political activity, women

Woman's crusade against intemperance / drawn by C.S. Reinhart.

Women in barroom protesting the sale of alcoholic beverages. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1874 March 14, p. 236.

Women march for free Erin, National Photo Company, Washington DC

Miss Amelia Rosser, who appeared as Ireland in bondage, standing in car in parade staged by women urging Congress to abrogate all treaties with England until Ireland is recognized, on Capitol Hill, Washington, ... More

A tip to John Bull / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows five women suffragettes, wearing Napoleonic hats and great coats, standing on a tiny island. Caption: Send your militant suffragettes to Saint Helena. Illus. in: Puck, v. 73, no. 1884 (1913 ... More

Throng of women charge on New York city hall to demand bread

Crowd of women, led by Mrs. Ida Harris, president of the Woman's Vigilance League, at the city hall to protest the soaring cost of food. (Source: Independent, 12 March 1917; International Socialist Review, Apri... More

Cell at Occoquan [Workhouse]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a prison cell in Occoquan Workhouse seen through door with bars.

Taking suffrage prisoners from D.C. Court House to prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of arrested National Woman's Party members being loaded into a vehicle just inside garage entrance to brick building, overseen by police and onlookers.

When women decide this war should end, this war will end Join the Unit...

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Suffrage march line--How thousands of women parade today at Capitol

Women marchers organized by country, state, occupation, and organization, led by Miss Inez Milholland and Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson, during the suffrage march, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C. Illus. in: New Yo... More

Palmer Committee, 15 - Public domain photograph

A group of people walking down a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph taken at the White House of the group of children who have ...

Includes wives of political prisoners who are protesting with children. National Photo Company Collection. No. 18642.

January 12, 1927. White House reception by the President and Mrs. Cool...

Photographer's address: 1405 F St. [Washington, DC]. No. 3568. Mary Montgomery Booze is labeled at far right. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (Benjamin Montgomery Family Papers); 1973; DLC/PP-1973:231.

The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing ...

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Les dames de la Halle partant pour aller chercher le Roi a Versailles,...

Print shows a large procession of women and some members of the National Guard, with a carriage and a covered wagon, marching to Versailles. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de l... More

Vida Milholland [in jail cell]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Vida Milholland behind bars in a jail cell (District Jail, Washington, D.C.). Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 5 (Feb. 9,... More

[Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel (c...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hospital at D.C. prison showing, on 3rd floor right, Alice Paul's wind...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of exterior of prison hospital. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1919): 6.

Palmer Committee - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a couple, husband and wife, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Three African American women singing and walking in a street in the Ca...

Photograph by "DS." Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1995-851 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1995-851, frame 17. Contact sh... More

When women decide this war should end, this war will end Join the Unit...

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Raising the "No more war" banner over the headquarters of the Council ...

Photograph shows a large group, mostly women, in front the National Council for Reduction of Armaments headquarters, in the same building as the National League of Women Voters headquarters, 532 17th St., N.W.,... More

Washington, D.C. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representativ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Tier in D.C. prison where suffragists were confined in 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of interior of prison, with cells, tables and chairs.

Baggage for Prison Special - Jackson Place Hdqtrs on Lafayette Sq.

[Anti-Vietnam war protest and demonstration in front of the White Hous...

Photograph shows anti-war demonstrators carrying signs, "No more...Stop the war!", "Eartha Kitt speaks for the women of America", and "Stop the draft", picketing in front of the White House. Contact sheet avai... More

Women's liberation march from Farrugut Square to Layfette i.e., Lafaye...

Photograph shows women carrying banners and signs while marching down a street in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration in favor of equal rights for women. Title transcribed from contact sheet folder caption... More

[Cathey Steinberg, Sara Nichols, Hilda Pemberton, Representative Conni...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1991-730 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1991-730, frame 24A/25. Contact sheet or negative ... More

Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3...

Cover of program for the National American Women's Suffrage Association procession, showing woman, in elaborate attire, with cape, blowing long horn, from which is draped a "votes for women" banner, on decorate... More

Women! Free our sisters - images Black History Month

Poster showing four women demonstrating for release of six members of the Black Panther Party from the Niantic State Women's Farm in Connecticut.

Raising the "No more war" banner over the headquarters of the Council ...

