Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - in Jail, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing.

Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - in Jail, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing.

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Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - in Jail, 1917. American suffragist and women's rights advocate. Lucy Burns led the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS), was active in the National American Women Suffrage Association, and helped form the National Woman's Party. She was arrested in 1917 while picketing the White House and was sent to Occoquan Workhouse.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Harris & Ewing, attributed to: American: Photographer, photography company, photography studio
Subject
  1. Lucy Burns: American: suffragist and women's rights advocate
People Related
  1. Martha Ewing: American: Photographer
  2. George W. Harris: : Photographer

Medium
  1. Photograph

Picture Type
  1. Glass negatives.
  2. Portrait
  3. Still image

Category Hierarchy

History & Politics Politics Political Events

Society & Culture Law & Crime

Society & Culture Issues & Causes

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4529x8137
File Size : 35,989kb


Aliases

  1. 2016868634
  1. 1010016932
  1. 2-926-886
  1. 2016868634
  1. 2926886

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