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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Abby Scott Baker in prison dress, 1917
Created/Published
1917
Notes
Summary: Portrait, Abby Scott Baker, full-length, standing, facing forward, in prison dress.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 93 (Nov. 3, 1917): 7.
Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., was known as the diplomat of the NWP because of her personal lobbying of scores of prominent politicians. Member, NWP executive committee, and political chairman beginning 1918. Baker was arrested for picketing and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse, Sept. 1917. She was one of the speakers on the "Prison Special" tour in Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Baker, Abby Scott, 1871-1944
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 7 x 5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:274, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 18-70 "B"
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 274004
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.274004