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 366.
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Date
01/01/1910
Location
Sugar House (Salt Lake City, Utah), 40.72583, -111.86528
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain
