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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Mrs. Sarah Colvin of St. Paul, newly elected National chairman of the Woman's Party, who participated in all the suffrage demonstrations. Picture taken during 1918 picketing in front [of] Jackson Place Headquarters on Lafayette Square.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
1918
Notes
Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Sarah T. Colvin of St. Paul, Minnesota, standing in front of National Woman’s Party headquarters, Jackson Place, wearing a long suit and hat and carrying pocketbook and rolled papers or banner, under her left arm.
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item.
Mrs. Sarah Tarleton Colvin, of St. Paul, Minn., was a member of the well known Tarleton family of Alabama. Her husband, Dr. A. R. Colvin, was a major in the Army, and acting surgical chief at Fort McHenry during World War I. She was a graduate nurse of the Johns Hopkins training school, and worked as a Red Cross nurse in the United States during the war. She was the Minnesota state chairman of the NWP, and a member of the "Prison Special" nationwide tour of speakers in Feb-Mar 1919. She was arrested in watchfire demonstrations Jan. 1919 and sentenced to two terms of five days each. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 357.
Subjects
United States--Minnesota--St. Paul
Women--Suffrage--Minnesota
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Colvin, Sarah Tarleton
Picketing
National Woman's Party--Buildings--1910-1920
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5.25 x 7 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:149, Folder: Colvin, Sarah T.
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 149010
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.149010