Emmeline Pankhurst as a young girl, 1870s.
7JCC/O/02/088.Photograph, modern reproduction, printed, paper, monochrome, studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst leaning against the back of a chair, three quarter length, right profile; printed below image 'Ab... More
Waiting for suffragettes outside Bow Street, c.1908-1912.
7JCC/O/02/054.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a large group of women being controlled by police waiting outside Bow Street Magistrates' Court for women to be released; printed inscription on reverse 'Co... More
Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst in court, c.1909.
7JCC/O/02/059.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, general view of a crowded courtroom with Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst seated in the dock at Bow Street Magistrates' Court; manuscript inscripti... More
WSPU waitresses at Women's Exhibition, 1909.
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Ida F. Hasley, St. Chrmn, Oklahoma
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Ida F. Hasley, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing fur stole.
Women in the home ... National American woman suffrage association. He...
Title.; Woman suffrage.; On verso: {stamp} D. of D. May 10, 1910; 09-83-443.3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... More
Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr of New York is one of the prominent members of ...
Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Rheta Childe Dorr, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding eye glasses in right hand and newspaper in left hand, wearing corduroy su... More
[Inez Milholland Boissevain preparing to lead the March 3, 1913, suffr...
Summary: Photograph of Inez Milholland, full-length, facing forward, wearing white robes and a crown, astride a white horse in front of a crowd on a street in Washington, D.C. Title derived from Library of Cong... More
Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Cong[ressional] Union, 1913
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, studio portrait of Lucy Burns, cofounder of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, later National Woman's Party, seated in... More
Christabel Pankhurst in New York, c.1914.
7JCC/O/02/106.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst seated on a chair, wearing hat and long white gloves; printed inscription on reverse 'Copyrighted by the International News Service, 23... More
Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members leaving a prison building. Warden Zinkham (left).
[Grand Picket at the White House, eve of President Woodrow Wilson's se...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph on a rainy day of a woman standing on chair in slicker and rain hat speaking through a megaphone to suffragists standing with suffrage banners. On... More
Conferring over ratification [of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Consti...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of six National Woman's Party members gathered around a table. Left to R: Dora Lewis (seated), Abby Scott Baker (seated), Anita Pollitzer (standing), Alice Paul ... More
Alice Paul and a delegation consulting with Governor Cox on the suffra...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members and Alice Paul gathered with Governor Cox on steps to a building, with photographers and cameras on tripods in the foreground.
Votes for Women at 21, 1927.
TWL/2009/02/212
The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast. Ne...
Illustration showing at top of page, several men at a polling place where an African American man places his ballot in the box for "Re[publ]ican Mayor Welch" which is next to the empty ballot box for "The White... More
Miss Helen Kellar [Keller] of Massachusetts is one of the prominent me...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulder portrait of Helen Keller, facing right. Published in Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1913, Nationa... More
Unidentified suffragists at a demonstration, c.1908-1913.
7JCC/O/02/139.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, three women in the street wearing sashes, one of which says 'WFL', another 'Marshall Section 2'; printed inscription on reverse 'Copyright Central News, 5 N... More
Emmeline Pankhurst and Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, 1908.
7JCC/O/02/019.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pankhurst and Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy standing in front of a large fabric banner ('MRS PANKHURST FOUND.. Champion of Womanhood FAMED FAR FOR DE... More
[Alice Paul and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis holding a conference, Pauline Floy...
Title from another copy of the photo in the National Woman's Party Records, Box I:155, Folder: Paul, Alice. National Photo Company Collection.
Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst in court, c.1909.
7JCC/O/02/058.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Evelina Haverfield and Emmeline Pankhurst seated in the dock at Bow Street Magistrates' Court; printed inscription on reverse 'Illustrations Bureau, 12 Whit... More
Mrs. Street
Summary: Unidentified actress in what appears to be a still photograph from a skit on woman's suffrage, featuring a woman wearing a wedding ring and a gingham dress and white apron seated at a table with mixing... More
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Public domain photograph of public building, train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Elizabeth Glendower Evans.
Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elizabeth Glendower Evans, turned to the right with face in three-quarter profile, arms bent at elbows resting on waist, wearing wide-brimmed feathered hat. Title transc... More
Suffragettes with flowers, c.1914.
7JCC/O/02/048.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, suffragettes, each holding a pole topped with a bunch of flowers, standing in a group, possibly awaiting the start of an event; printed inscription on rever... More
Mrs. Sara Bard Field, of San Francisco, is one of the most eloquent an...
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Sara Bard Field of San Francisco, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing light-colore... More
[Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offi...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of two women working in the Suffragist office. Frances Pepper is seated at a typewriter; Elizabeth Smith is reaching for a shelf on a step ladder.... More
Arrival of the "Flying Squadron" at Colorado Springs, Colo[rado]. "Suf...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of suffragists gathered outside the depot of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with a banner, "We Demand an Amend... More
Mrs. Harry [Anna] Lowenburg, Chairman State of Pennsylvania, Board of ...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Anna Lowenburg, facing forward, seated in chair, holding book in right hand in lap, leaning left arm to jaw, in hat. A similar photo... More
TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill...
TR addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of TR and a frontal view shot from the rear of th... More
Suffrage pickets marching around the White House-- March 4, 1917
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women picketing with banners on sidewalk in front of White House. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 59 (Mar. 10, 1917): 8. Caption: "The Line on ... More
Republican Convention. L-R: Mrs. James Rector, Ohio, Mary Dubrow, N.J....
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mrs. James Rector, Mary Dubrow, and Alice Paul standing outside and holding a banner, "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party... More
[National Woman's Party members standing in line with banners during t...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members assembling in street with banners. Among the banners are those reading "Nebraska," "California Republic," Connec... More
[National Woman's Party members walking with banners during the dedica...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members marching in the street with banners, U.S. Capitol dome in the background.
A bill of rights as provided in the ten original amendments to the con...
On verso: Gift Verner W. Clapp, July 9, 1952. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 244... More
[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with othe...
Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913. Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant.... More
The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original ...
Another of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment, on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment and showing the grand May 19 celebratory parade in Baltimore. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3)... More
Men's League for Women's Suffrage: Constitution and Charter Members
Lists officers and charter members: President, George Foster Peabody; Secretary Treasurer, Max Eastman; 13 Vice Presidents including William Dean Howells, Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, President Langdon Stewardson, ... More
Lucretia Mott.
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Elizabeth L. Comstock, Union Springs, N.Y., and Laura S. Heaviland (Ch...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Studio portrait, full-length, seated, Elizabeth L. Comstock (left), wearing a cloak and lightweight bonnet and holding a second dress bonnet, and Laura S. Heaviland (right)... More
Susan B. Anthony with seven other women
Susan Brownell Anthony, (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent a prominent American suffragist leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the Unite... More
Procession of released prisoners, 1909.
7JCC/O/02/071Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, procession of women in white each carrying a pole topped by an arrow head, among them Christabel Pankhurst in academic robes, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, Emme... More
Christabel Pankhurst, 1909.
7JCC/O/02/108b.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Christabel Pankhurst holding a Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) flag and waving from the window of a house; printed inscription on reverse 'Illustra... More
Christabel Pankhurst in a suffragette procession, 1911.
7JCC/O/01/002Photographic postcard, printed, monochrome, suffragette procession taken from above, Christabel Pankhurst in a white dress and academic robes walking ahead of a banner '690 IMPRISONMENTS TO WIN FRE... More
Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman, N.Y. City Committee, C.U. [Congression...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, seated and looking downward at book on lap, of Alice Carpenter, chairman of New York City Committee, Congressional Union, wearing v-n... More
Liberty and her Attendants - (Suffragette's Tableau) in Front of Treas...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and girls in Greek costume in suffrage tableau in front of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. Central figure is dressed in toga as Liberty. On vers... More
Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-ch...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of Mary Bartelme, second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party and judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago, seated at paper-covere... More
Mrs. George T. Odell, of Washington, D.C., vice-chairman of the Legisl...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Mrs. George Talbot Odell, seated, gloved hands in lap, wearing dark fur-trimmed jacket with fur muff, and broad-brimmed hat with feather. Altern... More
Charlotte Despard, Edith How Martyn and Emma Sproson, c.1914.
