20th Century Women's History in Pictures
Jane Addams
Jane Addams, founder of Hull-House and advocate for the poor and for peace.
Susan B. Anthony Pictures
Pictures of Susan B. Anthony, woman suffrage pioneer.
Clara Barton
Pictures of Clara Barton, nursing history pioneer and founder of the American Red Cross.
Clara Barton Home - National Historic Site
Photo Gallery of pictures of Clara Barton's home in Glen Echo, Maryland, a National Historic Site. It was also the home of the American Red Cross at the end of the 19th century.
Alice Stone Blackwell Pictures
Pictures of Alice Stone Blackwell, feminist and editor.
Bonnie Blair
A gallery of images of Bonnie Blair, Olympic medalist in speed skating.
Margaret Bourke-White Picture Gallery
Margaret Bourke-White pictures: photographs by Margaret Bourke-White and portraits of Margaret Bourke-White, 20th century photographer.
Mary Cassatt Picture Gallery
A gallery of pictures of works by Mary Cassatt, woman artist and part of the Impressionist school.
Princess Diana Wedding Pictures
Photographs from the wedding of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles.
Julia Child's Kitchen
A picture gallery, photographs of Julia Child's kitchen at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Althea Gibson Picture Gallery
Althea Gibson picture gallery, showing the tennis great in photos from newspapers and by the photographer Carl Van Vechten.
Mother Jones Image Gallery
Pictures of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones), labor leader and activist.
Kennedy Family Portrait
Eunice Kennedy Shriver is third from the left in this Kennedy family portrait. Eunice Shriver was the founder of the Special Olympics.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Image Gallery
Images of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympics track and field champion.
Pictures of Nancy Kerrigan
Pictures of Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic figure skating champion.
Michelle Kwan Picture Gallery
Pictures of Michelle Kwan, popular figure skating champion in the 1990s and 2000s.
Dorothea Lange Photographs the Great Depression
Photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled the 20th century in her extraordinary images of ordinary people in ordinary situations. In this iconic image of the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange depicts a migrant farmworker in California in March, 1936. The image is known as Migrant Mother.
Aimee Semple McPherson - Evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson was the first famous Pentecostal evangelist. Most remember her today mainly for a well-publicized kidnapping scandal.
Lucy Parsons, Radical Woman
Lucy Parsons, anarchist, unsuccessfully organized in her husband's defense when he was accused of violence in the so-called Haymarket Riot of May, 1886, and hanged. She continued organizing against capitalism and government, and helped organize the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World).
Alice Paul Pictures
Pictures of Alice Paul, leader of the woman suffrage movement in the early 20th century and proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Anna Pavlova: Two Swans
Dancer Anna Pavlova is shown with a swan at her London home in 1927.
Jeannette Rankin Photos
A gallery of photos of Jeannette Rankin, a feminist and women's suffrage advocate also known for voting against entry into both World War I and World War II.
Sally Ride Picture Gallery
Photo gallery of Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, November 1949. She was appointed UN ambassador by President Harry S Truman, and in her work there had significant impact in producing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Edna St Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, 1914, at the home of Mitchell Kennerley in Mamaroneck, New York.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Picture Gallery
Pictures of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights advocate.
Mary Travers Picture Gallery
A gallery of images of Mary Travers in the years shortly before she died.
Maggie Lena Walker Pictures
Pictures of Maggie Lena Walker, African American business executive and bank president.
Edith Wilson Photo Gallery
Photos of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of Woodrow Wilson, alleged to have exercised presidential powers for her husband when he was ill with a stroke.
Lynette Woodard Image Gallery
Images of Lynette Woodard, women's basketball star and pioneer.
British Royal Weddings
British royal weddings of the 20th century, beginning with Princess Royal Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, known as Mary, marrying Henry Charles George, Viscount Lascelles, on February 28, 1922.
California Voter - 1913
California Woman Annie Marshall Reid Rolph - wife of San Francisco mayor - casts a vote, probably in 1911, the year California women won the vote.
First Ladies at Christmas
Images of First Ladies celebrating Christmas from 1962 to 2009.
Jailed for Freedom
National Woman's Party 1917 pin commemorating suffragists who were "jailed for freedom," arrested for demonstrating outside the White House.
Pictures of Women at the Summer Olympics
A gallery of memorable images from the summer Olympics, featuring women athletes.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Pictures of the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March, 1911, in New York City.
Woman Suffrage Demonstration in Pictures
On March 3, 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association - NAWSA - sponsored a woman suffrage parade and demonstration in Washington, DC, to coordinate with the arrival of Woodrow Wilson for his presidential inauguration. Here are some contemporary photographs of that landmark women's suffrage event.
Women and Bicycling Picture Gallery
A picture gallery depicting women on bicycles, showing the different costumes considered acceptable in the early days of women's bicycle riding.
Women and the Civil Rights Movement
A gallery of pictures of women in the civil rights movement.
Women Astronauts
Photographs of women astronauts, women who have flown in space.
Women Workers 1934
Kellogg Company inspectors check the cereal boxes before they go to sealing.
Women's Suffrage Activists
Pictures of key women who helped to win the vote.
World War II Posters - Victory Begins at Home
In World War II, posters promoted the idea that victory begins at home, with sacrifices, effort, and preserving certain goods for the war. Here are some of the posters of World War II promoting the home front effort to support victory abroad.
World War II Posters - Women in the Military
Posters used to recruit women into military work during World War II.
Rosie the Riveter and Her Sisters: Picture Gallery
Pictures of women working in production work in factories during World War II, part of the homefront war effort.
Sewing class, 1928
Image of a sewing class in Chicago, 1928.