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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
[Arrest of White House pickets Catherine Flanagan of Hartford, Connecticut (left), and Madeleine Watson of Chicago (right).]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing
Created/Published
[1917 Aug.]
Notes
Summary: Photograph of Catherine Flanagan (Left) and [Mrs. William Upton (Madeleine) Watson?] ( R) of the National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket with banners before the White House East Gate. Heckling sailor to left, policemen left and right, arresting policewoman center, crowd of men behind.
Title derived by Library of Congress staff.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 83 (Aug. 25, 1917): 6-7. Similar photograph printed in The Suffragist, 5 no. 83 (25 Aug 1917): 6-7. Captioned "Arrest of Miss Catherine Flanagan and Mrs. William Upton Watson at East Gate [of White House] with Banner `How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?' Sailors and Roughs Encouraged by Police Shown in Background." Handwritten caption on the back of a similar photograph in NWP identifies the two women as Catherine Flanagan and Gertrude Crocker.
Catharine M. Flanagan was arrested picketing August 1917, sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan Workhouse. Mrs. William Upton Watson, of Chicago, Illinois, was treasurer of the Illinois state branch of the NWP. She was arrested Aug. 17, 1917 for picketing and sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan Workhouse. Arrested again in August 1918, she was sentenced to five days for participation in Lafayette Square meeting. Gertrude Crocker served three jail sentences, 30 days for picketing the White House in 1917; 10 days for assisting Lafayette Square meeting 1918, and five days for watchfire demonstration 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 357, 359, 369.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
Flanagan, Catherine M.
Watson, Madeleine
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Picketing
Arrest
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5.25 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 160038
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160038