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
(c) Clipart.com; Modifications (c) Jone Lewis
- Women in Ancient History Image Gallery
- Hatshepsut Image Gallery: Images of Hatshepsut and Her Buildings
- Nefertiti Image Gallery
- Sappho of Lesbos: Images of the Poet Sappho in Art and History
- Goddesses of Greece and Rome from Keightley's Mythology
Medieval History
(c) Jone Johnson Lewis
- Early English Costume: Women's Costume from the Time of William the Conqueror through Henry III
- Isabella d'Este, Italian Renaissance arts patron
- 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:
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth I with Mary, Queen of Scots (fictional meeting)
- Mary Queen of Scots
16th/17th Centuries
(c) Jone Johnson Lewis
- Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - Wenceslaus Holler
- Queen Christina of Sweden
Modern World History
Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.
American History - Through the Civil War (-1864)
Image courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress. Modifications © Jone Lewis 2001.
- Pocahontas
- Betsy Ross
- 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
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
- Mary Cassatt Pictures
- 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
Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Modifications ©2003 Jone Johnson Lewis.
- Woman Suffrage Activists
- Woman Suffrage March 1913
- Woman Suffrage 1917
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B. Anthony
- Alice Paul
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Lucy Stone
- Lucretia Mott
- Jeannette Rankin
- Harriet Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton with Harriot Stanton Blatch as infant
- 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
Frances Willard
American History: 1930 - 1945: Depression, World War II
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
- 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 Rosies - Women at Work in World War II
- World War II Posters - Victory Begins at Home
- World War II Posters & Photographs: Women's Roles
- "Tokyo Rose" -- Iva Toguri; "Mug shot" of "Tokyo Rose"
American History Since World War II
Courtesy NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA-GRC)
- Althea Gibson
- Executive Order 10980 dated December 14, 1961
- Civil Rights Movement
- 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
- Julia Child's Kitchen
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Nancy Kerrigan
- Bess Truman
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Pat Nixon
- Betty Ford
- Rosalynn Carter
- Nancy Reagan
- Barbara Bush
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Mary Travers, folk singer
- Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Election
African American Women's History in Pictures
Courtesy Library of Congress
