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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
A group of young members of the National Woman's Party before the Capitol. They are about to invade the offices of the senators and congressmen from their states, to ask them to vote for Equal Rights. In the foreground is Miss Anita Pollitzer, secretary of the National Woman's Party, instructing the committee on the method of approach. Left to right: Blanche Alsop, Virginia; Heath Jones, Delaware; Maud Younger, California, legislative Chairman of the Woman's Party; Mrs. Legare Obear, Georgia; Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews, Mississippi; Mrs. Anne Archbold, Maine; Miss Wilma Henderson, Massachusetts; Mrs. Emma Brown, Maryland; Mrs. Rowena Dashwood Graves, Colorado.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Edmonston, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1923]
Notes
Summary: Group of National Woman's Party members assembled in front of the United States Capitol.
Title transcribed from item.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
United States Capitol--Washington (D.C.)
Pollitzer, Anita, 1894-1975
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Younger, Maud
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 1894-1988
National Woman's Party
Lobbying
Alsop, Blanche
Jones, Heath
Henderson, Wilma
Brown, Emma
Graves, Rowena Dashwood
Obear, Legare Hill, d. 1932
Archbold, Anne
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 8 x 10 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Lobbying the Equal Rights Amendment
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 160003
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160003