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Photo, Print, Drawing [Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel (center) of Delaware for refusing to give up their banners.]

About this Item

Title

  • [Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel (center) of Delaware for refusing to give up their banners.]

Created / Published

  • [1917 June]

Headings

  • -  National Woman's Party
  • -  Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Women prisoners--United States--Political activity
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Delaware
  • -  Arniel, Annie
  • -  Youmans, Florence
  • -  Arrest
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Minnesota
  • -  Picketing
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- Minnesota
  • -  United States -- Delaware -- Wilmington

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Summary: Florence Youmans of Minnesota (left), clutching a suffrage propaganda banner, and Annie Arniel of Delaware (center), being approached in front of the White House gates by an unidentified policewoman, who appears to have seized Arniel's banner, while a third unidentified suffrage picket watches from behind her tri-color purple, white, and gold National Woman's Party flag, and a fourth picket looks away in a different direction.
  • -  Title taken from the caption accompanying a cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 76 (July 7, 1917): 6.
  • -  Mrs. Annie Arniel, Wilmington, Delaware, did picket duty at the White House beginning in 1917. She was one of the first six suffrage prisoners and served eight jail sentences: three days in June 1917 and sixty days in Occoquan Workhouse in August-September 1917 for picketing; fifteen days in August 1918 for the Lafayette Square meeting; and five sentences of five days each in January and February 1919, for watchfire demonstrations. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.

Medium

  • 1 photograph: print; 8.5 x 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Arniel, Annie

Source Collection

  • Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel center of Delaware for refusing to give up their banners. United States Minnesota Delaware Wilmington, 1917. [June] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000073/.

APA citation style:

(1917) Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel center of Delaware for refusing to give up their banners. United States Minnesota Delaware Wilmington, 1917. [June] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000073/.

MLA citation style:

Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel center of Delaware for refusing to give up their banners. [June] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000073/>.