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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss Elsie M. Hill, of Conn[ecticut], a Congressional Union picket at the gate of the White House.
Created/Published
[ca. 1917]
Notes
Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elsie M. Hill, taken outdoors on picket line, wearing wide-brimmed hat with fur trim, coat, fur stole, and tricolor (purple, white, gold) sash.
Title transcribed from image.
Elsie Hill, of Norwalk, Conn., was the daughter of Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill of Connecticut. She was a graduate of Vassar College and taught French in a District of Columbia high school. She was a member of the executive committee of the Congressional Union, 1914-15, and later national organizer for the NWP. She was sentenced August 1918 to 15 days in District Jail for speaking at Lafayette Square meeting; in February 1919, she was sentenced to 8 days in Boston for participation in the "welcome" demonstration of President Woodrow Wilson. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361.
Subjects
United States--Connecticut--
Hill, Elsie M. (Elsie Mary), b. 1883
Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Picketing
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 4 x 6 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:152, Folder: Hill, Elsie M.
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 152005
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.152005