Women's History Pictures

The History of Women in Images and Pictures

History of Women in Portraits, Images, and Pictures: an index to the images on this site, organized by time period.

Ancient/Classical History and Mythology

View Full-Size (c) Clipart.com; Modifications (c) Jone Lewis Women in Ancient History Image Gallery Hatshepsut Image Gallery: Images of Hatshepsut and Her Buildings Nefertiti Bas-Relief Image of Nefertiti Nefertiti Image: Detail Sappho of Lesbos: Images of the Poet Sappho in Art and History Goddesses of Greece and Rome from Keightley's Mythology

Medieval History

View Full-Size (c) Jone Johnson Lewis Early English Costume: Women's Costume from the Time of William the Conqueror through Henry III Elizabeth Woodville: Portraits and Images of Queen Elizabeth, Consort of Edward IV Elizabeth of York: Portraits and Images of Queen Elizabeth, Consort of Henry VII Queen Isabella I: Isabella of Spain Isabella Meeting with Columbus Columbus Explaining Plans to Isabella Queen Isabella on Her Deathbed Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I with Mary, Queen of Scots (fictional meeting) Mary Queen of Scots

16th/17th Centuries

View Full-Size (c) Jone Johnson Lewis Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - Wenceslaus Holler: Part 1, Part 2 Queen Christina of Sweden

Modern World History

View Full-Size Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. Marie Antoinette Charlotte Corday Germaine Necker, Madame de Stael George Eliot Korean Woman - 1950

American History - Through the Civil War (-1864)

View Full-Size Image courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress. Modifications © Jone Lewis 2001. Pocahontas Martha Washington Abigail Adams Dolley Madison Louisa Adams Mary Livermore Margaret Fuller Lucretia Mott Antoinette Brown Blackwell Amelia Bloomer Sojourner Truth Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1862 Harriet Tubman Mary Todd Lincoln Clara Barton Sara Emma Edmonds Mary Surratt - series of 4 images More Civil War images Women Civil War reenactors and their costumes For woman suffrage activists, see below

American History: Reconstruction (1865) Through 1899

View Full-Size Image courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress. Modifications © Jone Lewis 2004. Harriet Tubman Belva Lockwood Frances Wright Calamity Jane Patent Medicine Label Berta Larson Wisconsin Pioneers Woman on the Prairie Maria Mitchell Woman on Bicycle - Advertisement for Columbia Bicycles Frances Cleveland, Wedding of Frances Folsom and Grover Cleveland Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~1883 Julia Ward Howe

American History: Woman Suffrage

View Full-Size Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Modifications ©2003 Jone Johnson Lewis. Woman Suffrage Activists Suffrage Protests 1913-1917 Woman Suffrage 1917 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt Matilda Joslyn Gage Lucy Stone Harriet Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton with Harriot Stanton Blatch (as infant) Alice Stone Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell Frederick Douglass Abby Scott Baker, Abby Scott Baker - in prison dress Maud Wood Park Paulina Wright Davis Abigail Scott Duniway 1922: National Woman's Party

American History: 1900 - 1929: World War I, Roaring 20s

View Full-Size Frances Willard Ethel Barrymore Eleanor Roosevelt - Early Marriage Emma Goldman 1917 Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~1903 Mary Church Terrell, Mary Church Terrell Frances Willard, Frances Willard Wilson Inauguration Ellen Wilson, Ellen Wilson Edith Wilson Lou Henry Hoover Mother Jones - includes Calvin Coolidge Mother Jones - includes Grace Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, jr.

American History: 1930-1945 - Depression, World War II

View Full-Size Image courtesy of US National Archives. Women and World War I Amelia Earhart Emma Goldman Carl Van Vechten portrait Bessie Smith: Carl Van Vechten portraits Edmonia Lewis Maggie Walker Eleanor Roosevelt Amelia Earhart at Carlsbad Cavern National Park, Amelia Earhart's Home 1934: FERA camp for unemployed women: Atlanta (classroom); FERA camp (mealtime) First Lady Grace Coolidge Lillian Russell Marjorie Stinson Rosie the Riveter World War II Posters & Photographs: Women's Roles World War II Posters - Victory Begins at Home "Tokyo Rose" -- Iva Toguri; "Mug shot" of "Tokyo Rose"

American History Since World War II

View Full-Size Courtesy NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA-GRC) Althea Gibson Executive Order 10980 dated December 14, 1961 1963 March on Washington: Joan Baez playing guitar, Joan Baez with Bob Dylan Jacqueline Kennedy at President Kennedy's funeral with Caroline and John and with Robert F. Kennedy Rosa Parks Women Astronauts at NASA Sally Ride Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan Anna Fisher Kathryn Sullivan Bess Truman Mamie Eisenhower Jacqueline Kennedy Lady Bird Johnson Pat Nixon Betty Ford Rosalynn Carter Nancy Reagan Barbara Bush Hillary Rodham Clinton