Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Lucy Ewing of Chicago, wearing v-neck blouse with necklace and wide-brimmed straw hat with ribbon.
Lucy Hyde Ewing, of Chicago, Ill. (daughter of attorney Adlai Thomas Ewing) was first cousin, once removed (not the niece) of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, vice president of the U.S. under Grover Cleveland, and officer in the Illinois branch of the NWP. She was arrested picketing Aug. 17, 1917 and sentenced to 30 days in the Occoquan Workhouse. She was among those speakers who toured with the "Prison Special" in Feb-Mar 1919. [Her granddaughter, Louise Ewing Burg, corrected this text March 8, 2017.]
Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 358.
Call Number Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:150, Folder: Ewing, Lucy
Source Collection Records of the National Woman's Party
Notes
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. A caption on a duplicate print in the same folder reads: "Miss Lucy Ewing, of Chicago. Illinois Chairman of the National Woman's Party, who served a thirty day sentence in the Government Workhouse at Occoquan for holding a banner in front of the Executive Mansion, demanding the enfranchisement of women."
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 8 (Feb. 22, 1919): 4, and The Suffragist, 7, no. 37 (Sept. 13, 1919): 8.
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