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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Doris Stevens, Legislative Chairman, [National Woman's Party]
Created/Published
[ca. 1919]
Notes
Summary: Portrait of Doris Stevens, seated, hands on knee, facing camera, wearing broad-brimmed hat.
Back of print is stamped "May 25 1919". Identifications of Stevens as "Legislative Chairman" and as "Organization Chairman" are crossed out, as is the designation of her city of residence [and possible place portrait was photographed] "New York City."
Title transcribed from item.
Doris Stevens of Omaha, Neb., and later, New York City, held several offices in the NWP. She was arrested for picketing July 14, 1917, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse, but was pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson after three days. She was arrested again in New York March 1919 during picket demonstration at the Metropolitan Opera House. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 368.
Subjects
United States--New York--New York
Stevens, Doris, 1892-1963
National Woman's Party
Women--Suffrage--New York (N.Y.)
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:157, Folder: Stevens, Doris
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 157005
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.157005