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Photo, Print, Drawing Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party. She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago.

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Title

  • Judge Mary A. [Mary Margaret] Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party. She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago.

Created / Published

  • 1913 Mar. 6

Headings

  • -  National Woman's Party
  • -  Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Illinois
  • -  Bartelme, Mary
  • -  Judges
  • -  Photographs
  • -  United States -- Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Title transcribed from item.
  • -  Summary: Formal, half-length portrait of Mary Bartelme, second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party and judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago, seated at paper-covered desk, facing left with head turned to camera, wearing a high-collared dress with pin on left side of chest.
  • -  Photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 25 (June 17, 1916): 5. Caption: "Judge Mary M. Bartelme, Illinois. Second Vice Chairman Woman's Party." The photograph may have been taken in conjunction with a story about Bartelme in the May 25, 1913, issue of The New York Times Magazine ("America's Only Woman Judge Is Doing a Big Work"), which is illustrated with both a sketch and photograph of her in which she appears to be wearing the same outfit shown in this image. The drawing is captioned: "Miss Mary Margaret Bartelme."
  • -  According to contemporary newspaper articles and a biographical essays by Estelle B. Freedman in Notable American Women: The Modern Period, ed. Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University), 60, and by Gwen Hoerr McNamee in Women Building Chicago, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 66-70, Bartelme's middle name was Margaret. On March 3, 1913, she began hearing cases as an assistant judge in the Court for Delinquent Girls, a branch of Chicago's Juvenile Court.
  • -  Bartelme served as vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party in 1916-1917 according to Donald L. Haggerty, ed., The National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913-1920: A Guide to the Microfilm (Sanford, N.C.: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981).
  • -  The print has been touched up for publication (paint has been applied to the background to make Bartelme's image stand out better).

Medium

  • 1 photograph: print; 9 x 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:148, Folder: Bartelme, Mary

Source Collection

  • Records of the National Woman's Party

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Judge Mary A. Mary Margaret Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party. She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago. United States Illinois Chicago, 1913. Mar. 6. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000084/.

APA citation style:

(1913) Judge Mary A. Mary Margaret Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party. She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago. United States Illinois Chicago, 1913. Mar. 6. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000084/.

MLA citation style:

Judge Mary A. Mary Margaret Bartelme, of Illinois, is second vice-chairman of the National Woman's Party. She is the judge of the Children's Night Court of Chicago. Mar. 6. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000084/>.