Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

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Item Title

Kate Heffelfinger after her release from Occoquan Prison, ca. 1917.

Created/Published

ca. 1917

Notes

Summary: Photograph of a woman escorting Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, outside near a car, after release from jail.
Title 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 later added to her sentence for a previous offense. In August 1918, she was sentenced to 15 days for participating in a Lafayette Square meeting; 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--District of Columbia--
United States--Virginia--
Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
Prisons--United States--District of Columbia
Prisons--United States--Virginia
Heffelfinger, Kate
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 4 x 5 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:276, Folder: Group Photographs Nos. 77-87

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 276025
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.276025