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
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- Women in Ancient History Image Gallery
- Cleopatra Pictures - Images of Cleopatra VII of Egypt in History, Art and Popular Culture
- Hatshepsut Image Gallery: Images of Hatshepsut and Her Buildings
- Nefertiti Image Gallery
- Sappho of Lesbos: Images of the Poet Sappho in Art and History
- Woman and Child Sculpture - Palestine 65 BCE - 325 CE
- Goddess Hathor
- Goddesses of Greece and Rome from Keightley's Mythology
- Athena Image - First Century Jewelry
Medieval History
(c) Jone Johnson Lewis
- Early English Costume: Women's Costume from the Time of William the Conqueror through Henry III
- Abelard and Heloise
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Matilda of Scotland
- Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc - Notre Dame Cathedral
- Isabella d'Este, Italian Renaissance arts patron
- Joan of Kent
- 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 - Images of Queen Isabella I of Castile
- Lady Jane Grey Picture Gallery
- Queen Mary I of England
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth I with Mary, Queen of Scots (fictional meeting)
- Mary, Queen of Scots, Image Gallery
16th/17th Centuries
(c) Jone Johnson Lewis
- Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - Wenceslaus Holler
- Woman in Spanish Kitchen
- Queen Christina of Sweden
- The Trial of a Witch - Salem, 1692
Modern World History
Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.
- Marie Antoinette
- Charlotte Corday
- Germaine Necker, Madame de Stael
- Mrs. Sage - First English Woman to Ride in a Balloon
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- George Eliot
- Queen of 19th Century Science
- Suffrage Map 1908
- Emily Davies
- Lucy Burns and Emmeline Pankhurst
- Votes for Women - Canada - 1917
- Coco Chanel
- Madame Curie
- Margaret Bourke-White on the Fall of Germany: Inmates of the Number Three Erla Work Camp, "Down With Adolf", "Broken Bridge"
- Korean Woman - 1950
- Germaine Greer at Home 1976
- Geraldine Ferraro and Margaret Thatcher in 1985
- Julia Gillard - Prime Minister of Australia
Royal Weddings
American History - Through the Civil War (-1864)
Image courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress. Modifications © Jone Lewis 2001.
- Pocahontas
- Betsy Ross
- Molly Pitcher - Women's History in Pictures
- George Washington with Mary Philipse
- Martha Washington
Early 19th Century
- Abigail Adams
- Dolley Madison
- Louisa Adams
- Mary Livermore
- Margaret Fuller
- Sarah Josepha Hale
- Lucretia Mott
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Amelia Bloomer
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Balloon Ascension of a Woman - Philadelphia 1851
- Godey's Lady's Book - 1860
Civil War Images
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Clara Barton | Clara Barton Home - Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Sara Emma Edmonds
- Belle Boyd Picture - Photograph of Belle Boyd, Civil War Spy
- Trial and Execution of Mary Surratt
- More Civil War images
- Civil War Women's Fashion: CDVs
- Women Civil War Reenactors and Their Costumes
- Judith Henry House - Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861
- For woman suffrage activists, see below
American History: Reconstruction (1865) Through 1899
Image courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress. Modifications © Jone Lewis 2004.
- Seven Sisters Colleges
- 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
- Victorian Musician
American History: Woman Suffrage
Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Modifications ©2003 Jone Johnson Lewis.
19th Century
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B. Anthony
- Lucy Stone
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Alice Stone Blackwell
- Harriet Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton with Harriot Stanton Blatch as infant
- Frederick Douglass
- Lucretia Mott
- Women Their Rights and Nothing Less - Motto of Susan B. Anthony Newspaper The Revolution
- Woman's Journal - Woman Suffrage Personified
- Women Voting in Boston - 1888
20th Century
- Woman Suffrage March 1913
- International Woman Suffrage Alliance 1914
- Woman Suffrage 1917
- Alice Paul
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Jeannette Rankin
- Abby Scott Baker, Abby Scott Baker - in prison dress
- Lucy Burns and Emmeline Pankhurst
- Maud Wood Park
- Paulina Wright Davis
- Abigail Scott Duniway
- Woman's Sphere - Suffrage Cartoon
- National Woman's Party Protestors Taken to Prison
- Woman Suffrage Flag
- 1922: National Woman's Party
American History: 1900 - 1929: World War I, Roaring 20s
© 2007 by Dover Publications, Inc. Used with permission.
