Congressional surgery. Legislative quackery, Political Cartoon
A rare anti-North satire, probably dealing with either the Crittenden Compromise or the Douglas Compromise. Proposed in December 1860 in the form of several constitutional amendments, the former called for rest... More
Frances E. Willard, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Frances E. Willard, facing forward with head slightly turned to the left, wearing eyeglasses and dress with high, ruffl... More
Isabella B. Hooker and John Hooker, 1893
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, seated outside on chairs, Isabella Beecher Hooker, wearing dress, shawl, and cap, holding piece of paper in right hand and looking over at J... More
Women in the home ... National American woman suffrage association. He...
Title.; Woman suffrage.; On verso: {stamp} D. of D. May 10, 1910; 09-83-443.3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... More
Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Page is Presi...
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ida F. Hasley, St. Chrmn, Oklahoma
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Ida F. Hasley, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing fur stole.
Anne Tillery Renshaw, Washington DC
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago and Washington, D.C., is one of th...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, half-length, Jessie Hardy Stubbs, facing forward, wearing short-brimmed hat, gloves, plaid suit with sailor-style blouse and necktie, carrying bri... More
Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, later Mrs. Benton Mackaye, also known as "Be...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter portrait of Jessie Hardy [MacKaye] facing camera, in light-colored suit, hand in pocket, wearing hat. Autographed in ink "Love and greetings f... More
Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Cong[ressional] Union, 1913
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, studio portrait of Lucy Burns, cofounder of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, later National Woman's Party, seated in... More
Miss Rebecca Hourwich of New York
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Rebecca Hourwich, facing forward with head cocked slightly to the left, wearing blouse, large brooch, and jacket..
[Inez Milholland Boissevain preparing to lead the March 3, 1913, suffr...
Summary: Photograph of Inez Milholland, full-length, facing forward, wearing white robes and a crown, astride a white horse in front of a crowd on a street in Washington, D.C. Title derived from Library of Cong... More
Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr of New York is one of the prominent members of ...
Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Rheta Childe Dorr, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding eye glasses in right hand and newspaper in left hand, wearing corduroy su... More
[Horse drawn float declares National American Woman Suffrage Associati...
Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Elizabeth Stuyvesant, State Organizer, National Woman's Party, her gre...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head portrait of Elizabeth Stuyvesant, with ribbon in her hair. Shoulders are sketched in with pencil. Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York City, formerly of Cincinnati, was a ... More
Miss Joy Young, of Washington, D.C. Assistant Editor of "The Suffragis...
Joy Young of New York City, formerly of Washington, D.C., was the wife of Merrill Rogers. She worked as an assistant on the staff of The Suffragist and later became an organizer for the NWP in various parts of ... More
Mrs. Annie G. Porritt, Hartford, Conn., Press Chairman Connecticut
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Annie G. Porritt, in dark dress with brooch. Descriptive caption on alternate item: "Mrs. Annie Porritt of Hartford, Conn., is one of the p... More
Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for ...
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mary... More
TR speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] [1] /
Three sequences of TR addressing groups from the porch at Sagamore Hill. First sequence is TR speaking to a group of people on Sept. 8, 1917 at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign at Saga... More
Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members leaving a prison building. Warden Zinkham (left).
[Grand Picket at the White House, eve of President Woodrow Wilson's se...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph on a rainy day of a woman standing on chair in slicker and rain hat speaking through a megaphone to suffragists standing with suffrage banners. On... More
Maryland Day [picketing the White House for suffrage]
Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of suffragists marching in contingent with banners, picketing outside on the sidewalk in front ... More
[Mrs.] Lawrence Lewis [Dora Lewis] of Philadelphia on release from jai...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis (Dora Lewis) (center) upon her release from jail, where she participated in hunger strike after arrest at Lafayette Square meeting... More
Mrs. Sarah Colvin of St. Paul, newly elected National chairman of the ...
