Miss Joy Young, of Washington, D.C. Assistant Editor of "The Suffragist," weekly organ of the Woman's Party and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Picture taken when she was on her way to the White House to present President Wilson with a basket of flowers in which was contained a message from women voters of the West.

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Item Title

Miss Joy Young, of Washington, D.C. Assistant Editor of "The Suffragist," weekly organ of the Woman's Party and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Picture taken when she was on her way to the White House to present President Wilson with a basket of flowers in which was contained a message from women voters of the West.

Created/Published

[ca. 1915

Notes

Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter-length, Joy Young, facing forward, standing outside with White House in background, wearing wide-brimmed hat, two-piece suit with piping, gloves, and tricolor suffrage sash, carrying a basket of flowers.
Summary: Title and information transcribed from item.
Transcribed from related photograph: "Miss Joy Young, of Washington, D.C., formerly assistant editor of "The Suffragist," official weekly organ of the National Woman's Party. Miss Young spent four cheerless days in the District of Columbia jail for holding a banner at a gate of the White House."
Similar photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 17 (May 6, 1916): ?
Joy Young of New York City, formerly of Washington, D.C., was the wife of Merrill Rogers. She worked as an assistant on the staff of The Suffragist and later became an organizer for the NWP in various parts of the country. She was arrested picketing July 4, 1917, and served three days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 371.

Subjects

United States--District of Columbia--
United States--New York--New York
The Suffragist (serial)--Editorial staff
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Young, Joy
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 4.5 x 6.5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:275, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 504-510 "Y"

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 275039
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.275039