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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…
We Want Our Rights
This was a drawing on the front cover of Life magazine. 1912. World War I would start for the rest of the world in three years, and the Women's Rights Movement in American was beginning again after Susan B. Anthony died less than ten years before,…
The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing signatures to petitions to be presented to the constitutional convention - scene at Sherry's
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…
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…
Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [Holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]
A woman protesting the treatment of women who are suffrage prisoners. 4.25 x 7 in. 1917. This was taken the year before World War I ended. This shows the treatment of the women who wanted their suffrage, they were treated as if they were criminals…
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…
Be a Trained Nurse
A poster to convince women to become trained nurses for the war effort. 76 x 54 cm. Lithograph. 1917 or 1918. World War I is happening and the war effort needs women to treat soldiers. The government wanted women for the war effort, and the poster…
Back Our Girls Over There United War Work Campaign
A poster to convince people to help the women over in Europe helping with the war effort. Lithograph. 1918. World War I, everyone is helping with the war effort, even women who were previously barred from the workforce. Nursing was not the only job…
American Nurse, American Ambulance, Paris
An American nurse treating a soldier during World War I. 5 x 7 in. Glass negatives. 1914. The United States of American had not officially entered World War I and would not do so until 1917, but the United States of America did fund their Allies and…
[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]
A political cartoon about the public's acceptance of women's suffrage after women's performance during World War I. Digitization of a drawing. 1917. World War I was still happening and would not end until the next year, but there had already been…