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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Elizabeth Kalb, National Dept.--Nat'l Literature Dep't.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1913
Notes
Summary: Half-length portrait of Elizabeth Green Kalb, facing forward, in embroidered v-neck.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Elizabeth Green Kalb of Houston, Texas, was a graduate of Rice Institute, 1916, and a student at the Univ. of Chicago. She won the Carnegie Prize in Texas state intercollegiate oratory contest in 1915. In 1918 she became an active worked for the NWP, taking part in the U.S. Capitol picket. She was arrested during watchfire demonstration January 1919 and sentenced to five days in District Jail. She was in charge of the literature and library dept. of the NWP at the NWP National Headquarters. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 363).
Subjects
United States--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Kalb, Elizabeth Green
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:153, Folder: Kalb, Elizabeth Green
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 153001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.153001