Keeping his promise
During Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign for President, he promised to nominate a woman for the Supreme Court. President Reagan followed through on this pledge on...
Long distance calls
This photograph shows a telephone switchboard where overseas phone calls were handled during World War II. Many women patriotically joined the industrial workforce to...
Marching for women’s right to vote
This photograph of the fourth annual suffrage parade in New York City in 1913 shows some of the march’s 10,000 participants. In the early 20th century, suffragists...
Minnesota ratifies
The 19th amendment to the Constitution guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in...
More work for mom
Traditionally, “women’s work” on the farm included chores like caring for smaller animals, vegetable gardening, child rearing, housework, and food preservation....
Mother and daughter, ca. 1890
These portraits of an unknown young girl and her mother, taken about 1890 by the Treasury Department, are from a series of photographs of Government buildings,...
No more hair pins or combs
On April 7, 1908, Thomas P. Taylor filed a patent application for a “new and useful improvement in hair-rolls.” In his application, he states that his goal is to...