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Item Title
Berthe Arnold.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[1919 Jan.?]
Notes
Summary: Informal, full-length portrait of Berthe Arnold of Colorado Springs, Colorado, wearing a hat and fur-trimmed coat with a bouquet of flowers pinned on the front, looking downward at an urn containing a burning "watchfire" maintained in front of National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Title transcribed from item. Other information obtained from verso of duplicate print in same folder.
Photograph published in Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), between pages 274 and 275.
Berthe Arnold, of Colorado Springs, Colo., the daughter of a prominent physician, was educated at Colorado State University and a student of music in Philadelphia. She worked as a kindergarten teacher and was a member of the DAR. Arrested January 1919, watchfire demonstration, sentenced to five days in District Jail. 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.
Subjects
United States--Colorado--Colorado Springs
Arnold, Berthe
National Woman's Party--Buildings--1910-1920
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Colorado
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920
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: Arnold, Berthe
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 147007
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.147007