Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

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Item Title

Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Created/Published

1917 July 6-8

Notes

Summary: Photograph of Helena Hill Weed, facing forward, standing behind bars in a prison cell.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, Conn., was a graduate of Vassar College and Montana School of Mines. She was a geologist, a daughter of a member of Congress, and a vice-president of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She was a prominent member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the NWP. She was one of the first pickets arrested, July 4, 1917, and served three days in District Jail. In January 1918, she was arrested for applauding in court and sentenced to 24 hours, and in August 1918 she was arrested for participation in Lafayette Square meeting, and sentenced to 15 days. Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 369.

Subjects

United States--Connecticut--Norwalk
United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
Weed, Helena Hill
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 2.5 x 2 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:275, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 452-503 "W"

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

mnwp 275034
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.275034