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Image: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins Mrs. John Winters Brannan 160059v

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Description: Summary: Outdoor photograph of three National Woman's Party members in prison dress carrying wooden chairs, on rooftop of building. (Left to right): Doris Stevens, Alison Turnbull Hopkins, and Eunice Dana Brannan. Doris Stevens of New York City, previously of Omaha, Neb., was arrested for picketing the White House on July 14, 1917 and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse; she was pardoned by President Wilson after 3 days. She was arrested in New York in March 1919, during the picket demonstration of the Metropolitan Opera House during Wilson's appearance there, but was not sentenced. Allison Turnbull Hopkins, of Morristown, NJ, was state chairman of the NWP. Her husband was a supporter of President Wilson and he served on the Democratic National Committee in 1916. She was arrested July 14, 1917, for picketing, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse; she was pardoned after 3 days. Eunice Dana Brannan, state chair of the New York branch of the NWP, was arrested picketing July 14, 1917, sentenced to 60 days, and pardoned after 3. She was arrested again picketing Nov. 10, 1917 and sentenced to 45 days. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 356, 361-62, 368.
Title: Left to Right: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins [Alison Turnbull Hopkins], N.J., Mrs. John Winters Brannan [Eunice Dana Brannan], N.Y.
Credit: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160059
Author: Associated Press Photos (Photographer)
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