- Cheyenne Mother and Child About 1905
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - 1911
- Sewing Class in Settlement House
- Ethel Barrymore
- Eleanor Roosevelt - Early Marriage
- Emma Goldman 1917
- Child Labor 1908 - Girl Spinners
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~1903
- Mary Baker Eddy Memorial - Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Martha Graham - 1923
- Mary Church Terrell, Mary Church Terrell
- Frances Willard | Frances Willard
- Ellen Wilson, Ellen Wilson
- Edith Wilson
- Lou Henry Hoover
- Amelia Earhart
- Mother Jones
- Woman Forever Songsheet Cover
- Woman Scientist
- Women Steel Workers Picketing - 1919
- Daisy Chain Procession - Vassar College Commencement 1909
- Joan of Arc Saved France - World War I Women of America Poster
- Women's Peace Party March
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
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Amelia Earhart - 1935 picture
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Sharecropper in 1937 - Great Depression Photo by Dorothea Lange
- WPA Women Painters Poster
- WPA Poster - Evening School Home Economics Class
- 1934: FERA camp for unemployed women: Atlanta (classroom); FERA camp (mealtime)
- First Lady Grace Coolidge
- Lillian Russell
- Marjorie Stinson
- Women Making Flags 1940
- Rosie the Riveter
- World War II Rosies - Women at Work in World War II
- Women Workers 1943 - Wipers in the Roundhouse at Lunch - Clinton Iowa
- Women in World War II - Homefront
- World War II Posters - Victory Begins at Home
- World War II Posters & Photographs: Women's Roles
- WASP - Woman Pilot in World War II
- Woman Painting at Skyline Drive, Virginia, 1944
- "Tokyo Rose" -- Iva Toguri; "Mug shot" of "Tokyo Rose"
- Nurse in Famous World War II Photo - 2005
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 at 1963 March on Washington | 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
- Helen Thomas at Presidential Press Conference with President Gerald Ford, 1976
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Nancy Kerrigan
- Bess Truman
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Pat Nixon
- Betty Ford
- Rosalynn Carter
- Ntozake Shange, 1977
- Betty Friedan 1980
- Nancy Reagan
- Geraldine Ferraro and Margaret Thatcher in 1985
- 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
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Frederick Douglass
- African American Women - Pictures About 1900
- Mary Church Terrell, Mary Church Terrell
- Sharecropper in 1937 - Great Depression Photo by Dorothea Lange
- Maggie Walker
- Edmonia Lewis
- Josephine Baker
- Bessie Smith: Carl Van Vechten portraits
- Civil Rights Movement
- Rosa Parks 1964 | Rosa Parks 1988
- Ntozake Shange, 1977
- Althea Gibson
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Maya Angelou
More Image Collections
Powerful Women
- Cleopatra Pictures
- Hatshepsut Image Gallery
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Geraldine Ferraro and Margaret Thatcher in 1985
- Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Election
- Women of the Decade - 2000-2009
- Sandra Day O'Connor and Elena Kagan 2009
- Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton at Statuary Hall
Fashion
- Early English Costume
- Women's Fashions of the 17th Century
- West Main Cree Woman's Hood - National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
- Godey's Lady's Book - 1860
- Civil War Women's Fashion: CDVs
- Women Civil War Reenactors and Their Costumes
- Bicycle Dress 1890s
- Woman Reading - 19th Century
- African American Women - Pictures About 1900
- Coco Chanel
- Woman or Object? - Miss America Protest 1969
Writers
- Sappho of Lesbos
- Christine de Pizan
- Germaine Necker, Madame de Stael
- George Eliot
- Mary Livermore
- Louisa May Alcott Grave - Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- Margaret Fuller
- Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Sarah Josepha Hale
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~1883
- Julia Ward Howe
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lucy Stone
- Louise Guiney - Louise Imogen Guiney
- Helen Thomas at Presidential Press Conference with President Gerald Ford, 1976
- Maya Angelou
Art and Artists
- Women Artists: Self Portraits
- Mary Cassatt Pictures
- Edmonia Lewis
- WPA Women Painters Poster
- Margaret Bourke-White Picture Gallery
- Woman Painting at Skyline Drive, Virginia, 1944
- Magdalena Abakanowicz Walking Figures - Armory Show New York 2010
- Frida Kahlo Paintings - German Exhibition 2010
- Cree Woman's Hood - About 1840
- African Mud Cloth with Figures
Sports
- Women in the Summer Olympics
- Althea Gibson Photo Gallery
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee Picture Gallery
- Nancy Kerrigan
- Girls Basketball Team - Milton High School, North Dakota, 1909
- Woman on Bicycle - Advertisement for Columbia Bicycles
- Bicycle Dress 1890s
- Mrs. Sage - First English Woman to Ride in a Balloon
- Balloon Ascension of a Woman - Philadelphia 1851
First Ladies
- First Ladies Picture Gallery
- First Ladies at Christmas
- Martha Washington
- Dolley Madison
- Louisa Adams
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Frances Cleveland | Wedding of Frances Folsom and Grover Cleveland
- Ellen Wilson | Ellen Wilson
- Edith Wilson
- Lou Henry Hoover
- Eleanor Roosevelt - Early Marriage | Eleanor Roosevelt
- First Lady Grace Coolidge
- Bess Truman
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy | Jacqueline Kennedy at President Kennedy's funeral
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Pat Nixon
- Betty Ford | Betty Ford
- Rosalynn Carter
- Nancy Reagan
- Barbara Bush
- Hillary Rodham Clinton | Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Election
- Michelle Obama Holds Lincoln Bible for Swearing-In Ceremony | Michelle Obama Inauguration Gown - 2009
