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

Police arresting party demonstrators outside Senate Office Building, Oct. 1918.

Author/Creator

Photographer: Harris & Ewing

Created/Published

1918 Oct.

Notes

Summary: Photograph of policemen confronting a line of National Woman's Party pickets on Constitution Avenue. The suffragists wear sashes and carry suffrage banners. Women near the front of the line are being forcibly arrested, as police seize their banners, while two young men in foreground look on.
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Subjects

United States--District of Columbia--
Picketing
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
Arrest
Photographs

Object Type

still image

Medium

1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.

Call Number

Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:276, Folder: Group Photographs Nos. 88-99

Part of

Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

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

Digital ID

mnwp 276029
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.276029