Selected Images

Informal photograph of teenage Betty Bloomer, the future First Lady Betty Ford, standing on the ice smiling, while holding a hockey stick over her right shoulder. 1935
Betty Bloomer (Ford) in Grand Rapids, MI

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New Concord, Ohio, Girl Scout Troups 187 and 506 Honored with 2005 Take Pride in America Award, 09/29/2005
New Concord, Ohio, Girl Scout Troups 187 and 506 Honored with 2005 Take Pride in America Award, 09/29/2005

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Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress
Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress

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Woman suffrage in Washington, 1916–1918
Woman suffrage in Washington, 1916–1918

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Women Electric Welders at Hog Island Shipyard, 1918
Women Electric Welders at Hog Island Shipyard, 1918

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First WAVES Machine Gun Instructors
First WAVES Machine Gun Instructors

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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee

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Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran

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Amelia Earhart standing with Mayor Walker of New York City and crowd of well wishers, New York, NY.
Amelia Earhart standing with Mayor Walker of New York City and crowd of well wishers, New York, NY.

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Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.

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Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane
Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane

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Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917
Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer. She is the only woman welder in the plant. This is her first job outside her house
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer. She is the only woman welder in the plant. This is her first job outside her house

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Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. Exterior view
Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. Exterior view

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Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. -- Scene at the polls in Cheyenne / from a photo. by Kirkland.
Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. -- Scene at the polls in Cheyenne / from a photo. by Kirkland.

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Esther Bubley, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographer, three-quarter length portrait, kneeling with camera, facing right, at Bayway, New Jersey
Esther Bubley, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographer, three-quarter length portrait, kneeling with camera, facing right, at Bayway, New Jersey

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A. Adams / from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.
A. Adams / from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.

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[First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, bust portrait, facing slightly right]
[First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, bust portrait, facing slightly right]

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[Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947]
[Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947]

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Frances Benjamin Johnston, three-quarter length portrait, holding and looking down at camera, facing slightly left (Library of Congress)
Frances Benjamin Johnston, three-quarter length portrait, holding and looking down at camera, facing slightly left (Library of Congress)

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Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre
Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre

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