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Title

  • Berthe Arnold.

Names

  • Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • [1919 Jan.?]

Headings

  • -  Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Colorado
  • -  National Woman's Party--Buildings--1910-1920
  • -  Arnold, Berthe
  • -  Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- Colorado -- Colorado Springs

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Summary: Informal, full-length portrait of Berthe Arnold of Colorado Springs, Colorado, wearing a hat and fur-trimmed coat with a bouquet of flowers pinned on the front, looking downward at an urn containing a burning "watchfire" maintained in front of National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Title transcribed from item. Other information obtained from verso of duplicate print in same folder.
  • -  Photograph published in Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), between pages 274 and 275.
  • -  Berthe Arnold, of Colorado Springs, Colo., the daughter of a prominent physician, was educated at Colorado State University and a student of music in Philadelphia. She worked as a kindergarten teacher and was a member of the DAR. Arrested January 1919, watchfire demonstration, sentenced to five days in District Jail. She was one of the speakers on the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354.

Medium

  • 1 photograph: print; 5 x 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Arnold, Berthe

Source Collection

  • Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. Berthe Arnold. United States Colorado Colorado Springs, 1919. [Jan.?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000074/.

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