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Photo, Print, Drawing Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

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Title

  • Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Created / Published

  • 1917 July 6-8

Headings

  • -  National Woman's Party
  • -  Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Connecticut
  • -  Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
  • -  Weed, Helena Hill
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- District of Columbia
  • -  United States -- Connecticut -- Norwalk

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Title and information transcribed from item.
  • -  Summary: Photograph of Helena Hill Weed, facing forward, standing behind bars in a prison cell.
  • -  Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, Conn., was a graduate of Vassar College and Montana School of Mines. She was a geologist, a daughter of a member of Congress, and a vice-president of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She was a prominent member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the NWP. She was one of the first pickets arrested, July 4, 1917, and served three days in District Jail. In January 1918, she was arrested for applauding in court and sentenced to 24 hours, and in August 1918 she was arrested for participation in Lafayette Square meeting, and sentenced to 15 days. Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 369.

Medium

  • 1 photograph: print; 2.5 x 2 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:275, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 452-503 "W"

Source Collection

  • Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.". Norwalk Connecticut Washington D.C. United States, 1917. July 6-8. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000060/.

APA citation style:

(1917) Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.". Norwalk Connecticut Washington D.C. United States, 1917. July 6-8. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000060/.

MLA citation style:

Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.". July 6-8. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000060/>.