Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

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Item Title

Margaret Whittemore campaigning in Oregon in white on platform.

Created/Published

[1914]

Notes

Summary: Photograph of Margaret Whittemore (on left, in white dress) and others on platform in front of large female audience (some seated, some standing or departing) at outdoor meeting, trees in background.
Title transcribed from item.
Margaret Fay Whittemore of Detroit, Michigan, was of Quaker heritage and the daughter of one of the leading patent attorneys of the United States. She started her suffrage work in Michigan and became a Congressional Union organizer in 1914. She was arrested picketing July 4, 1917 and imprisoned three days; in January 1919 she served 24 hours in jail for applauding in court. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 370.
Margaret Whittemore was Congressional Union-NWP organizer for the election campaigns for Washington state in 1914 and 1916.

Subjects

United States--Oregon--
United States--Washington--
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.)
Whittemore, Margaret
National Woman's Party
Women--Suffrage--Oregon
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 6 x 7 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:159, Folder: Campaign of 1914

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 159015
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.159015