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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
Miss Matilda Young
Author/Creator
Photographer: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1915
Notes
Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Matilda Young, facing slightly to the right with head turned slightly to the left, standing with right hand in pocket and left hand on waist with coat or shawl draped across left arm, wearing wide-brimmed hat with embroidered cloth around band.
Title and information transcribed from item.
Matilda Young of Washington, D.C., was the sister of NWP activist Joy Young. She worked full-time for suffrage for several years. She was the youngest NWP picket arrested (19 years old when she served her first prison term). She was arrested for picketing Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to 15 days in District Jail, and served two terms in jail in January 1919; five days for watchfire demonstrations and three days for applauding suffrage prisoners in court. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 371.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Young, Matilda
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. 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 275040
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.275040