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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Mrs. W. D. Ascough of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the Connecticut branch of the Woman's Party
Author/Creator
Photographer: Edmonston, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1915]
Notes
Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Lillian Ascough, facing right, head turned toward camera.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Verso (struck out): "A speaker in the demonstration this afternoon."
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 26 (June 26, 1915): 5; The Suffragist, 4, no. 44 (Oct. 28, 1916): 7; and The Suffragist, 4, no. 50 (Dec. 9, 1916): 9.
Lillian Ascough of Detroit, Mich., served as Connecticut State Chairman, NWP. Studied for concert stage in London and Paris. Abandoned concert stage to devote time to suffrage. Sentenced to fifteen days, August 1918, Lafayette Square demonstration, and five days, February 1919, in watchfire demonstration. She was a speaker in the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.
Subjects
United States--Connecticut--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
Ascough, Lillian
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 6 x 4 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:274, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 1-17 "A"
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 274003
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.274003