Elizabeth Stuyvesant, State Organizer, National Woman's Party, her great-grandfather died in the Revolution, her grandfather in the Civil War, and her brother is fighting in France. Five years of social work in New York City brought her to the determination to join the fight for woman's political liberty--Suffrage.

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Item Title

Elizabeth Stuyvesant, State Organizer, National Woman's Party, her great-grandfather died in the Revolution, her grandfather in the Civil War, and her brother is fighting in France. Five years of social work in New York City brought her to the determination to join the fight for woman's political liberty--Suffrage.

Created/Published

[1914

Notes

Summary: Head portrait of Elizabeth Stuyvesant, with ribbon in her hair. Shoulders are sketched in with pencil.
Title transcribed from item.
Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York City, formerly of Cincinnati, was a professional dancer. She was active in settlement work and in the campaign for birth control. On July 4, 1917, she was arrested while picketing the White House for suffrage and sentenced to three days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 368.

Subjects

United States--New York--New York
Stuyvesant, Elizabeth
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--New York (N.Y.)
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 5 x 6.5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:157, Folder: Stuyvesant, Elizabeth

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 157007
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.157007