Family portrait
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Public Buildings Service photographed Federal buildings, officials, and workers and their families. This image of...
“Field Name: Diane”
On September 30, 1944, Virginia Hall wrote this report about her resistance work in German-occupied France. Hall worked for the Office of Strategic Services training,...
First woman Cabinet member
President Franklin D. Roosevelt notified the U.S. Senate on March 4, 1933, that he had nominated Frances Perkins of New York to be Secretary of Labor. She was...
"Give the boys a chance"
1934 found this country in the middle of the Great Depression. The competition for jobs was so fierce that some demanded women leave their jobs so that unemployed men...
Her day
This photograph of a bride on her wedding day in New Ulm, Minnesota, is one of almost 22,000 images in the National Archives from Documerica, a social and...
Integrating women into a peacetime military
In 1948, Congress passed the “Women's Armed Services Integration Act,” allowing women to serve in the military during peacetime for the first time in U.S....
“It's Our Fight Too!”
The U.S. Government published posters like this one to motivate women to work in defense jobs.