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Photo, Print, Drawing [Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the first sheet of equal rights seals.]

About this Item

Title

  • [Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the first sheet of equal rights seals.]

Names

  • Louise Pote, College Park, Maryland (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • [1938 Nov.]

Headings

  • -  National Woman's Party
  • -  Women--Suffrage--United States
  • -  Women's rights--United States
  • -  Actors and Actresses
  • -  Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- California

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Mary Pickford, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a suit and hat, and holding a sheet of Equal Rights seals.
  • -  Title derived by Library of Congress staff.
  • -  Transcribed from related photograph: "On Wednesday, February 15th, the 119th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony will be celebrated by the National Woman's Party and other organizations which favor the passage of the Equal Rights bill now pending before Congress. Among the militant women of America who believe that measure should pass, for the weal of the Commonwealth, is Mary Pickford who, after achieving fame and fortune as a popular idol on the screen, is devoting her time now to constructive work that has to do with human progress and betterment. "America's sweetheart" is shown here with a sheet of Equal Rights seals which, as a member of the National Woman's Party, she has just purchased so that the crusade to "balance the Constitution" may be carried on with vigor and effectiveness."

Medium

  • 1 photograph: print; 7 x 5 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:275, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 301-349 "P"

Source Collection

  • Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Louise Pote, College Park, Maryland. Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the first sheet of equal rights seals. United States California, 1938. [Nov] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000046/.

APA citation style:

Louise Pote, C. P. (1938) Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the first sheet of equal rights seals. United States California, 1938. [Nov] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000046/.

MLA citation style:

Louise Pote, College Park, Maryland. Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the first sheet of equal rights seals. [Nov] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000046/>.