Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

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Item Title

When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug 18, 1920, Alice Paul, National Chairman of the Woman's Party, unfurled the ratification banner from Suffrage headquarters.

Author/Creator

Photographer: National Photo Co., Washington, D.C.

Created/Published

1920 Aug. 18

Notes

Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul standing over ratification banner hanging from the balcony of the National Woman's Party headquarters, with members watching outside the building below.
Title transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 8 (Sept. 1920): n.p. Caption: "Upon the word that Tennessee had ratified, Alice Paul unfurled the Woman's Party ratification banner with its thirty-six victory stars, and from the balcony of the headquarters it proclaims the triumph of the cause for which the Woman's Party was founded--the national enfranchisement of the women of America."

Subjects

United States--Tennessee--
United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Constitutional amendments--Ratification
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 6.5 x 8.5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Ratification Campaign, 1919-20

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

mnwp 160068
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160068