Miss Minnie Hennessy, of Ct. [Connecticut], sentenced to six months at Occoquan Workhouse for picketing with a suffrage banner at the gates of the White House.

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Item Title

Miss Minnie Hennessy, of Ct. [Connecticut], sentenced to six months at Occoquan Workhouse for picketing with a suffrage banner at the gates of the White House.

Author/Creator

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

Created/Published

[ca. 1913

Notes

Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Minnie Hennessy of Connecticut, standing outdoors with wrought-iron fence in background, wearing wide-brimmed hat, gloves, two-piece suit with long skirt, high-collared blouse, and tricolor (purple, white, gold) sash.
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image.
Minnie Hennesey of Hartford, Conn., was a self-supporting business woman. She was arrested for picketing the White House Oct. 6, 1917, and her sentence was suspended. Rearrested Oct. 8, 1917, she was sentenced to 6 months in prison. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361.

Subjects

United States--Connecticut--
Hennessy, Minnie
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
Picketing
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:152, Folder: Hennessy, Minnie

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 152004
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.152004