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Mrs. Cyrus Mead [Dorothy M. Mead], of Vandalia, Ohio, state chairman of Ohio branch of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Spent considerable time at national headquarters in Washington, where she gained first hand knowledge of the Congressional situation.  Spoke before the United States Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage last December.

Mrs. Cyrus Mead [Dorothy M. Mead], of Vandalia, Ohio, state chairman o...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Dorothy M. Mead (Mrs. Cyrus Mead), seated in chair, facing right. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 10 (Mar. 16,... More

Dr. Mary Parsons, 1st woman physician to practice medicine south of Mason-Dixon Line.

Dr. Mary Parsons, 1st woman physician to practice medicine south of Ma...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, Dr. Mary Parsons, leaning against wall, facing forward, wearing outer garment over dress with brooch and eyeglasses.

Dean Emma M. [N.] Gillette - in honor of whose memory - services will be held in the Capitol of the U.S. on May 15 - at 3 P.M.

Dean Emma M. [N.] Gillette - in honor of whose memory - services will ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Dr. Emma N. Gillette, facing slightly to the right with head turned front toward camera, wearing cap and gown. Verso: "Retu... More

Mrs. Stephen Pell [Sarah Thompson Pell], 777 Madison Av, NYC, Finance Ch[air] of [National] Woman's Party

Mrs. Stephen Pell [Sarah Thompson Pell], 777 Madison Av, NYC, Finance ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Sarah Thompson Pell, facing right, wearing dark dress with white lace collar, necklace and earrings. Descriptive label on alt... More

Mrs. Charles de Loosey Oelrichs is one of the prominent members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Mrs. Oelrichs is one of the most beautiful young matrons in New York and Newport society.  She has recently become interested in suffrage and took an active part in the Dansante given by the Congressional Union at Marble House, Newport, [Rhode Island], Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont's beautiful summer home.

Mrs. Charles de Loosey Oelrichs is one of the prominent members of the...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Oval portrait of Mrs. Charles Deloosey Oelrichs [and daughter?] in formal gowns.

Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, of New York.  Member of National Advisory Council of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Graduate of Vassar College and of the New York Law University.

Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, of New York. Member of National Advi...

Title and photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of lawyer and suffrage activist Inez Milholland Boissevain, facing left and looking toward camera, wearing a sleeveless, low-c... More

[Mrs. Margaret Zane Cherdron, Utah, State Chairman for Woman's Party in Utah; Member National Executive Committee, Woman's Party.]

[Mrs. Margaret Zane Cherdron, Utah, State Chairman for Woman's Party i...

Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, face in profile turned to right, Margaret Zane Witcher Cherdron, wearing high-necked, lace-trimmed collar. Title transcribed from caption on identical print in same... More

Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party.  She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago.

Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-ch...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of Mary Bartelme, second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party and judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago, seated at paper-covere... More

Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman, N.Y. City Committee, C.U. [Congressional Union], 50 E. 42nd St., Room 1003

Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman, N.Y. City Committee, C.U. [Congression...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, seated and looking downward at book on lap, of Alice Carpenter, chairman of New York City Committee, Congressional Union, wearing v-n... More

Liberty and her Attendants - (Suffragette's Tableau) in Front of Treasury Bldg. March 3, 1913 - Washington, D.C.

Liberty and her Attendants - (Suffragette's Tableau) in Front of Treas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and girls in Greek costume in suffrage tableau in front of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. Central figure is dressed in toga as Liberty. On vers... More

Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing Ethel Smyth's Hymn of the Women before entering the Rotunda to deliver the petitions.

Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists who took part in Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession of May 9, 1914, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol (those... More

Mrs. George T. Odell, of Washington, D.C., vice-chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, is one of the delegates to the Womans' Party Convention.

Mrs. George T. Odell, of Washington, D.C., vice-chairman of the Legisl...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Mrs. George Talbot Odell, seated, gloved hands in lap, wearing dark fur-trimmed jacket with fur muff, and broad-brimmed hat with feather. Altern... More

Mrs. Janice Rector of Columbus, member Advisory Council of National Woman's Party, and member of Tennessee Advisory Committee

Mrs. Janice Rector of Columbus, member Advisory Council of National Wo...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Kenyon Hayden Rector, facing right, wearing hat and holding pocketbook under left arm, standing outdoors in front o... More

Mrs. Oscar F. Davisson of Dayton, Ohio, is one of the most recent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Mrs. Davisson is President of the Dayton and Montgomery County Woman Suffrage Association and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Woman Suffrage Association.

