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Lucy G. Branham was raised by a suffragist mother and a physician father in Baltimore, Maryland. Following graduate school at Johns Hopkins and Columbia, she worked on various suffrage activities. She was arrested in the National Woman's Party campaign of silent picketing at the White House in September 1917 and served two months in the Occoquan Workhouse and the District jail. Branham participated in the NWP "Prison Special" nationwide tour. Activists spoke about their experiences being arrested for demonstrating for the right to vote. This photograph shows Branham speaking at an outdoor meeting during the tour. She is pictured above a large crowd, wearing prison dress and suffrage sash, with a suffrage flag and camera on a tripod behind her.