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Item Title
Policeman in Syracuse welcoming Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer [Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer] [and Miss Vida Milholland] on arrival of Prison Special.
Created/Published
[1919 Mar. 8]
Notes
Summary: Outdoor photograph of a policeman (left) greeting NWP activists L. W. E. Havemeyer (center) and Vida Milholland (right), speakers with the National Woman's Party "Prison Special" tour, in Syracuse, New York.
Title transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 1 (Feb. 20, 1920): n.p. A larger version of the same photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 12 (Mar. 22, 1919): 7.
Vida Milholland of New York City, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Milholland and sister of Inez Milholland Boissevain. She was a student at Vassar College where she excelled in athletics and drama. She studied singing abroad, but upon death of her sister gave up her musical career for full-time work in suffrage. She was arrested in Washington, D.C. July 4, 1917 for picketing and served three days in District Jail. In 1919 she toured the United States as part of the "Prison Special" tour of NWP speakers. She sang at all the meetings. Mrs. H. O. Havemayer of New York City was arrested in Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1919, for taking part in the final watchfire demonstration and sentenced to five days in District Jail. She took part in the "Prison Special" tour of suffragists who spoke nationwide about their experiences being arrested for demonstrating for suffrage. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361, 365.
Subjects
United States--New York--Syracuse
United States--New York--New York
Havemeyer, Louisine Waldron Elder
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Milholland, Vida
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Prison Special Tour, 1919
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 160058
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160058