Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

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Item Title

Nell Mercer, Norfolk, Virginia

Created/Published

[ca. 1910

Notes

Summary: Half-length portrait of Nell Mercer, seated, with painted backdrop, wearing broad-collared suit and hat with leaves and berries. Printed as a picture postcard.
Title transcribed from item.
Nell Mercer of Norfolk, Virg., was a member of the Norfolk branch of the NWP. She was a business woman. In February 1919, she was arrested for participation in the final watchfire demonstration and sentenced to five days in the District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 365.

Subjects

United States--Virginia--Norfolk
Mercer, Nell
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Virginia
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: postcard; 3.5 x 5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:154, Folder: Mercer, Nell

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 154013
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.154013