Mrs. Oscar F. Davisson of Dayton, Ohio, is one of the most recent memb...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Jesse Leech Davisson, facing left with head turned partly toward camera.

[Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way to Washington to present a petition to Congress Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted containing more than 500,000 signatures.]

[Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of group of smiling women and two children standing with banners on sidewalk. Banner on left: "We demand an amendment to the United States Constit... More

Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, California, member national advisory council of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage; vice chairman National Woman’s Party.

Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, California, member national advisory council of Co...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated in chair, Phoebe Apperson Hearst of California, facing left with head turned toward camera, right... More

Campaign in Oregon-- Margaret Fay Whittemore, Mary Gertrude Fendall, Pendleton, Oregon, Sept 23, '16

Campaign in Oregon-- Margaret Fay Whittemore, Mary Gertrude Fendall, P...

Title and date transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of man driving two women (Mary G. Fendall, left, and Margaret Whittemore, right) in car on street. Banner on car: "We Demand an Amendment to the U.S. Co... More

Miss Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, of Portland, Me., has been assigned to Wyoming as a preliminary worker in the Woman's Party campaign against President Wilson and national Democratic candidates.  She has worked as a reporter on the Portland Express, and recently acted as secretary to Mrs. August Belmont.

Miss Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, of Portland, Me., has been as...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, wearing straw hat, checked jacket, and white collared shirt. Schuyler was secretary to Alva Belmont (1853-1933).

Mrs. J.A.H. [Alison Turnbull] Hopkins' car in front of N.J. Headquarters, 17 W. Parls Street, Newark. Mrs. Morris B. Mead (South Orange), Chairman of 10 C.D. by car - Miss Agnes F. Campbell, organizer tying on banner.

Mrs. J.A.H. [Alison Turnbull] Hopkins' car in front of N.J. Headquarte...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mrs. Morris B. Mead (Left) of South Orange, N.J., and Miss Agnes F. Campbell (Right), organizer, tying suffrage banner ("We Demand An Amendment to the United ... More

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

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.

Miss Anne Martin, of Reno, Nevada, legislative chairman of the National Woman's Party on behalf of the national suffrage amendment.

Miss Anne Martin, of Reno, Nevada, legislative chairman of the Nationa...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, Anne Martin, facing forward, seated in chair, with body turned slightly to left, wearing a suit with open-collared bl... More

Mrs. Alexandra Shields, Born West Point, Ga., Home Amarillo, Texas.  On picket line July 4, 1917.

Mrs. Alexandra Shields, Born West Point, Ga., Home Amarillo, Texas. O...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mrs. Alexander Shields, with short hair and bare shoulders.

Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washington, ca. 1917-1918

Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washing...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jeanette Rankin, with hat, fur muff, and issue of The Suffragist, in storefront doorway with two unidentified women, who also hold copies of the paper.

Peaceful Picket - The great interest of people in the picket line - but no blocking of traffic until arrests began-- Feb. 1917.

Peaceful Picket - The great interest of people in the picket line - bu...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of crowd of people watching picketing women outside the gate of the White House, with passerbys on sidewalk (women, men, children). Photograph published in The S... More

Mary Gertrude Fendall, [of Maryland], and Mary Dubrow [of New Jersey].

Mary Gertrude Fendall, [of Maryland], and Mary Dubrow [of New Jersey].

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Mary Gertrude Fendall (left) and Mary Dubrow (right) standing outside what is likely National Woman's Party headquarters, holding betwe... More

Suffrage demonstration at Lafayette Statue (to get the last vote in the Senate) before June 4 1919

Suffrage demonstration at Lafayette Statue (to get the last vote in th...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of five National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Lucy Branham, center, is burning President Wilson's words. ... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GOV. SPROUL OF PENNSYLVANIA SIGNING SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GOV. SPROUL OF PENNSYLVANIA SIGNING SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

A group of people standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baggage for Prison Special - Jackson Place Hdqtrs on Lafayette Sq.
[Three National Woman's Party members with "Wage Earners" banner during the dedication ceremonies for the Alva E. Belmont House, 1922.]

[Three National Woman's Party members with "Wage Earners" banner durin...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women in white dresses, standing outside with two flags and banner that reads: "Wage Earners."

