Summary: Photograph of Matilda Gardner and three other unidentified women in background marching in suffrage procession, holding a baton, wearing feathered hat, long white dress, and sash with lettering across chest.
Matilda Hall Gardner, of Washington, D.C., formerly of Chicago, was the daughter of Frederick Hall, editor of the Chicago Tribune, and wife of Gilson Gardner, Washington representative of Scripps newspapers. Educated in Chicago, Paris, and Brussels, Gardner was one of the original core of activists who worked with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns when they first came to Washington to work for the Congressional Committee. She was a member of the national executive committee of the NWP beginning in 1914. She was arrested July 14, 1917, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse; and Jan. 13, 1919, and sentenced to 5 days in District Jail.
Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 359.
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