Pauline Adams (1874–1957) was an Irish-American
suffragist. On 4 September 1917, she and twelve other activists were arrested for attempting to "flaunt their banners" in front of President
Woodrow Wilson's reviewing stand before a Selective Service parade in
Washington, D.C., and they chose prison rather than paying a 25-dollar fine. This photograph depicts Adams seated at a table, wearing prison uniform and holding a cup in her raised right hand. The image was published in the newspaper
The Suffragist in 1919.
Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden