| Name | Mrs. Pauline Adams |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 15 Feb 1917-1919 |
| Notes | Title transcribed from item. Summary: Pauline Adams, three-quarter-length portrait, sitting at a table in prison clothes with right arm raised holding a cup. Mrs. Pauline Adams of Norfolk, Virginia, was arrested when picketing the White House on Sept. 4, 1917, and sentenced to sixty days in Occoquan Workhouse. She was arrested again at a watchfire demonstration on Feb. 9, 1919, but was released on account of lack of evidence. She was one of the speakers on the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 1 (Feb. 15, 1919): 5. |
| Description | Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence. |
| URL | https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000068/ |
Source Citation
Library of Congress; Washington, DC; Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Library of Congress, Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, 1875-1938 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020.
Original data: Library of Congress. Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party. https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/: accessed 29 Jan 2020.
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