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Sarah T. Colvin of St. Paul, Minnesota, standing in front of National Woman’s Party headquarters, Jacks... More
Conferring over ratification [of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Consti...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of six National Woman's Party members gathered around a table. Left to R: Dora Lewis (seated), Abby Scott Baker (seated), Anita Pollitzer (standing), Alice Paul ... More
Lucy Branham on Prison Special, San Francisco, California
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alice Paul and a delegation consulting with Governor Cox on the suffra...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members and Alice Paul gathered with Governor Cox on steps to a building, with photographers and cameras on tripods in the foreground.
Starting for ceremonial of dedication for Alva Belmont House.
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three young women, in robed costume, coming down the stairs of the Alva Belmont House with banners.
Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, who donated the headquarters of the Nationa...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alva Belmont (standing) speaking, wearing eyeglasses and using notes in hand, with others (men, front row, and women, back row) seated on stage.
Tillers of the Soil. Betty Rolfe, Maud Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Martha ...
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a jail; but 'til the E...
Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast. Ne...
Illustration showing at top of page, several men at a polling place where an African American man places his ballot in the box for "Re[publ]ican Mayor Welch" which is next to the empty ballot box for "The White... More
The Fifteenth amendment - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment. A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19t... More
The Fifteenth amendment - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment. A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19t... More
Temple of liberty, engraving, Library of Congress
A crude allegorical woodcut, bold in design, and probably produced for a banner or similar type of display. In the center is a peristyle Temple with an altar on which the figure of Liberty rises from a flame. T... More
[Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse...
Photo shows lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain riding astride in the March 3, 1913, suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., as the first of four mounted heralds. Additional information about the Bain Collection is ... More
Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri. An ordinance abolishing slavery in...
One of two splendid, large allegorical prints commemorating the ordinance providing for the immediate emancipation of slaves in Missouri. (See also no. 1865-1.) The ordinance was passed on January 11, 1865, thr... More
Mother Sexton - Early photography, Public domain image
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, Lydia Sexton, facing forward, standing next to a raised urn with her left hand resting on stone pedestal, wearing a bonnet and... More
Miss Helen Kellar [Keller] of Massachusetts is one of the prominent me...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulder portrait of Helen Keller, facing right. Published in Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1913, Nationa... More
League of self-supporting women meeting notice, Anne Cobden Sanderson ...
Picryl description: Public domain document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Alice Paul and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis holding a conference, Pauline Floy...
Title from another copy of the photo in the National Woman's Party Records, Box I:155, Folder: Paul, Alice. National Photo Company Collection.
[Hortense McDonald]. National Woman Party
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Hortense McDonald, facing camera, hand on hip, in checkered suit, with hat and handbag, architectural interior background.
Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson, N. Carolina St. Chrmn.
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Ella St. Clair Thompson, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing hat with embroidered appliqué and coat. T... More
Mrs. Street - Public domain portrait photograph
Summary: Unidentified actress in what appears to be a still photograph from a skit on woman's suffrage, featuring a woman wearing a wedding ring and a gingham dress and white apron seated at a table with mixing... More
Procession Summer 1913. Delegation Coming in from Hyattsville to prese...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of procession of cars, draped with banners, passing White House.
[Crowd converging on marchers and blocking parade route during March 3...
Public domain photograph of a parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Elizabeth Glendower Evans. - Public domain portrait print
Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elizabeth Glendower Evans, turned to the right with face in three-quarter profile, arms bent at elbows resting on waist, wearing wide-brimmed feathered hat. Title transc... More
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Public domain photograph of public building, train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, Grand Marshal of the procession organized ...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Postcard image of Juliet Rublee astride a horse with crowd of people in background.
[Fola LaFollette] going to annual meeting [of] C[ongressional] U[nion]...
