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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Iris Calderhead, daughter of former Representative Calderhead and wife of John Brisben Walker, of Colorado. Miss Calderhead is a graduate of the university of Kansas, and Vermont. Gave up teaching literature in Wichita (Kansas) High School to organize for the National Woman's Party, and was one of the group arrested for picketing the White House with suffrage banners.
Created/Published
[ca. 1913
Notes
Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Iris Calderhead (daughter of former Representative Calderhead and wife of John Brisban Walker of Colorado), facing right with head turned toward camera, with braided hair, wearing v-necked blouse with decorative trim, against dark background.
Title transcribed from item.
Similar image from same photo shoot published in The Suffragist, 5, (Feb. 24, 1917): 9 and The Suffragist, 5, no. 61 (Mar. 24, 1917): 9.
Iris Calderhead (Mrs. John Brisban Walker], of Marysville, Kans., and later Denver, Colo., was a graduate of the Univ. of Kansas and student at Bryn Mawr. She abandoned school teaching to work for suffrage, and became an organizer and speaker for the NWP. She was arrested July 4, 1917, for picketing and served three days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 369.
Subjects
United States--Colorado--
Calderhead, Iris
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Colorado
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 3 x 5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:149, Folder: Calderhead, Iris
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 149001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.149001