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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Section of Working Women's Picket --Feb. 17 [18], 1917
Created/Published
1917 Feb. 17 [18]
Notes
Summary: Photograph of four members of contingent of wage-earning women pickets, walking in suffrage procession on city sidewalk. They wear coats, hats, and suffrage sashes, and carry suffrage banners. Others similarly clad look on with banners from sidelines in background.
Title transcribed from item. Editorial insertion of date derived by Library of Congress staff.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. ? (Feb. 24, 1917): 5, caption: "Wage-Earners Marching to the White House Gates" and The Suffragist, 5, no. 61 (Mar. 24, 1917]: 5 (with same caption, for story "Labor Day on the Picket Line"). According to the Feb. 24, 1917 story, this picketing of the White House by a "long picket line of labor" took place "last Sunday, February 18." (5).
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
Picketing
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Women--Suffrage--United States
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5 x 6.5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Pickets, 1917
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 160016
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160016