Fourth of July Mayhem, c. 1864
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Marilyn Monroe’s Champagne ‘Thank you’ note
Maya Angelou, c. 1950
Famed poet Maya Angelou, a.k.a. Miss Calypso, once made her living doing a calypso club act in San Francisco. Source: PBS.
Plate 1 from Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam, 1719
Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 1 from Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam, 1719.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator. With a grant from the city of Amsterdam, she spent two years in Surinam, a Dutch Colony in South America, where she recorded, illustrated, and noted the medicinal uses of the plants and animals. A single mother (she divorced her husband), Merian took her youngest daughter with her. Source: National Museum of Women in the Arts
Lady Florence Norman, c. 1916
Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter in 1916, travelling to work at offices in London where she was a supervisor. The scooter was a birthday present from her husband, the journalist and Liberal politician Sir Henry Norman. Source: Retronaut
Women’s Timber Corps, c. 1940s
Archive photo of women working in the Women’s Timber Corps, as part of the WWII Land Army. Women who joined the WTC were commonly known as Lumber Jills. Collection: Forestry Commission England
Gymnasium at Teachers College, 1904
Early Planking? This is a “corrective exercise room” from a women’s only gym in New York City. Source: Museum of the City of New York.
