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Item Title
Mrs. H. W. Wiley [Anna Kelton Wiley] and John and Harvey [Wiley]. Chairman of the Memorial Committee at the services in honor of Dean Emma Gillett at the United States Capitol, Sunday, May 15 [1927].
Author/Creator
Photographer: Underwood & Underwood, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1920]
Notes
Summary: Studio portrait of Anna Kelton Wiley, seated, in embroidered apron, with sons John Preston Wiley (1914-1998) and Harvey W. Wiley, Jr. (1912-1951), in sailor suits.
Title transcribed from item.
Anna Kelton Wiley was married to pure food and drugs expert Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley (1844-1930). Washington College of Law dean Emma M. Gillett (b. 1852), chair of the Legal Branch of the National Woman's Party and president of the Woman's Bar Association [1921], died 23 Jan. 1927.
Anna Kelton Wiley (Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley) of Washington, D.C., was a member of the NWP national advisory council. She was active in lobbying, political work, and picketing for the NWP. She was arrested Nov. 10, 1917, and sentenced to 15 days in District Jail; she appealed her case and it was later upheld by a higher court. Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 370.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
Wiley, Anna Kelton, 1877-1964
National Woman's Party
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Suffragists--United States--1920-1930
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 8 x 10 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:158, Folder: Wiley, Anna Kelton
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 158009
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.158009