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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence.
Created/Published
[between 1917 Sept. and 1919 Feb. 15]
Notes
Summary: Pauline Adams, three-quarter-length portrait, sitting at a table in prison clothes with right arm raised holding a cup.
Title transcribed from item.
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.
Subjects
United States--Virginia--Norfolk
Adams, Pauline, 1874-1957
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Virginia
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Adams, Pauline
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 147002
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.147002