Organizing the First Convention of Women Voters Since Suffrage Passed. Officers of the National Woman's Party in active charge of preparations for the convention of their members which will decide the future of the organization, to meet in Washington, February 15-19, 1921, left to right: Miss Mabel Vernon, of Wilmington, Del., chairman of convention delegates; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, chairman of the suffrage memorial committee; Alice Paul, national chairman of the Party; Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel of Washington, D.C., press chairman; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., political chairman; Miss Anita Pollitzer, program chairman.

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Organizing the First Convention of Women Voters Since Suffrage Passed. Officers of the National Woman's Party in active charge of preparations for the convention of their members which will decide the future of the organization, to meet in Washington, February 15-19, 1921, left to right: Miss Mabel Vernon, of Wilmington, Del., chairman of convention delegates; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, chairman of the suffrage memorial committee; Alice Paul, national chairman of the Party; Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel of Washington, D.C., press chairman; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., political chairman; Miss Anita Pollitzer, program chairman.

Author/Creator

Photographer: Harris & Ewing

Created/Published

[1921 Feb.]

Notes

Summary: Six National Woman's Party members gathered around a desk at National Woman's Party headquarters. Left to right: Mabel Vernon, Dora Lewis, Alice Paul (seated), Florence Brewer Boeckel, Abby Scott Baker, and Anita Pollitzer.
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Subjects

United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
Pollitzer, Anita, 1894-1975
Lewis, Dora Kelly, b. 1862
Vernon, Mabel, 1883-1975
Baker, Abby Scott, 1871-1944
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, b. 1885
Women--Suffrage--United States
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 7 x 10 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: National Woman's Party Convention, February 1921

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 160007
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160007