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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Phila[delphia] [Dora Lewis]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1910
Notes
Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Dora Kelly Lewis, facing front, in hat decorated with flowers.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Dora Lewis was from a prominent Philadelphia family. She held a series of high offices in the National Woman's Party. She was arrested several times for suffrage actions. She served three days in jail for picketing in July 1917; was arrested Nov. 10, 1917 and sentenced to 60 days; was arrested at the Lafayette Square meeting in August 1918, and sentenced to 15 days; and was arrested during the watchfire demonstrations of January 1919, and sentenced to five days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 364.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 25 (June 28, 1919): 9. Captioned: "Mrs. Lawrence Lewis." Illustration for "What It Has Cost" story, on the finances of the National Woman's Party campaign for woman suffrage.
Subjects
United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
United States--District of Columbia--Washington
National Woman's Party
Women--Suffrage--United States
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Lewis, Dora Kelly, b. 1862
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: Lewis, Dora
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 153014
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.153014