File:Mrs. Lillian Ascough, chairman of the Connecticut branch of the Woman's Party.jpg

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"Mrs. W. D. Ascough of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the Connecticut branch of the Woman's Party": Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Lillian Ascough, facing right, head turned toward camera. 6 x 4 in., uncropped.

Lillian Ascough of Detroit, Mich., served as Connecticut State Chairman, NWP. Studied for concert stage in London and Paris. Abandoned concert stage to devote time to suffrage. Sentenced to fifteen days, August 1918, Lafayette Square demonstration, and five days, February 1919, in watchfire demonstration. She was a speaker in the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.

Verso (struck out): "A speaker in the demonstration this afternoon."

Photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 26 (June 26, 1915): 5; The Suffragist, 4, no. 44 (Oct. 28, 1916): 7; and The Suffragist, 4, no. 50 (Dec. 9, 1916): 9.

Date

[ca. 1915]

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Author



Alternative names	Birth name: David Bell Edmonston; David B. Edmonston
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	22 May 1876	14 April 1953
Location of birth/death	Union City	Chevy Chase
Work location	Washington, D.C.
Authority file	: Q65961611 VIAF: 39701619 ISNI: 0000000418103438

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Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

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	12:10, 12 August 2018	1,564 × 2,331 (283 KB)	Victuallers	Cropped 17 % horizontally, 16 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	21:57, 20 December 2014	1,881 × 2,759 (474 KB)	Slowking4