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Description: Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Dora Kelly Lewis, facing front, in hat decorated with flowers. Dora Lewis was from a prominent Philadelphia family. She held a series of high offices in the National Woman's Party. She was arrested several times for suffrage actions. She served three days in jail for picketing in July 1917; was arrested Nov. 10, 1917 and sentenced to 60 days; was arrested at the Lafayette Square meeting in August 1918, and sentenced to 15 days; and was arrested during the watchfire demonstrations of January 1919, and sentenced to five days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 364.
Title: Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Phila[delphia] [Dora Lewis]
Credit: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.153014
Author: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)
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