Miss Virginia Arnold, of North Carolina, is one of the organizers for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. She was a student at George Washington University and at Columbia University prior to engaging in suffrage work. She is at present National Executive Secretary of the Congressional Union.

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Item Title

Miss Virginia Arnold, of North Carolina, is one of the organizers for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. She was a student at George Washington University and at Columbia University prior to engaging in suffrage work. She is at present National Executive Secretary of the Congressional Union.

Author/Creator

Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Created/Published

[ca. 1916

Notes

Summary: Three-quarter-length portrait of Virginia Arnold of North Carolina, facing right, looking toward camera, in hat and coat holding pocketbook.
Title transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10.
Photograph published in Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), between pages 344 and 345.
According to the lists of officers published periodically in issues of The Suffragist, Arnold served as national executive secretary of the Congressional Union (later National Woman's Party) from 1916 to 1918.
Virginia Arnold, of North Carolina, was a student at George Washington and Columbia Univs. She was a school teacher, later organizer and executive secretary of the N.W.P. in Washington, D.C. Served three days June, 1917, with first pickets of White House sentenced to jail terms. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354.
The street address for the photographer, Harris & Ewing, is listed on the verso as 1311 F Street N.W.

Subjects

United States--North Carolina--
Arnold, Virginia
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.)
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--North Carolina
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 3.5 x 5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Arnold, Virginia

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 147008
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.147008