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Photo, Print, Drawing [Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul with "Russia" banner.]

About this Item

Title

  • [Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul with "Russia" banner.]

Names

  • Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • 1917 [Oct.-Nov.]

Headings

  • -  National Woman's Party
  • -  Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Delaware
  • -  Branham, Lucy Gwynne, 1892-1966
  • -  Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- Maryland -- Baltimore
  • -  United States -- District of Columbia
  • -  United States -- Delaware

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Lucy Branham, facing forward, standing in front of a building and holding a sign, "We Demand That The American Government Give Alice Paul A Political Offender, The Privileges Russia Gave Miyukoff."
  • -  Lucy G. Branham of Baltimore, Md., an organizer for the NWP, was a graduate of Washington College who earned graduate degrees at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. Branham was arrested picketing Sept. 1917 and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse and District Jail. She was a speaker in the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.
  • -  Title derived by Library of Congress staff.

Medium

  • 1 photograph: print; 4.25 x 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:160, Folder: Pickets--Arrests and Imprisonment

Source Collection

  • Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul with "Russia" banner. United States Washington D.C. Maryland Delaware Baltimore, 1917. [Oct.-Nov] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000224/.

APA citation style:

Harris & Ewing, W. (1917) Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul with "Russia" banner. United States Washington D.C. Maryland Delaware Baltimore, 1917. [Oct.-Nov] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000224/.

MLA citation style:

Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul with "Russia" banner. [Oct.-Nov] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000224/>.