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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
1917 [Oct.-Nov.]
Notes
Summary: Photograph of Mary Winsor, standing outside, holding a banner that reads: "To Ask Freedom for Women is Not a Crime. Suffrage Prisoners Should Not be Treated as Criminals."
Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff.
Mary Winsor, of Haverford, Penn., came from a Quaker family. She was educated at Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, at Bryn Mawr and abroad. She made a survey of the English suffrage movement for the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She was the founder and president of the Limited Suffrage Society. September 1917, sentenced to 60 days at Occoquan Workhouse for picketing. She was later sentenced to 10 days for participation in Lafayette Square meeting. She was a member of the "Prison Special" nationwide speaking tour in Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 370.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 4.25 x 7 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Pickets--Arrests and Imprisonment
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 160035
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160035