Things I like: suffragettes, war workers, factory girls, socialites who got stuff done, ladies who ruled countries, and women who changed the world, even if it was just a little bit. Click on photos for sources.
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Six young women carrying a banner advertising a meeting of the Ruth Hanna McCormick Volunteers in Chicago, Illinois. The women are: Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, Helen Farnum, Mrs.Edwin Hersey, Glee Viles, and Jane Schuttler.
Chicago Daily News photo, 1928.
Ruth Hanna McCormick served in the US House of Representatives from 1929-1931.
Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944
-Suffragette
-First woman to have her photo on the cover of Time Magazine (1928)
-Represented Illinois in the House from 1929-1931
This is a photograph released by the U.S. government in 1960 that shows the Little Boy atom bomb, the type detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945....
Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.
1980s.
Wedding Bonnet, 1845, British
V&A Museum
Day 43: May 18
Leg braces used by Franklin Roosevelt
(Steel, leather)
FDR could not stand without the support of leg braces...
