Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York, the first delegate to the convention of the National Woman's Party to arrive at Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, Miss Ainge is holding the New York state banner which will be carried by New York's delegation of 68 women at the convention meeting in Washington February 15th-18th.

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Item Title

Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York, the first delegate to the convention of the National Woman's Party to arrive at Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, Miss Ainge is holding the New York state banner which will be carried by New York's delegation of 68 women at the convention meeting in Washington February 15th-18th.

Author/Creator

Photographer: National Photo Co., Washington, D.C.

Created/Published

[1921 Feb.]

Notes

Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Edith Ainge of Jamestown, New York, standing in front of National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, D.C., wearing a suit and hat and holding across her body a flag with a modified version of the New York State seal with the motto "Excelsior" ("Ever Upward").
Title and information transcribed from item.
A caption on an alternate photograph in the same folder reads: "Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, N.Y., who served sixty days in the government jail and workhouse for picketing the White House with a suffrage banner."
Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, N.Y., native of England, served five jail sentences. Sentenced 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse for picketing Sept. 1917, 15 days in Aug 1918, Lafayette Square meeting, and three short terms in District Jail in Jan. 1919, watchfire demonstrations. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354.

Subjects

United States--New York--Jamestown
Ainge, Edith
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Suffragists--United States--1920-1930
Women--Suffrage--New York (State)
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 6.5 x 8.5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Ainge, Edith

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

mnwp 147004
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.147004