Nurses across the Rhine
These women, members of the 51st U.S. Army Field Hospital, were the first U.S. Army nurses to cross the Rhine River in Germany on March 14, 1945.
Nursing class
These nurses are being trained on the use of a respirator for a polio patient.
“Perseverance and ingenuity”
This citation accompanied the award of the Distinguished Service Cross to Virginia Hall. Hall was a civilian who worked for the Office of Strategic Services in France...
Portrait of a 20th-century Native American
Emma Sheppard attended the Cheyenne River School, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in central South Dakota, when she was photographed on April 30, 1915. The...
Postcard from Wallace Ellis to Hon. Homer P. Snyder regarding woman suffrage
Wallace Ellis sent this postcard opposing the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution to New York Congressman Homer P. Snyder. The amendment would grant...
Protesting down Fifth Avenue
In 1910, the Women’s Political Union organized the first suffrage parade in New York City. Two years later, when this photo was taken, the third annual parade...
Question of equal pay
Thomas Johnstone, representative of the United Automobile, Aircraft, Agriculture Implement Workers of America, wrote this letter to the National War Labor Board...