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An authors evening for suffrage / photo by Paul Thompson. – Historic Photograph Print

An authors evening for suffrage / photo by Paul Thompson., 1914 Jan. 12. — historic photograph
An authors evening for suffrage / photo by Paul Thompson., 1914 Jan. 12.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Three writers share the frame in this January 1914 photograph of an authors' evening held in support of woman suffrage. W. E. B. Du Bois, the sociologist and editor of *The Crisis*, sits with muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens and poet Edwin Markham, author of "The Man with the Hoe." The campaign for women's voting rights was gaining ground across the country at the time, and Du Bois's presence suggests the NAACP's wider interest in reform causes. Paul Thompson's photograph preserves a moment when prominent writers lent their names and public voices to a political cause.

Created / published1914 Jan. 12.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesForms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Publication may be restricted. For information see LC P&P Restrictions Notebook.
SubjectsDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963. Steffens, Lincoln,--1866-1936. Markham, Edwin,--1852-1940. Authors--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184845

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