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[Mrs. Helen Gardener and Miss Alice Paul, seated, full-length portrait, at desk] – Vintage Photo Print

[Mrs. Helen Gardener and Miss Alice Paul, seated, full-length portrait, at desk], [between ca. 1908 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Mrs. Helen Gardener and Miss Alice Paul, seated, full-length portrait, at desk], [between ca. 1908 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [Mrs. Helen Gardener and Miss Alice Paul, seated, full-length portrait, at desk], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Mrs. Helen Gardener and Miss Alice Paul, seated, full-length portrait, at desk]

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Two women sit together at a desk in this full-length portrait: Helen Hamilton Gardener, a writer and reformer born in 1853, and Alice Paul, a much younger suffragist born in 1885. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news pictures taken in Washington, D.C., in the years before the First World War. Gardener had a long career as a novelist and lecturer and was appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, while Paul was rising as an organizer for women's suffrage. Their shared pose hints at the working alliances across generations that drove the campaign for the vote.

Created / published[between ca. 1908 and 1915]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1900-1920.Portrait photographs 1900-1920.Photographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsGardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton),--1853-1925. Paul, Alice,--1885-1977.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161700

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