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Mary E. McDowell | 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 image reads: "Miss Mary McDowell of Chicago is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss McDowell is the head of the University Settlement of Chicago and next to Jane Addams is perhaps the most prominent woman in social reform work in that state. Her work as a member of the Advisory Council of the Union has been a great strength to the Union among the social reform groups in general and particularly in that part of the country where she is well known." | Moffett, Chicago (Photographer) | ||
Amalia E Mallen de Ostalaza | Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Amalia E. de Ostalaza, wearing lace mantilla and necklace. | |||
Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson | Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of women and a child in front of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage storefront office. Banner in window reads "Votes for Women." | |||
Mrs. Lieber E. Whittic | Title transcribed from item. Photograph published in Equal Rights, v. 11, 7 (Mar. 19, 1924), 34. As illustration in story "Equal Rights Campaign in New York." Summary: National Woman's Party delegates of New York posed with Governor Al Smith. | |||
Mrs. Minnie E Brooke | Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, of Minnie E. Brooke of Chevy Chase, Maryland, wearing a hat, earrings, necklace, and open-collared dress or blouse. According to her obituary in Equal Rights 21, no.11 (1 June 1938): 272, Brooke died on February 8, 1938. She had been active in the Congressional Union and NWP for more than twenty-five years. She "was in the first group to start street meetings for Woman Suffrage before the first Suffrage Parade on March 3, 1913, in Washington," and for many years she spoke "every Saturday night at the Benjamin Franklin statue on Pennsylvania Avenue." The Chicago street meetings referenced in the title occurred during the 1916 political campaign. | Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer) | ||
L. W. E. Havemeyer | Title transcribed from item. Summary: Ten National Woman's Party members from New England states in Washington, D.C. Left to R- Jessica Henderson, Anne Archbold, Mrs. William Draper, Sallie Hovey, Hazel Mac Kaye, Gail Laughlin, Mrs. Ernest Schelling, Mary Kelly Macarty, L. W. E. Havemeyer, Elsie Hill. | |||
Dr. Caroline E Spencer | Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Colorado Branch National Woman's Party members gathered with NWP organizers Margaret Whittemore and Mabel Vernon, around back of a car with banner, "National Woman's Party Women for Congress Campaign Coast to Coast Tour." Photograph was published in Equal Rights, v. 13, 9 (April 10, 1926), front cover. Caption: "Women for Congress Campaigners Before the Arcade of the Broadmoor Hotel Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the picture, from left to right, are Mrs. Stuart P. Dodge, Miss Katherine Courtney, Mrs. Lillian H. Kerr, Mrs. Bertha W. Fowler, State Chairman; Miss [Margaret] Whittemore, Mrs. Lawrence T. Grey, Miss Vernon, Mrs. Rowena Dashwood Graves, Dr. Caroline E. Spencer, Miss Ernestine Parsons and Miss Eva Shannon. All, except Miss Whittemore and Miss Vernon, are members of the Colorado Branch of the National Woman's Party." | H.L. Standley, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Photographer) | ||
Mrs. Nina E. Allender | 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. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 31 (July 29, 1916): 4. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 5 (June 1920): n.p. | Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer) | ||
Alva E. Belmont | Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Post card of formal portrait, Alva Belmont, full-length, standing, facing forward, wearing wide-brimmed hat, fur-trimmed jacket, and holding large fur muff. | A. Dupont (Copyright claimant) Stadler Photographing Co., New York-Chicago (Photographer) | ||
Mrs. E. W. Durant | Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Emma Smith Devoe of Seattle, Washington, facing front with head turned in profile to right, wearing high-neck collar. | James & Bushnell, Seattle (Photographer) | ||
Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson | Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Ella St. Clair Thompson, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing hat with embroidered appliqué and coat. Transcribed from related photograph: "Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson of North Carolina is one of the strongest supporters of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. She is their Southern field secretary, and has organized conventions for them in many of the Southern states." | Edmonston, Washington, D.C. (Photographer) | ||
Frances E. Willard | Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Frances E. Willard, facing forward with head slightly turned to the left, wearing eyeglasses and dress with high, ruffled collar and elaborate brocaded or embroidered bodice. | Veeder Photographic Studio, Albany, N.Y. (Photographer) | ||
Mrs. Nina E. Allender | Title transcribed from item. Summary: Nina E. Allender, studio portrait, head and shoulders. The caption on an alternate photograph in the same folder reads: Mrs. Nina E. Allender of Washington, D.C., formerly chairman of the D.C. Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, campaigned for the Woman's Party in Wyoming in the recent presidential election. She is the Art Editor of 'The Suffragist,' official weekly organ of the Congressional Union and the Woman's Party. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 10 (Mar. 6, 1915): 6. | Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer) | ||
Mrs. E. G. Graham | Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mary Gertrude Fendall, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing wide-brimmed hat with dark satin trim, light, double-collared dress or blouse with locket. Mary Gertrude Fendall of Baltimore, Md., campaigned for the NWP in the West in 1916 and was national treasurer of the NWP June 1917 to December 1919. She was arrested and sentenced to three days in jail, January 1919, for applauding in court. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 358. | Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer) | ||
Mrs. W. E. Hardy | 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-colored v-neck blouse with dark jacket. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 48 (Nov. 27, 1915): 3. | Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer) |