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Pickets arrested at White House for woman suffrage demonstration, 1917 – Historic Reproduction

Pickets arrested at White House for woman suffrage demonstration, 1917 — historic photograph
Pickets arrested at White House for woman suffrage demonstration, 1917. Historic photograph from the White House 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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This historic photograph of Pickets arrested at White House for woman suffrage demonstration, 1917 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Pickets arrested at White House for woman suffrage demonstration, 1917

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Few images from the suffrage campaign capture its confrontational edge as directly as this 1917 photograph of pickets taken into custody at the White House. The National Woman's Party had begun picketing the gates that year, holding banners that questioned President Wilson's commitment to democracy, and the arrests that followed drew wide newspaper attention. Women who were jailed in the District of Columbia later described harsh conditions, and their treatment helped turn public opinion toward the national suffrage amendment, which Congress passed in 1919.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1917
SubjectsReference copy may be in SSF - Woman's Suffrage. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Suffrage; D.C.--Washington--White House; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125760

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