Summary: Outdoor photograph of Fola La Follette (right) walking on city sidewalk with two unidentified women (left and rear, mostly obscured), all wearing coats and hats. Curbside trees, distant buildings, and ... More
Mrs. Mary Beard of New York is a member of the Executive Committee of ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mrs. Sara Bard Field, of San Francisco, is one of the most eloquent an...
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Sara Bard Field of San Francisco, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing light-colore... More
Miss Ilia Carpenter, secretary of Iowa Branch of National Woman's Part...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, in academic cap and gown, of Ilia Carpenter, secretary of Iowa Branch of National Woman’s Party, and a member of the committee to help ... More
[Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offi...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of two women working in the Suffragist office. Frances Pepper is seated at a typewriter; Elizabeth Smith is reaching for a shelf on a step ladder.... More
Mrs. Harry [Anna] Lowenburg, Chairman State of Pennsylvania, Board of ...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Anna Lowenburg, facing forward, seated in chair, holding book in right hand in lap, leaning left arm to jaw, in hat. A similar photo... More
[Map of] Route of Envoys Sent from East by the Congressional Union for...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arrival of the "Flying Squadron" at Colorado Springs, Colo[rado]. "Suf...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of suffragists gathered outside the depot of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with a banner, "We Demand an Amend... More
Suffrage pickets marching around the White House-- March 4, 1917
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women picketing with banners on sidewalk in front of White House. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 59 (Mar. 10, 1917): 8. Caption: "The Line on ... More
Mrs. J. H. H. [Alison Turnbull] Hopkins, of New Jersey, on the Woman's...
Title transcribed from image. Allison Turnbull Hopkins of Morristown, N.J., was New Jersey state chairman of the NWP and a member of the NWP executive committee in 1917, as well as president of various women's ... More
TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill...
TR addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of TR and a frontal view shot from the rear of th... More
Mrs. Weller of Arizona. - Public domain portrait photograph
Title transcribed from item. Summary: [Rainy day] outdoor portrait of Mrs. Weller, standing outside Madison Place on wet pavement, wearing suffrage sash and displaying Arizona state parade banner.
Left to Right: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins [Alison Turnbull Hop...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of three National Woman's Party members in prison dress carrying wooden chairs, on rooftop of building. (Left to right): Doris Stevens, Alison Turnbull H... More
Republican Convention. L-R: Mrs. James Rector, Ohio, Mary Dubrow, N.J....
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mrs. James Rector, Mary Dubrow, and Alice Paul standing outside and holding a banner, "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party... More
National Woman's Party Headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., in which the ...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of women and men posing under "National Woman's Party" banner.
Left to right: Adelaide Johnston, sculptor, Mrs. Lawrence [Dora] Lewis...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of sculptor Adelaide Johnston, National Woman's Party activist Dora Lewis, and social reformer Jane Addams posed in front of statue of pioneer suffragists in the... More
[National Woman's Party members standing in line with banners during t...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members assembling in street with banners. Among the banners are those reading "Nebraska," "California Republic," Connec... More
[National Woman's Party National Council, October 25, 1922]
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of eight National Woman's Party members outside on the steps in front of a building. Alva Belmont, center.
[National Woman's Party members walking with banners during the dedica...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members marching in the street with banners, U.S. Capitol dome in the background.
Mary Van Casteel, chairman Students' Council National Woman's Party, a...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mary Van Casteel, facing slightly left with head turned toward camera, wearing dress with lace collar and lace cuffs on sho... More
Alva Belmont's coffin being carried into St. Hubert's Chapel at Woodla...
Title and date transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of coffin covered with flowers being carried into a chapel. A policeman and people in coats are on the steps below, and National Woman's Party members f... More
A bill of rights as provided in the ten original amendments to the con...
On verso: Gift Verner W. Clapp, July 9, 1952. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 244... More
Putting the mortgage on the cradle
Print shows a saloon keeper nailing sign "inhereted appetite for liquor" on a cradle. Series G. No. 19. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2016-2017.
