Suffrage fire – Vintage Photo Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Suffrage fire in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Suffrage fire
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A fire threatened the headquarters of the National Woman's Party in Washington, D.C., on January 7, 1920, and the caption reports that the party's workers quickly removed records and valuable papers before the flames could reach them. The timing gave the moment extra weight: the Nineteenth Amendment, which would guarantee women the vote, was not yet ratified, and the party's files documented years of campaigning. The photograph comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington firm whose glass negatives record the city's events and everyday scenes in the 1910s and 1920s. The caption breaks off before describing the neighbor's part in the excitement, so that detail is not recorded.
| Created / published | 1920 January 7. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Fire threatened to destroy the headquarters of the National Womens Party today but the Sufs" promptly removed all records and valuable paper. During the excitement their next door neighbor |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,138 × 4,143 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-230274 |
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