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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Lucy Branham on Prison Special
Created/Published
1919 Mar. 1
Notes
Summary: Photograph of Lucy Branham, wearing fur stole and hat and standing in front of a banner, "Suffrage Prisoners."
Title transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 14 (Apr. 5, 1919): cover.
Lucy Gwynne Branham of Baltimore, Md., was a graduate of Washington College, Md., and held graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins Univ. and Columbia Univ. She was arrested picking for suffrage in Washington, D.C. September 1917, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse and District Jail. Branham was part of the "Prison Special" nationwide tour of NWP activists who spoke about their experiences being arrested for demonstrating for the right to vote. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.
Subjects
United States--California--San Francisco
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Branham, Lucy Gwynne, 1892-1966
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Women--Suffrage--United States
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 5.5 x 7.5 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 160060
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160060