Lucy Branham in Occoquan prison dress.
Summary: Photograph of Lucy Branham speaking at outdoor meeting during the NWP "Prison Special" tour. Branham is above a large crowd, wearing prison dress and suffrage sash, with suffrage flag and camera on tripod behind her (right).
Lucy G. Branham was one of the members of the "Prison Special" tour of NWP speakers in 1919. She had been arrested for picketing in 1917. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.
Created/Published
[1919]
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 10 (Mar. 8, 1919): 11. Caption: "Lucy Branham in Prison Costume Speaking at a Prison Special Meeting."
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group II, Container II:276, Folder: Group Photographs Nos. 100-110
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 276031
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.276031