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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Abby Scott Baker.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1916]
Notes
Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., sitting at a desk, facing left, and reading, with papers, books, and a typewriter nearby.
Title supplied by Library of Congress staff.
Abby Scott Baker served in various leadership positions with the Congressional Union and later National Woman's Party, including treasurer, press chairman, political chairman, and member of the National Executive Committee. She was arrested for picketing the White House and served a sentence in Occoquan in September 1917. Sources: Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355, and lists of officers published periodically in issues of The Suffragist.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 38 (Sept. 16, 1916): 7.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
Baker, Abby Scott, 1871-1944
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 4.5 x 6.25 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Baker, Abby Scott
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 147014
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.147014