Mrs. R. B. Quay, of Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the members of the National Woman's Party who has served a thirty day sentence at the government jail and workhouse at Washington for picketing the White House gates with a suffrage banner.

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Item Title

Mrs. R. B. Quay, of Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the members of the National Woman's Party who has served a thirty day sentence at the government jail and workhouse at Washington for picketing the White House gates with a suffrage banner.

Created/Published

[ca. 1910

Notes

Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mrs. R. B. (Minnie) Quay.
Title transcribed from item.
Minnie Quay of Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested Nov. 10, 1917, while picketing the White House in Washington, D.C., and sentenced to 30 days in District Jail, she was sent instead to Occoquan Workhouse and was there during the "Night of Terror" Nov. 15, 1917, during which guards used violence towards imprisoned protestors. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 366.

Subjects

United States--Utah--Salt Lake City
National Woman's Party
Women--Suffrage--Utah
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Quay, Minnie
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:156, Folder: Quay, Mrs. R. B.

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 156006
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.156006