Mary Winsor supports suffrage protestors

“It is quite enough to pay taxes when you are not represented, let alone pay a fine if you object to this arrangement.”

– Mary Winsor

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Notes:

• In this photograph, Mary holds a sign in support of suffrage protestors who had been imprisoned. Taken in Washington D.C. in 1917. Mary herself would later be arrested and imprisoned as well.

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Sources: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. Mary Winsor Penn. ’17 holding Suffrage Prisoners banner. [Oct.-Nov] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000225/>.