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

Lucy Branham

Author/Creator

Photographer: Harris & Ewing

Created/Published

[1917 Oct.-Nov.]

Notes

Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Lucy Branham, facing forward, standing in front of a building and holding a sign, "We Demand That The American Government Give Alice Paul A Political Offender, The Privileges Russia Gave Miyukoff."
Title and information transcribed from item.
Lucy G. Branham of Baltimore, Md., an organizer for the NWP, was a graduate of Washington College who earned graduate degrees at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. Branham was arrested picketing Sept. 1917 and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse and District Jail. 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--Delaware--
United States--District of Columbia--
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Delaware
Branham, Lucy Gwynne, 1892-1966
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Photographs

Object Type

still image

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 274007
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.274007