File:Miss Virginia Arnold 147008v.jpg

3.5 x 5 in.

• Call Number Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:147, Folder: Arnold, Virginia
• Source Collection Records of the National Woman's Party

• Summary: Three-quarter-length portrait of Virginia Arnold of North Carolina, facing right, looking toward camera, in hat and coat holding pocketbook.
• Title transcribed from item.
• Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10.
• Photograph published in Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), between pages 344 and 345.
• According to the lists of officers published periodically in issues of The Suffragist, Arnold served as national executive secretary of the Congressional Union (later National Woman's Party) from 1916 to 1918.
• Virginia Arnold, of North Carolina, was a student at George Washington and Columbia Univs. She was a school teacher, later organizer and executive secretary of the N.W.P. in Washington, D.C. Served three days June, 1917, with first pickets of White House sentenced to jail terms. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354.
• The street address for the photographer, Harris & Ewing, is listed on the verso as 1311 F Street N.W.