[Inez Milholland Memorial, Westport, N.Y., 1923]

[Inez Milholland Memorial, Westport, N.Y., 1923]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul and a group of young women in white costumes with headbands, standing at Inez Milholland's gravesite.

The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.

The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing President Grant sitting at the center of a large table, with several men clustered around, signing the 15th amendment granting that the right to vote cannot be denied on basis of race or color. Fr... More

Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

Women's Arguments Against Woman Suffrage

Suffragist's reply to anti-suffragist "official paper" read at New York Senate hearings on suffrage

Mother Sexton - Early photography, Public domain image

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 members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Miss Kellar [Keller] is known to all Americans for her marvelous intellectual and educational accomplishments, in spite of the handicap imposed upon her by her deafness and blindness.  Not so well known however is her strong espousal of the suffrage cause and the sincere support which she has given to the work of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage.

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 speaking on Militant Suffrage Movement at Cooper Union

League of self-supporting women meeting notice, Anne Cobden Sanderson ...

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[Alice Paul and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis holding a conference, Pauline Floyd, sec., at 14 Jackson Place]

[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

[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. Street - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson, N. Carolina St. Chrmn.

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

Procession Summer 1913. Delegation Coming in from Hyattsville to present petition from all parts of the U.S.

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, 1913, inaugural suffrage procession, Washington, D.C.]

[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

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

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE

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Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, Grand Marshal of the procession organized by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage which on May 9th, 1914 marched to the Capitol to present resolutions gathered in all parts of the United States calling on Congress to take favorable action on the National Woman Suffrage Amendment.

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], Jan. 11, 1914, at Mrs. [Elizabeth T.] Kent's

[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 the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Mrs. Beard is the wife of Professor Charles Beard of Columbia University and is joint author with him of his recent book on American Political History.

Mrs. Mary Beard of New York is a member of the Executive Committee of ...

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Mrs. Sara Bard Field, of San Francisco, is one of the most eloquent and gifted speakers of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party.  She is a kinswoman of Eugene Field, the well known poet.

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 Party, and a member of the committee to help raise funds to bring an organizer to Iowa for a month or six weeks.

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 offices of The Suffragist, the weekly journal published by the Congressional Union and National Woman's Party from 1913 to 1921.]

[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 Director of Equal Franchise Lg. [League] of Pennsa [Pennsylvania]

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 Woman's Suffrage, to Appeal the Voting Women of the West [with inset portrait of Alice Paul]

[Map of] Route of Envoys Sent from East by the Congressional Union for...

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Arrival of the "Flying Squadron" at Colorado Springs, Colo[rado]. "Suffrage Special"

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

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 Party Picket Line.

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 [1917] /

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

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 Hopkins], N.J., Mrs. John Winters Brannan [Eunice Dana Brannan], N.Y.

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., Alice Paul, N.J.

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 campaign for ratification of the suffrage amendment is being conducted, photographed on the day that Parley P. Christensen, presidential nominee for the new Farmer-Labor Party addressed a mass meeting, urging immediate ratification. Left to right: Rankin Smith, Central Trades and Labor Council; Jim F. Nicholson, Business Manager of the Machinist; W.C. Birthright, Secretary of the Tenn. Federation of Labor; Mrs. Anne Calvert Neely, Mississippi state chairman of the National Woman's Party; W.M. Mitchell; Mrs. Mabel Reber, of New York; Mrs. Walter C. Jackson of Murfreesboro; Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, of Wilmington, Delaware, member of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Party; Parley P. Christensen, Presidential candidate of the Farmer-Labor Party; Miss Sue White, of Nashville, Tennessee state chairman of the Woman's Party; W.M. Fox, president of the Trades and Labor Council; Miss Mary Winsor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, member of the Advisory Council of the Woman's Party; Archie Craig; Charles P. Sweeney.

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, Philadelphia., Jane Addams. At time statue was placed in capitol.

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 the dedication ceremonies for the Alva E. Belmont House, 1922.]

[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]

[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 dedication ceremonies for the Alva E. Belmont House, 1922.]

[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 student of George Washington University

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 Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, Jan. 1933.

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

[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with other suffrage pageant participants standing in background in front of the Treasury Building, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.]

[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

Men's League for Women's Suffrage: Constitution and Charter Members

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

Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards District

Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards Distri...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap. Caption on cropped version of same ima... More

Report of the National Women Suffrage Convention held at Washington, February 14, 1900

Report of the National Women Suffrage Convention held at Washington, F...