Photograph shows a large group, mostly women, in front the National Council for Reduction of Armaments headquarters, in the same building as the National League of Women Voters headquarters, 532 17th St., N.W.,... More

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

Puck magazine cover - "Marching through Georgia" / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows a group of men and women marching under such banners as "The Lips That Touch Corn Likker Shall Never Touch Ourn", "W.C.T.U.", and "Carrie Nation Cadets", with one man carrying a small barrel ... More

Famous G.O.P. women arrive - Public domain portrait print

Mrs. Corrine Roosevelt Robinson standing with Mrs. Jennette Hyde and Mrs. Carrie Fosseen, seated in front row are Mrs. Arthur Livermore, Mrs. Harriet Upton, and Mrs. Christine Bradley. Title transcribed from "s... More

[Female film industry workers carrying a large American flag as part o...

World-Telegram staff photo. Image is reversed. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

We want our rights Rea Irvin - Public domain print

Single panel cartoon, drawn in the style of the decoration on a Greek vase, shows Susan B. Anthony, clad in flowing garments, poking a startled man in the chest with an umbrella. She is followed by other women... More

The mascot / painted by Rolf Armstrong.

Illustration shows head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman wearing a uniform and Puck holding a large pencil, both wear sashes labeled "Votes for Women". Illus. in: Puck, v. 77, no. 1981 (1915 February 20), cov... 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

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).

[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

Lucy Branham on Prison Special, San Francisco, California

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newark women plod in snow to plea for food

Women walking through snow and slush in Newark, New Jersey, to the city hall to place before Mayor Raymond a resolution calling for purchase and sale by the city of needed food. Photo from Central News Photo Se... More

Irish freedom demonstration - Public domain demonstration print

Photograph shows a group of women with picket signs in support of American intervention in the cause of an independent Ireland. J243902 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Harris & Ewing News Ne... More

But there was one knight--the White Knight--a descendant of the house ...

List of people involved in Clare Boothe Luce's 1944 re-election campaign for US representative from the 4th district of Connecticut (Fairfield County) against Margaret E. Connors, Deputy Secretary of State of C... More

[Women outside the U.S. Capitol holding signs supporting the National ...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1995-215 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1995-215, frame 14. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Ye May session of ye woman's rights convention - ye orator of ye day d...

Print shows a group of women in a hall listening to a woman speaker who is pointing to the men sitting in an upper gallery. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 3, no. 128 (1859 June 11), p. 372.

[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

Le roi promettant de venir a Paris avec sa famille. Salve d'Artillerie...

Print shows the departure from Versailles of Louis XVI and his family accompanied by a large mob of citizens, mostly women, who have come to excort them back to Paris. Illustration from: Collection complète de... More

Cell blocks at Occoquan [Workhouse]

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of the exterior of cell blocks at Occoquan prison.

D.C. prison where suffrage pickets were confined.

Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Mary Winsor, standing outside, holding a banner that reads: "To Ask Freedom for Women is Not... More

Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Helena Hill Weed, facing forward, standing behind bars in a prison cell. Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, Conn., was a graduate of Vassar Col... More

[Mrs. James Rector of Columbus, Ohio consulting with W.D. Jameson on t...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, 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

Suffragette parade Mar. 3, 1913; Wash., D.C.

Photograph shows nurses marching to support women's suffrage near the U.S. Capitol. LOT subdivision subject: Women's suffrage in the United States - Activities in Washington, D.C. 1913-1917. George Grantham Ba... More

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman holding a flag labeled "Woman Suffrage" standing behind an angry hag labeled "Militant Lawlessness" with a Medusa-like face, wide-eyed and open mouth, rushing toward the viewer, carry... More

[Front page of the "Woman's journal and suffrage news" with the headli...

Pictures show General Rosalie Jones, Inez Milholland on a white horse, floats, and an aerial view of the parade. Illus. in: Woman's journal and suffrage news. Boston, Mass., 1913 Mar. 8, front page. National Am... More

Lucy Branham in Occoquan prison dress.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Lucy Branham speaking at outdoor meeting during the NWP "Prison Special" tour. Branham is above a large crowd, wearing prison dress and suffrage sash, with su... More

[Activist Phyllis Schafly wearing a "Stop ERA" badge, demonstrating wi...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Demonstrators opposed to ERA in front of the White House, WKL, 2/4/77." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: U... More

National Council of Women of the United States, report of its Tenth An...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

A society of patriotic ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina, British C...

