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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss Gertrude Crocker of Illinois, Treasurer of National Woman's Party.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1916]
Notes
Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Gertrude Crocker of Illinois, wearing cotton v-neck dress or blouse with broad collar, lace trim, eyelet pattern, and small circular brooch.
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item.
Gertrude Crocker of Washington, D.C., formerly of Illinois, educated at Vassar College and Univ. of Chicago. National treasurer of the NWP in 1916; government worker, 1917. Served three jail sentences; 30 days for picketing in 1917; 10 days at Occoquan Workhouse for picketing in 1917 and three days in District Jail for watchfire demonstration Jan. 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 357.
Subjects
United States--Illinois--
Women--Suffrage--Illinois
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--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:149, Folder: Crocker, Gertrude L.
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 149012
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.149012