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Jail door pin:
Modeled after the British suffragette pin known as the Holloway brooch, Alice Paul created this jail door pin for NWP members who were imprisoned for picketing the White House. Eighty-nine pins were presented to the women on December 9, 1917 at a meeting held at the Belasco Theatre in Washington, DC. This pin belonged to Betsy Graves Reyneau, arrested for picketing on July 14, 1917, and sentenced to three days in District jail. |