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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pa. A picket who served time in prison during the campaign of the National Woman's Party
Author/Creator
Photographer: Thomas, Shamokin, Pa.
Created/Published
[ca. 1917 Dec.-1920]
Notes
Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Kate Heffelfinger, facing right, with chin resting on arm bent at elbow, wearing a v-neck dress with suffrage prisoner pin.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Penn., was an art student and NWP activist. She was sentenced to six months in District Jail for picketing Oct. 15, 1917; another month was added to her sentence later, for a previous offense. In August 1918 she was sentenced to 15 days for participating in a Lafayette Square meeting, and in January 1919, she was sentenced to five days for participation in a watchfire demonstration. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 361.
Subjects
United States--Pennsylvania--Shamokin
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Heffelfinger, Kate
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 8 x 4.5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:274, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 167-200 "H"
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 274020
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.274020