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Votes For Women New York State Woman Suffrage Association membership card
Mrs. Evelyn P. Coe, Sec[retary], Massachusetts[achusetts] Branch, C[ongressional] U[nion].

Mrs. Evelyn P. Coe, Sec[retary], Massachusetts[achusetts] Branch, C[on...

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Miss Clara Louise Rowe, of Syracuse, N.Y., campaigned in the New York state referendum and was an organizer for the Women's Political Union.  She has assisted in legislative work at the national headquarters; worked in Delaware and then in Montana, where she organized most of the countries.  She is an excellent speaker.

Miss Clara Louise Rowe, of Syracuse, N.Y., campaigned in the New York ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Clara L. Rowe, wearing broad-brimmed hat and square-necked satin dress with ruffle trim.

Mrs. Gertrude Hunter of Minnesota is one of the national organizers of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Mrs. Hunter was formerly Secretary of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association ands is the founder of the Minneapolis Women Workers Suffrage Club.

Mrs. Gertrude Hunter of Minnesota is one of the national organizers of...

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Gertrude Hunter, facing slightly toward the left with head turned to camera, wearing eye glasses (pince-nez) and dress with sheer sleeves ... More

Miss Emily K. Perry, Washington DC

Miss Emily K. Perry, Washington DC

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Mrs. Nina E. Allender., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Mrs. Nina E. Allender., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Nina E. Allender, studio portrait, head and shoulders. The caption on an alternate photograph in the same folder reads: Mrs. Nina E. Allender of Washington, D.C., formerly ... More

Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, National Summer Headquarters, 128 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, R. I.

Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, National Summer Headquarters...

Photograph shows group portrait of suffragettes standing outside in front of headquarters. Copyright 1914 by Ernst & Thuot, Newport, R. I. Copyright registration title: Congressional union for woman's suffrage,... More

At Mrs. [Alva]] Belmont's [house in] Newport, RI, 1914.

At Mrs. [Alva]] Belmont's [house in] Newport, RI, 1914.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and men on steps leading up to Marble House, Alva Belmont's estate in Newport, RI.

Woman's Party Booth at San Francisco Exposition Spring 1915. L-R, Front - 1 Mrs. May Wright Sewall, 2 Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria, Virginia), Rear - 3 Miss Anita Whitney (Cal.), 4 Mrs. Mary Bear, 5 Miss Vivian Pierce, 6 Miss Margaret Whittemore

Woman's Party Booth at San Francisco Exposition Spring 1915. L-R, Fron...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Group indoor photograph of National Woman's Party members wearing hats and suffrage sashes. Left to right: (front, seated) May Wright Sewall, Kate Waller Barrett, (rear, st... More

Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Cartoonist, Nat[ional] Woman's P[ar]ty

Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Cartoonist, Nat[ional] Woman's P[ar]ty

Summary: Informal portrait, Nina E. Allender, full-length, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding a cartoon sketch in her lap. Title and information transcribed from item. Photograp... More

Meeting at Coffee House, New York. Front row - L-R Mrs. Wm Colt, N.Y., Mrs. Wm Kent, Cal., Mrs. John Rogers, N.Y., Lucy Burns (back of Mrs. Rogers), N.Y., Miss Hazel MacKaye, Massachusetts. (with Suffragist)

Meeting at Coffee House, New York. Front row - L-R Mrs. Wm Colt, N.Y.,...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Advisory Council leaving the Peg Woffington Coffee House in New York City. Left to right (front row): Elizabeth Colt, E... More

Mrs. Robert Adamson, wife of Fire Commissioner of N.Y. City. She will attend C[ongressional] U[nion] conference Sat. and speak at luncheon in honor of departing [suffrage] envoys.

Mrs. Robert Adamson, wife of Fire Commissioner of N.Y. City. She will ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Ethel M. Adamson, with clasped hands. The caption on a smaller duplicate print of the same image located in the same folder reads: "Mr... More

Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Prohibition Party convention that endorsed a plank advocating a suffrage amendment, July 1916]

Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Proh...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elsie Hill, standing in the back seat of an automobile that is parked at curb, speaking to a crowd of people (mostly men} standing on a sidewalk, on a street ... More

Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse of Portland, Me., Chairman of the Maine Branch of the National Woman's Party.

Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse of Portland, Me., Chairman of the Maine B...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, facing left, standing by window and table with container of flowers, wearing loosely flow... More

[Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916]

[Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of (mostly female) suffrage supporters demonstrating with signs addressed to President Woodrow Wilson while assembled along a street in Chicago. S... More

Mrs. Sophie Meredith, chairman of Virginia Branch N.W.P.

Mrs. Sophie Meredith, chairman of Virginia Branch N.W.P.

Title and information transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 5 (June 1920): n.p. Summary: Formal portrait, Sophie G. Meredith, seated, half-length, facing f... More

N[ew] J[ersey] Headquarters C[ongressional] U[nion].

N[ew] J[ersey] Headquarters C[ongressional] U[nion].

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women preparing roadster (mostly outside image) in front of the New Jersey headquarters for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. A sign on the side of ... More

Mrs. Edna S. Latimer, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for the Woman's Party, is campaigning in Nevada against President Wilson and national Democratic candidates.  She campaigned for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in Kansas two years ago

Mrs. Edna S. Latimer, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for the Wo...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half length portrait of Edna S. Latimer, facing camera, in hat, with brooch.

Campaign in Illinois. One of the big Woman's Party street banners being swung into place in Chicago by Miss Virginia Arnold, of Washington, national executive secretary of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  Democratic protest led to the removal of several of the banners after the necessary permission of owners of buildings had been secured and the street signs hung.

Campaign in Illinois. One of the big Woman's Party street banners bein...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of banner hanging from building. Banner: "Women voters, you have the vote. Get it for all American women. Vote against Wilson. He opposes national woman suffrage... More

Mrs. George Elder Adams, of New York, who took part in the picketing of the White House by members of the Woman's Party.

Mrs. George Elder Adams, of New York, who took part in the picketing o...

Summary: Studio portrait, Mrs. George Elder Adams of New York, in hat and fur stole, standing with a copy of the newsletter The Suffragist in her hands. Title transcribed from item.

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas at right waiting for mobs to attack pickets so she can order out new banners.

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Julia Hurlbut leading procession of (two) suffragists down city sidewalk, both suffragists wear suffrage sashes and hold aloft suffrage banners, Hurlbut holds... More

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

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

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.

Police arresting party demonstrators outside Senate Office Building, Oct. 1918.

Police arresting party demonstrators outside Senate Office Building, O...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of policemen confronting a line of National Woman's Party pickets on Constitution Avenue. The suffragists wear sashes and carry suffrage banners. Women near the ... More

Police arresting party picketers outside White House, August 1918.

Police arresting party picketers outside White House, August 1918.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party pickets (holding suffrage banners) in front of the White House gates being escorted to car by policeman, while spectators, including a ... More

Party watchfires burn outside White House, Jan. 1919.

Party watchfires burn outside White House, Jan. 1919.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party watchfire demonstrators standing with banners and fire in urn in front of White House. One banner reads, "President Wilson is deceiving... More

Trusted with kids, not with a vote Chandrai Jackson-Saunders has been teaching and counseling students in D.C. public schools for 17 years. She has lived in Washington, D.C. all her life. She pays federal taxes. Yet, like all 600,000 D.C. residents, Chandrai is denied a vote in Congress / / Bryan Potter.

Trusted with kids, not with a vote Chandrai Jackson-Saunders has been ...

Digital political poster for voting rights with a teacher reading to three children. Artist's name and date from file header. Gift; DC Vote; 2006; (DLC/PP-2008:021)

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Frederick W. Baldwin, April 17, 1913
Mrs. Cobden Sanderson will speak on Militant Suffrage Movement, Cooper Union, under auspices of the League of Self-Supporting Women and Collegiate Suffrage League

Mrs. Cobden Sanderson will speak on Militant Suffrage Movement, Cooper...

Inside: Advertisement for suffrage novel, The Convert, by Elizabeth Robins with review by Carrie Chapman Catt; handwritten across the top: "Our price $1.25. Discount goes to the College League. Order copies of ... More

Copy of preamble and protest ... Brooklyn Auxiliary, New York State association opposed to the extension of suffrage to women. [1894].

Copy of preamble and protest ... Brooklyn Auxiliary, New York State as...

Anti-suffragists. 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 130, Folder 13a.

Miss Alice Park, California. National Woman Party

Miss Alice Park, California. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, Alice Park, seated outside, facing slightly to the left, wearing eyeglasses and lace-collared blouse or dress.

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