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1860s:
Women who fought as men in the Civil War
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War
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1800s
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Smithsonian Magazine
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1936-1939:
Posters from the Spanish Civil War
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American Civil War Veterans shake hands, 1913
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c. late 1800s:
Women in matching dresses
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1890s:
Banner Women
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Early Photographs of Women’s Hair, 1800s
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1917:
French women working in ammunition factories
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c. 1930s:
Two women
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1905:
Welsh women at tea
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c. 1910 :
Women with weights
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1919:
London Police Women
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1930s:
Women synchronising knee lifting
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1940 - 1945:
Women Cleaning Blast Furnaces
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c. 1900s:
Women bowling
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c. 1940s:
‘Women are teachable”
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1937:
Women in shorts cause car to “crash” into pole
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c.1930s:
Kayan Lahwi women, Burma
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Women’s Mug Shots, L.A, 1930′s / 1940s
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Women Driving Automobiles, 1907-1915
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1930:
Women Wearing Masks on Venice Beach
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1902:
Women of the Future
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1950s:
Women’s dress supports
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1913-1915:
Women’s Hats
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Tips for Single Women, 1938
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Criminal Women of North Shields, 1903-1904
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1861:
Secret Message in Lincoln’s Pocketwatch
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1862:
Settlers fleeing the US Dakota war massacre
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1862:
Sioux Internment
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1858:
Last Napoleonic Veterans
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1893:
Building the first Ferris Wheel
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1898:
Ice-cream seller, Constantinople
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c.1850:
Man smiling
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1883-1886:
Animals and Humans in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge
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1890:
“Bing, Charlie, Billy, Doglee, Goat, Gad, Sir, and Ben”
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1883:
Illustrated Guide to Insane People
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1854-1918:
Satirical Maps of Europe