Photo: White House Suffrage Demonstration
date: label: date made
content: 1919
label: associated date
content: January 13, 1919
name: label: unspecified
content: National Woman's Party
notes: label: Description
content: This photo shows crowds gathered outside the White House for a suffrage demonstration on January 13, 1919. During the protest shown in the photo, 22 women were arrested.
label: Description
content: The watch fires of freedom marked a return on woman suffrage pickets to the White House. They burned copies of his speeches in small cauldrons calling attention to his hypocrisy in touting democratic principles abroad while simultaneously refusing to secure the Senate votes needed to pass the woman suffrage amendment.
label: Description
content: The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women was ratified in August 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia
label: Associated Place
content: United States: District of Columbia, White House
topic: label: subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
label: subject association
content: Voting Rights
label: subject association
content: Equal Rights Amendment
label: general subject association
content: Demonstrations
label: general subject association
content: Women's History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3016.062
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3016.062
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5 in x 7 in; 12.7 cm x 17.78 cm