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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Rose Winslow of New York; daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in Pennsylvania. She worked in textile mills from the age of eleven to nineteen, until tuberculosis forced her to cease work altogether for two years. She has done factory inspection and trade union organization for women in the Consumers' League and Women's Trade Union League. Spent last three years, when able to work, campaigning for women suffrage. Took part in anti-Democratic campaign of California with Lucy Burns. Spokeswoman in working women's deputation to President Wilson, February, 1914.
Created/Published
[ca. 1916]
Notes
Summary: Half-length portrait of Rose Winslow (born Ruza Wenclawska, Poland], wearing dark jumper and white blouse, with dark tam.
Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 42 (Oct. 14, 1916): 5, and The Suffragist, 5, no. 91 (Oct. 20, 1917): cover.
Title transcribed from item.
Rose Winslow of New York City was born in Poland and worked in industry in Pennsylvania before joining the western suffrage campaign of the NWP in 1916. She was arrested Oct. 15, 1917, and sentenced to 7 months in District Jail. She helped to lead the hunger strikes of the NWP while imprisoned. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 370.
Subjects
United States--New York--New York
Winslow, Rose
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Labor--Unions--Organizing
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 4 x 6 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:158, Folder: Winslow, Rose
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 158010
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.158010