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Item Title
Vida Milholland [in jail cell]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
ca. 1917 Jul. 4
Notes
Summary: Photograph of Vida Milholland behind bars in a jail cell (District Jail, Washington, D.C.).
Title transcribed from item.
Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 5 (Feb. 9, 1918): 6. Captioned: "Vida Milholland in Prison."
Vida Milholland of New York City, sister of Inez Milholland Boissevain, was arrested picketing for suffrage at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 4, 1917, and served three days in District Jail. In 1919 she traveled as part of the NWP "Prison Special" speaking tour, singing at each meeting the speakers held in cities across the country. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 365.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
United States--New York--New York
Prisons--United States--District of Columbia
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Milholland, Vida
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 4 x 6 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 160062
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160062