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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss Katharine Morey, Massachusetts state chairman for the National Woman's Party, who is in charge of introducing the Woman's Party Bill for Equal Rights at the present session of the Legislature which convened January 3rd.
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1915
Notes
Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Katherine Morey, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing wide-brimmed hat.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 40 (Sept. 30, 1916): 8, and The Suffragist, 4, no. 47 (Nov. 18, 1916): 8.
Katharine A. Morey of Brookline, Mass., was an officer of the Massachusetts State Branch of the NWP. She was the daughter of NWP organizer and state suffrage activist Agnes H. Morey. Katharine Morey worked as an organizer in the election campaign of 1916 in Kansas and frequently assisted at NWP national headquarters in Washington, D.C. She was one in the first group of pickets arrested in picketing at the White House, and she served three days in June 1917. In February 1919 she was arrested again in Boston demonstration against President Woodrow Wilson and was sentenced to eight days in the Charles St. Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 365.
Subjects
United States--Massachusetts--
United States--Kansas--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Morey, Katherine A.
Photographs
Object Type
Medium
1 photograph: print; 7 x 5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:275, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 236-282 "M"
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 275010
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.275010