Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

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Item Title

Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for the National Woman's Party in Oregon. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.

Author/Creator

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

Created/Published

[ca. 1916

Notes

Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mary Gertrude Fendall, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing wide-brimmed hat with dark satin trim, light, double-collared dress or blouse with locket.
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item.
Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10.
Mary Gertrude Fendall of Baltimore, Md., campaigned for the NWP in the West in 1916 and was national treasurer of the NWP June 1917 to December 1919. She was arrested and sentenced to three days in jail, January 1919, for applauding in court. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 358.

Subjects

United States--Maryland--Baltimore
United States--Oregon--
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Fendall, Mary Gertrude
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Maryland
National Woman's Party
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:150, Folder: Fendall, Mary Gertrude

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 150011
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.150011