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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[1917 Nov.]
Notes
Summary: Informal portrait, Lucy Burns, three-quarter length, seated, facing forward, holding a newspaper in her lap in front of a prison cell, likely at Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Lucy Burns, of New York City, who with Alice Paul established the first permanent headquarters for suffrage work in Washington, D.C., helped organize the suffrage parade of Mar. 3, 1913, and was one of the editors of The Suffragist. Leader of most of the picket demonstrations, she served more time in jail than any other suffragists in America. Arrested picketing June 1917, sentenced to 3 days; arrested Sept. 1917, sentenced to 60 days; arrested Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to 6 months; in Jan. 1919 arrested at watchfire demonstrations, for which she served one 3 day and two 5 day sentences. She also served 4 prison terms in England. Burns was one of the speakers on the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 356.
Subjects
United States--Virginia--
United States--New York--Brooklyn
United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Burns, Lucy, 1879-1966
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 7 x 4.5 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 274009
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.274009