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Item Title
Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas at right waiting for mobs to attack pickets so she can order out new banners.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
1917 [July 14]
Notes
Summary: Photograph of Julia Hurlbut leading procession of (two) suffragists down city sidewalk, both suffragists wear suffrage sashes and hold aloft suffrage banners, Hurlbut holds the colors, and the second banner behind her has text (obscured), while crowds of men walk along beside on both sides of the women, and Iris Calderhead appears at right monitoring progress of the pickets.
Title transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 78 (July 21, 1917): 4, with caption: "Pickets Marching to the White House on July 14 (The Police Testified They Had to Hold Back the Crowds)", and in The Suffragist, 6, no. 1 (Jan. 5, 1918): 8 (Year in Review issue), with caption: "Fall of Bastille Day Picket (Police swore they had to clear way for line)."
Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, N.J., was vice chairman of the New Jersey branch of the NWP. In 1916 she assisted in Washington state campaign. She was arrested picketing July 14, 1917, and sentence to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse. She was pardoned by President Wilson after three days. She engaged in war work in France during World War I. Iris Calderhead of Marysville, Kans., and later, Denver, Colo., was arrested July 4, 1917 for picketing and served three days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 362, 369.
Subjects
United States--New Jersey--
United States--District of Columbia--
Picketing
Hurlbut, Julia
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Calderhead, Iris
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print 7 x 10 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 160023
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160023