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The house Florence grew up in, on 7 Spruce Street, Augusta Maine | Florence married Robert Treat Whitehouse in 1894. | Publicity material created for Florence's first book, The God of Things |
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Press photo for Florence as chairman of the Maine branch of the National Woman's Party | Florence, c. 1912 | Florence participated in this picket line in Chicago, 1916, where President Wilson was delivering a speech. Her conservative suffrage colleagues were aghast at her unladylike behavior. |
Florence in her Red Cross uniform. From 1917 to 1919 she volunteered with the Red Cross, serving as publicity coordinator and then Chair of the Information Bureau | Florence sent this telegram to Alice Paul when Congress finally passed the Federal Amendment in 1919 | Florence and Robert, dressed for an evening out |
Florence and her middle son Bob, c. 1940 | One of Florence's paintings | A seascape, one of her favorite subjects |
Florence Brooks Whitehouse
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