Suffragists picket the White House, Bastille Day, July 14, 1917

Photographic copy, origin unknown, likely made from the collections of the National Archives and Record Administration. Original caption reads, "Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, New Jersey, leading the sixteen members of the National Womans Party who participated in the picketing demonstration in front of the White House, Washington, District of Columbia, July 14,1917, which led to their arrest. These sixteen women were sent to the workhouse at Occoquan, on July 17, 1917, upon their refusal to pay fines of $25 each, but were pardoned on July 19, 1917." Delawarean Florence Bayard Hilles was one of the sixteen women arrested and later pardoned for the demonstration.