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Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a…

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

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Poster about a vocational school teaching women how to farm. Digitized drawing or poster. 1918. The World War I had just ended or would end soon, and many young men had died in the war so women would need to keep step into their jobs they left…

Women signing a petition to receive suffrage in their state New York. Halftone Photomechanical Prints. 1894. This was after the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified, soon it will be the twentieth century and with it World War I and the…

Print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled "Monopoly" over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled "Arrogance", and carrying a shield labeled "Corruption of the Legislature" and a lance labeled…

The women's rights movement was perceived to be strong in 1913. Halftone photomechanical print. 1913. World War I would begin for the rest of the world in two years, and in seven years women would receive the right to vote from the ratification of…

Proof for a published image in which a clothed wolf wearing a top hat labeled "Socialism," carries the book Progress and Poverty by H. George in his coat pocket. Red Riding Hood stands beside him on a path in the forest. Caroline and Erwin Swann; The…

Political Cartoon from a magazine, 9045 x 6003, digitized version of a drawing in a magazine, February 20, 1915,
World War I was starting on the other side of the world, but America would not join until later. There was a referendum on a suffrage…

The political cartoon dipicts two women running for office highlights the fear some men might have had at the time it was drawn. Digitization of a political cartoon, a lithographic print. 1869. This was just after the Civil War of the United States…

Women arrested for wanting to vote are released from prison. 4 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will do so later that year. Women were arrested because they wanted to vote, one of the women in…