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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss Hazel Hunkins of Montana on the picket line.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Press Bureau, Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1917]
Notes
Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, face turned slightly to left in partial profile, Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, picketing outside in front of suffrage banner (partially obscured banner reading "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?"), wearing fur-collared coat, short-brimmed hat with cloth trim, and tricolor suffrage sash across chest.
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image.
Hazel Hunkins of Billings, Mont., was a graduate of Vassar College and later a professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri. She joined the suffrage movement as an organizer for the NWP and was active in all picket campaigns. She was sentenced to 15 days in jail for participation in a Lafayette Square meeting at which NWP activists were arrested as they spoke. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 362.
Subjects
United States--Montana--Billings
Hunkins-Hallinan, Hazel
Women--Suffrage--Montana
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
National Woman's Party--Montana Branch
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: Hunkins, Hazel
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 152010
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.152010