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| Keywords: Miss Elsie M. Hill, 152005v.jpg Informal portrait half-length Elsie M Hill taken outdoors on picket line wearing wide-brimmed hat with fur trim coat fur stole and tricolor purple white gold sash Elsie Hill of Norwalk Conn was the daughter of Congressman Ebenezer J Hill of Connecticut She was a graduate of Vassar College and taught French in a District of Columbia high school She was a member of the executive committee of the Congressional Union 1914-15 and later national organizer for the NWP She was sentenced August 1918 to 15 days in District Jail for speaking at Lafayette Square meeting; in February 1919 she was sentenced to 8 days in Boston for participation in the welcome demonstration of President Woodrow Wilson Source Doris Stevens Jailed for Freedom New York Boni and Liveright 1920 361 Title transcribed from image 1 photograph print 4 x 6 in accession number Call Number Location National Woman's Party Records Group I Container I 152 Folder Hill Elsie M Source Collection Records of the National Woman's Party institution Library of Congress Manuscript Division LOC-image mnwp 152005 PD-old suffragettes Suffragettes wearing fur Fur fashion in 1917 Fur scarves | ||||
