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[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Statue in Washington, D.C.]
Women are burning a speech by President Wilson to protest his stance on women's suffrage. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1918. World War I is almost over, and in two years the Nineteenth Amendment will be ratified giving women the right to…
Bertha Moller, left, and Bertha Arnold hold party banner which was held at the Senate Office Building, ca. 1917.
Women holding senators accountable for keeping women from voting. 5 x 7 in. Digitization of a photograph. 1917. The United States has entered World War I or will enter it soon. Women will receive suffrage in three years. Women are not only fighting…
Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison
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…
The Spirit of 1913
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…
Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: making fibre powder containers for 3" Stokes gun - women crimping top on fibre containers at W.C. Ritchie & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Women worked in munitions making, typically a man's job, during World War I. 12.6 x 17.7 cm. Gelatin silver print. 1914. World War I will begin soon for the rest of the world, and when will be albe to vot in six years. Women were working in muntions…
Homeless and friendless
Illustration shows child huddled on door stoop wearing ragged clothing.
The above image shows the mental and emotional toll poverty has on all those it affects, but especially children. There is also clearly no one reaching out to help the child…
The above image shows the mental and emotional toll poverty has on all those it affects, but especially children. There is also clearly no one reaching out to help the child…
Home in Charleston, West Virginia. Mother has TB, father works on WPA (Work Progress Administration).
United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
The family in the above photograph would have been a…
The family in the above photograph would have been a…
Weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico
United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b22890
One of the tasks the Works Progress Administration…
One of the tasks the Works Progress Administration…
Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colo., U.S.A.
Photograph taken eight years after Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago. The image shows three people walking down a row of deteriorating buildings, likely houses. It is living conditions, like those shown in the above photograph, that would…
Progress and poverty - a decoration day study
Print shows waves of veterans marching through a memorial arch on "Decoration Day", carrying banners that state "We will continue to save the country, so long as there is a dollar in the Treasury" and "Army of Pensioners". On the right, Uncle Sam…