Selected Images

Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress

Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress

New Concord, Ohio, Girl Scout Troups 187 and 506 Honored with 2005 Take Pride in America Award, 09/29/2005

New Concord, Ohio, Girl Scout Troups 187 and 506 Honored with 2005 Take Pride in America Award, 09/29/2005

Informal photograph of teenage Betty Bloomer, the future First Lady Betty Ford, standing on the ice smiling, while holding a hockey stick over her right shoulder. 1935

Betty Bloomer (Ford) in Grand Rapids, MI

Black and white photograph of two WAVES machine gunnery instructors wearing fatigue jumpsuits and carrying lengths of machine gun ammunition over their shoulders.]

First WAVES Machine Gun Instructorse

Black and white photograph of two women electrical welders seated on benches at the Hog Island Shipyard, 1918 ]

Women Electric Welders at Hog Island Shipyard, 1918

Black and white photograph of women suffragists protesting outside the White House, 1916-1918

Woman suffrage in Washington, 1916–1918

Black and white photograph of Amelia Earhart, holding a large bouquet of flowers, standing with Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City.]

Amelia Earhart standing with Mayor Walker of New York City and crowd of well wishers, New York, NY.

Black and white photograph of pilot Jacqueline Cochran in a flight suit with arms akimbo, standing in front of a U.S. Air Force jet.]

Jacqueline Cochran

African American aircraft assembler in blue coveralls and red bandana working on a Vengence dive bomber at the Vultee-Nashville plant, 1943.]

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee

Pennsylvania suffragists protesting in front of the White House, 1917. Their banner reads “Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty?”]

Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917

Library of Congress

Black and white portrait of abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative Sojourner Truth, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on a cane, 1864 ]

Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane

Black and white photograph of Florence Thompson, a destitute pea picker, with three of her children, 1936. This image is commonly known as “Migrant Mother.”]

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.

Wood engraving entitled “Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. Scene at the polls in Cheyenne.” From the cover of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, the week of November 24, 1888.]

Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. -- Scene at the polls in Cheyenne / from a photo. by Kirkland.

Library of Congress

African American woman dressed in a cloak, bonnet and apron, holding a wicker basket standing outside the building known as the Slave Pen in Alexandria, Virginia. Taken sometime between 1861 and 1869.]

Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. Exterior view

Library of Congress

Black and white photograph of Enola O’Connel wearing coveralls, a cap and welders goggles working atop a gasoline trailer for the U.S. Army Air Corps, 1943. She was the only woman welder in the Heil Company’s plant.]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Black and white portrait of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1992.]

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, bust portrait, facing slightly right

Engraving of First Lady Abigail Adams, after a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart.]

A. Adams / from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.

Black and white image of Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photographer Esther Bubley outside a factory in Bayway, New Jersey, 1943.]

Esther Bubley, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographer, three-quarter length portrait, kneeling with camera, facing right, at Bayway, New Jersey

Photographic portrait of ballet dancer Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre, 1948.]

Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre

Black and white image of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, seated and looking down at a large format camera she is holding.]

Frances Benjamin Johnston, three-quarter length portrait, holding and looking down at camera, facing slightly left (Library of Congress)

Black and white photograph of Ella Fitzgerald performing in a New York City club, wearing a dark dress and small feathered cap. Musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz appear in the background, 1947.]

Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947