Emancipation Proclamation. Proclamation by the governor / E. Knobel, f...
One of two large commemorative prints marking the ordinance issued by Missouri governor Thomas C. Fletcher, proclaiming the immediate emancipation of slaves in that state. The Missouri ordinance was issued on J... More
Go ERA : 3, 2, 1, go - A yellow and blue sign with the word era on it
Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with othe...
Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913. Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant.... More
The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original ...
Another of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment, on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment and showing the grand May 19 celebratory parade in Baltimore. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3)... More
Men's League for Women's Suffrage: Constitution and Charter Members
Lists officers and charter members: President, George Foster Peabody; Secretary Treasurer, Max Eastman; 13 Vice Presidents including William Dean Howells, Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, President Langdon Stewardson, ... More
Mrs. Bertha C. Moller of Minneapolis, Minn.
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Bertha C. Moller, facing forward, wearing fur and velvet hat.
Nell Mercer, Norfolk, Virginia - Public domain portrait
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Nell Mercer, seated, with painted backdrop, wearing broad-collared suit and hat with leaves and berries. Printed as a picture postcard. Nell Mercer ... More
Miss Clara Louise Thompson of Missouri, one of the prominent members o...
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia[delphia] [Dora Lewis]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Rosalie Jones]. - An old photo of a woman holding a bunch of flowers
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, standing, Rosalie Jones, wearing long dress and hooded cloak, holding walking stick, bouquet of flower... More
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Pres. Ohio Woman's Suf[frage] Ass[ociation]...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Harriet Taylor Upton, in dark satin with brocade, brooch at neck.
Mrs. [Florence] Boeckel. - Public domain portrait print
Summary: Informal portrait of Florence Brewer Boeckel seated at desk, with pencil in hand, reading a typewritten document in front of her, wearing a blouse, jacket, and wide-brimmed hat with appliquéd flowers. ... More
[Suffragist Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffra...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Margaret Foley (right?) and an unidentified woman (left), both carrying pocketbooks and wearing fur-trimmed hats and fur stoles, standing outsi... More
Miss Katharine Morey, Massachusetts state chairman for the National Wo...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Miss Matilda Young - Public domain portrait print
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Matilda Young, facing slightly to the right with head turned slightly to the left, standing with right hand in pocket... More
Controversial Party Banner in Tucson, Ariz[ona], 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street in Tucson with banner raised up across, "Women voters vote against Wilson-Ashurst-Hayden. Their party opposes national woman suffrage. National Woman's... More
Joy Young at time of Inez Milholland memorial services at [U.S.] Capit...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Joy Young, facing forward, standing outdoors on sidewalk with banner, "Without Extinction is Liberty, Without Retrograde is ... More
Abby Scott Baker. - Public domain dedication image
Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., sitting at a desk, facing left, and reading, with papers, books, and a typewriter nearby. Title supplied by Library of C... More
Miss Beulah Amidon, "The Prettiest Picket"
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Beulah Amidon, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a broad-brimmed hat. Verso: "Please return to Miss C... More
Mabel Vernon Speaking at Suffrage Rally, May, 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mabel Vernon speaking to large crowd (mostly men) outside building in Chicago. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 25 (June ... More
Mrs. Frederick Forrest, Spokane, Washington, newly elected state chair...
Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mrs. Frederick Story Forrest, with head and eyes turned slightly to the left, wearing suit with ruffled blouse, wide-brimmed hat with satin and feather trim, and h... More
The Suffrage Picket Riots, Aug. 1917
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with a car, a trolley, and large crowds of people.
Miss Mildred Gilbert of San Francisco, one of the Congressional Union ...
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, Mildred Gilbert, facing camera with head and eyes turned to the right, wearing close-fitting hat, t... More
Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
An old black and white photo of a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. ... More
Jackson Place Headquarters, NWP, 1918-1920
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of exterior of Jackson Place Headquarters of the National Woman's Party.