Print shows satire of American women from Edenton, North Carolina, pledging to boycott English tea in response to Continental Congress resolution in 1774 to boycott English goods. Plate V. Attributed to P(hilip... 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

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

Motor City comics. Lenore Goldberg and her girl commandos

Print shows page from comic strip in which the girl commandos are subdued by the police after disrupting a beauty pagent; Lenore manages to evade capture after her clothing is torn off and she kicks a policeman... More

[President Gerald Ford greets a group of young women dressed as Southe...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford campaign trip thru the deep South La., Miss., Ala., & Fla., 9/25-27/76. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refere... More

[Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House]

Women holding signs against the Federal Equal Rights Amendment gathered outside the White House. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress gui... More

[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 age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

The ladies' gallery in the Senate chamber, Washington, D.C. The gentle...

Illustrations show (top) women observing congressional proceedings with varying degrees of interest; (bottom) African American men drowsing as white men observe legislators with interest. Illus. in: Frank Lesli... More

Mrs. R. B. Quay, of Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the members of the Na...

Title transcribed from item. 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... More

Cell in D.C. jail. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of the interior of a prison cell, with sink, toilet, and cot.

Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, Lucy Burns, three-quarter length, seated, facing forward, holding a newspaper in her lap in front of a prison cell, likely at Occoquan Wo... More

Van bringing suffrage prisoners to D.C. prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of people and cars outside large stone building.

Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

Mrs. Graze Knippen of Zion City holding up bottle of beer as she helps get rid of the beer. National Photo Co. Collection. Copyrighted by Press Illustrating Service, N.Y.

His daughter! And he thought she was "just a little girl" / W.E. Hill.

Illustration shows an elderly man standing at rear of a gathering around a young woman standing on a low platform, wearing a sash that states "Votes for Women", and holding a sign labeled "Freedom"; she is spea... More

The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

The feminine of Jekyll and Hyde / Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman holding a flag labeled "Woman Suffrage" standing behind an angry hag labeled "Militant Lawlessness" with a Medusa-like face, wide-eyed and open mouth, rushing toward the viewer, carry... More

A society of patriotic ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina, British C...

Print shows satire of American women from Edenton, North Carolina, pledging to boycott English tea in response to Continental Congress resolution in 1774 to boycott English goods. Plate V. Attributed to P(hilip... More

[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] / dessiné par C. Monnet ; gra...

Print shows the Assemblée nationale législative meeting in a large room crowded with French citizens, many of them armed with swords and pikes, one holding aloft a victim's head on a pike, another firing a rifl... More

The Ohio whiskey war - the ladies of Logan singing hymns in front of b...

After a sketch by S.B. Morton. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1874 Feb. 21, p. 392.

Eliz. Freeman enrout [sic] to Wash'n

Elizabeth Freeman of the New York State Suffrage Association, with horse and carriage, on her way to join the March 3, 1913 suffrage march in Washington, D.C.

[Woman marching with peace sign and U.S. flag, disarmament conference,...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - portrait of athlete, champion, sport, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kate Heffelfinger after her release from Occoquan Prison, ca. 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a woman escorting Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, outside near a car, after release from jail. Kate Heffelfinger, of Shamokin, Penn., was an art studen... More

Interior dining room D.C. prison

Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[African American children on way to PS204, 82nd Street and 15th Avenu...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Caption handwritten on verso. Date stamped on verso: Sep 13 1965. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

From pinafores to politics - by Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden Harriman)

This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her... More

Le roi arrivant a Paris avec sa famille, escorté de plus de trente mil...

Print shows the arrival in Paris of Louis XVI and his family accompanied by a large mob of citizens. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Aube... More

Taxation of women in Massachusetts

This pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vot... More

Program of the 5th Triennial Meeting of the National Council of Women ...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

National Council of Women of the United States, report of its Tenth An...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

Program of the 5th Triennial Meeting of the National Council of Women ...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

Biennial report of the National Council of Women of the United States ...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

Biennial report of the National Council of Women of the United States ...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

From pinafores to politics - by Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden Harriman)

This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her... More

From pinafores to politics - by Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden Harriman)

This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her... More

National Council of Women of the United States, report of its Tenth An...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

From pinafores to politics - by Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden Harriman)

This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her... More

Taxation of women in Massachusetts

This pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vot... More

National Council of Women of the United States, report of its Tenth An...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

Biennial report of the National Council of Women of the United States ...

The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More

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From pinafores to politics - by Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden Harriman)

This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her... More