7JCC/O/02/067.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Charlotte Despard, Edith How Martyn and Emma Sproson walking arm in arm down a street, watched by a policeman; manuscript inscription on reverse 'Women's Fr... More
[Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of group of smiling women and two children standing with banners on sidewalk. Banner on left: "We demand an amendment to the United States Constit... More
Miss Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, of Portland, Me., has been as...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, wearing straw hat, checked jacket, and white collared shirt. Schuyler was secretary to Alva Belmont (1853-1933).
Tier in D.C. prison where suffragists were confined in 1917.
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of interior of prison, with cells, tables and chairs.
Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washing...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jeanette Rankin, with hat, fur muff, and issue of The Suffragist, in storefront doorway with two unidentified women, who also hold copies of the paper.
Suffrage demonstration at Lafayette Statue (to get the last vote in th...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of five National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Lucy Branham, center, is burning President Wilson's words. ... More
[Three National Woman's Party members with "Wage Earners" banner durin...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women in white dresses, standing outside with two flags and banner that reads: "Wage Earners."
[Inez Milholland Memorial, Westport, N.Y., 1923]
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul and a group of young women in white costumes with headbands, standing at Inez Milholland's gravesite.
Thanksgiving, 1942. Freedom to worship God in his own way--everywhere ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Print showing President Grant sitting at the center of a large table, with several men clustered around, signing the 15th amendment granting that the right to vote cannot be denied on basis of race or color. Fr... More
The Fifteenth Amendment and its results / drawn by G.F. Kahl.
Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3.) A group of black men, on horseback and wearing top hats... More
The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...
One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More
Emmeline Pankhurst, 1907-1912.
7JCC/O/01/017Postcard, printed, monochrome photographic studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, seated, head and shoulders, front-profile, oval, white border, black text, printed inscription front: 'Mrs Pankhurs... More
The arrest of Flora Drummond, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, 1908.
7JCC/O/02/064.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Flora Drummond, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst being arrested by Inspector Jarvis at the Women's Social & Political Union offices, 13 Oct 1908; printed i... More
Annie Kenney, Constance Lytton and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, 1909.
7JCC/O/02/079Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, mounted on card, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence planting a tree, watched by Annie Kenney and Constance Lytton; manuscript inscription on front 'L Blathwayt 23-4-0... More
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Phila[delphia] [Dora Lewis]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Nell Mercer, Norfolk, Virginia
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Nell Mercer, seated, with painted backdrop, wearing broad-collared suit and hat with leaves and berries. Printed as a picture postcard. Nell Mercer ... More
Constance Lytton and others in the 'Prison to Citizenship' pageant, 19...
7JCC/O/02/072Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a group of Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) members carrying poles with white triangular banners waiting to take part in the women's Coronation proces... More
Women queuing outside Bow Street, c.1912.
7JCC/O/02/051.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, a long line of women, many carrying suitcases, outside Bow Street, a policeman at the head of the queue; printed inscription on reverse 'Copyright photograp... More
Barbara Wylie and Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912.
7JCC/O/02/102.Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, Barbara Wylie shaking hands with Emmeline Pankhurst at Euston Station before embarking on a speaking tour of Canada; printed caption on reverse, also printe... More
[Suffragist Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffra...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Margaret Foley (right?) and an unidentified woman (left), both carrying pocketbooks and wearing fur-trimmed hats and fur stoles, standing outsi... More
Mrs. [Florence] Boeckel.
Summary: Informal portrait of Florence Brewer Boeckel seated at desk, with pencil in hand, reading a typewritten document in front of her, wearing a blouse, jacket, and wide-brimmed hat with appliquéd flowers. ... More
International Congress of Women1915
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Miss Katharine Morey, Massachusetts state chairman for the National Wo...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Controversial Party Banner in Tucson, Ariz[ona], 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street in Tucson with banner raised up across, "Women voters vote against Wilson-Ashurst-Hayden. Their party opposes national woman suffrage. National Woman's... More
Mabel Vernon Speaking at Suffrage Rally, May, 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mabel Vernon speaking to large crowd (mostly men) outside building in Chicago. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 25 (June ... More
Joy Young at time of Inez Milholland memorial services at [U.S.] Capit...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Joy Young, facing forward, standing outdoors on sidewalk with banner, "Without Extinction is Liberty, Without Retrograde is ... More
Abby Scott Baker.
Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., sitting at a desk, facing left, and reading, with papers, books, and a typewriter nearby. Title supplied by Library of C... More
Miss Ting in attendance at the International Conference of Women Physi...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Miss Ting, standing by window, facing camera, hands clasped before her, wearing Chinese dress and watch, with pen inserted in dress near collar.
The Public Health Nurse is a friend and gets met at the station! In mo...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a public health nurse, outside with hat and bag, standing next to burro carrying four children.
Our Bill of Rights is everybody's business / Stanley Dersh.
Print shows an early American courtroom scene labeled "Trial by Jury" with a man, possibly a jury foreman, standing next to the jury box, presenting a statement; another man sits in the foreground, at a desk on... More
The Fifteenth amendment - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment. A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19t... More
Queen Caroline. Britain's best hope!! England's sheet-anchor!!!, Briti...
British cartoon showing people praising Queen Caroline, who holds anchor, representing the Magna Charta, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the people. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection(L... More
Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards Distri...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap. Caption on cropped version of same ima... More
Report of the National Women Suffrage Convention held at Washington, F...
Picryl description: Public domain newspaper clippings page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Christabel Pankhurst, c.1910.
7JCC/O/01/011.Postcard, printed, monochrome photographic studio portrait of Christabel Pankhurst, head and shoulders, full face, white surround, manuscript inscription in ink below 'Christabel'; on reverse '(Co... More
Miss Clara Louise Rowe, of Syracuse, N.Y., campaigned in the New York ...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Clara L. Rowe, wearing broad-brimmed hat and square-necked satin dress with ruffle trim.
Unidentified speaker (possibly Ethel Smyth) at a Womens Social & Polit...
Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, an unidentified woman, possibly Ethel Smyth, speaking at the London Pavilion, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Christabel Pankhurst also on the platform, with representative... More
Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, National Summer Headquarters...
Photograph shows group portrait of suffragettes standing outside in front of headquarters. Copyright 1914 by Ernst & Thuot, Newport, R. I. Copyright registration title: Congressional union for woman's suffrage,... More
At Mrs. [Alva]] Belmont's [house in] Newport, RI, 1914.
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and men on steps leading up to Marble House, Alva Belmont's estate in Newport, RI.
Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Cartoonist, Nat[ional] Woman's P[ar]ty
Summary: Informal portrait, Nina E. Allender, full-length, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding a cartoon sketch in her lap. Title and information transcribed from item. Photograp... More
[Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916]
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of (mostly female) suffrage supporters demonstrating with signs addressed to President Woodrow Wilson while assembled along a street in Chicago. S... More
Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Proh...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elsie Hill, standing in the back seat of an automobile that is parked at curb, speaking to a crowd of people (mostly men} standing on a sidewalk, on a street ... More
Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse of Portland, Me., Chairman of the Maine B...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, facing left, standing by window and table with container of flowers, wearing loosely flow... More
Mrs. George Elder Adams, of New York, who took part in the picketing o...
Summary: Studio portrait, Mrs. George Elder Adams of New York, in hat and fur stole, standing with a copy of the newsletter The Suffragist in her hands. Title transcribed from item.
Police arresting party demonstrators outside Senate Office Building, O...
Title transcribed from item. 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 ... More
Party watchfires burn outside White House, Jan. 1919.
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party watchfire demonstrators standing with banners and fire in urn in front of White House. One banner reads, "President Wilson is deceiving... More
A bill of rights as provided in the ten original amendments to the con...
Printed on parchment paper.; Gift. Senator Robert L. Owen Oct. 14, 1942.; On verso: Bill of Rights; Gift Robert L. Owen Oct. 14, 1942. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as f... More
A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.
Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are... More