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Sara Forbes Bonetta, ward and goddaughter of Queen Victoria, 1862, by Camille Silvy
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Day dress with cape of woollen jersey and two felt, chrome and leather belts, designed by Madeleine Vionnet, Paris, 1933
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Stomacher of metal, silk, and flax, British, ca. 1720
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Emilie Louise Flöge, an Austrian fashion designer and businesswoman, 1906, by her lover Gustav Klimt
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Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, one of the chief ladies-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England in the later years of her reign, 1600, by an unknown artist.
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Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III, 1936, by Jos Damien
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Evening dress (c.1810, V&A Museum) and still from Emma (2020)
The costumes, designed by Alexandra Byrne, showcase several replicas of extant garments
✨A Thread✨
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Dress sewn by Rosa Parks, between 1955 and 1956
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A female undertaker during World War One, standing beside her horse-drawn glass-sided hearse, by Nicholls Horace. She is wearing a top hat, dark frock coat and boots and has her hair in a long plait. She is described in the original caption as "The Funeral Lady".
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British noblewoman, socialite and diarist Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon, 1899, by Alice Hughes
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Wedding dress, made with muslin, trimmed with satin with the hem embroidered in a floral pattern with coloured woollen threads, English, c.1830
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A Young Breton Girl Knitting by a Window, by Marie Lucas-Robiquet, a French Orientalist artist who worked within the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.
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Wedding dress of multicolored embroidered silk with flowers and leaves, consisting of an overgown and a skirt, 1760, housed at the Rijksmuseum
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Female worker from the Tredegar ironworks, Wales, 1860s
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World of dreams, 1876, by Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Lady Alma-Tadema, an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children. Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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Queen Victoria's sketches of Anne Boleyn after seeing Giulia Grisi in Donizetti's Anna Bolena, 1830s.
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Portrait of Caubvick, an Inuk woman from Labrador in Canada. Painted 1772 by unknown artist.
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Charles Perugini's portrait of his wife Kate Dickens, an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens.
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Kathleen Clarke, a founder member of Cumann na mBan, a women's paramilitary organisation formed in Ireland in 1914, and one of very few privy to the plans of the Easter Rising in 1916, 1900. She was the first female Lord Mayor of Dublin
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Tiara of the duchess of Angoulême (1820). The tiara was made for the French princess Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
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Cotton and muslin nightdress with embroidered insertions of bobbin lace, embroidered by Lilian Ethel Rowarth as her examination piece for the Royal School of Needlework, England, 1905
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Chiricahua Apache Prisoners, 1886. Lozen, a warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache, is the third person from the right in the top row. Lozen was, according to legends, able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy.
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English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler, 1851, by George Richmond. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, and the abolition of child prostitution.
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Portrait of Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, Baroness Decies, an American author and Manhattan socialite by Giovanni Boldini, 1905
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A portrait of a young girl and her dog, 1877, by Adèle Kindt, a Belgian painter; known primarily for portraits and genre scenes.
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A Helensburgh Breakfast, by Annie Rose Laing, a Scottish artist, known for her paintings of landscapes, children and interiors.
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The "Darnley Portrait" of Elizabeth I of England, 1575, was said to such a good likeness to her it was like "being in the room with her" to an almost unsettling degree.
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Group of mainly female shirtwaist workers on strike, in a room, New York, USA, 1910
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Battledore and Shuttlecock, by Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Lady Alma-Tadema, an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children. Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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This is the first page of Grand duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna description of her sister's, Alexandra Feodorovna’s, wedding dress to their grandmother Queen Victoria.
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An Irish woman dressed as the Queen of Spades, 1905
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Illustrator and author Tasha Tudor loved the old ways of country living. She dressed in clothes styled for the 19th century and carried a handmade willow basket to do her grocery shopping. She was often photographed, and her art continues to grace museums and cards, among others.
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Petticoat, 1700-1749, English, embroidered in coloured silk yarn on black silk
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Portrait of Mary Jane Clarke, a British suffragette who died after being force fed whilst in prison on Christmas Day 1910 - the suffragette's "first woman martyr". She was the younger sister of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Women strike pickets from Ladies Tailors, New York, USA, 1910
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Judith (c.1620-1625) by Italian painter Virginia Vezzi or her husband Simon Vouet
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Rosanna Forster carrying on her husband's business as a chimney sweep while he served aboard in the army, Kent, 1918, by Horace Nicholls
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Ruby Dee, an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist, by Carl Van Vechten, September 25, 1962
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Lavinia Veiongo, first wife of George Tupou II, King of Tonga, on her wedding day. She was the mother of his successor, Sālote Tupou III.
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A Quiet Moment, by Annie Rose Laing, a Scottish artist, known for her paintings of landscapes, children and interiors.
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Woman operating a tram in a city in Lorraine, France, 1917, by Harriet Chalmers Adams, an American explorer, writer and photographer.
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Allied women in Paris to plead for international suffrage, 27 Feb 1919. They also called upon the President during his stay in Paris, and asked to be given a place at the Peace Conference, to inquire into and report upon the conditions concerning women and children.
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Norwegian novelist and playwright Nini Roll Anker, by Christian Meyer Ross. Her books often concerned the lives of women within different social classes as well as the women's rights movement and the rights of the working class.
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Young Ireland: Grace Gifford, an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising, by William Orpen, c. 1907
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Female munitions workers at the National Shell Factory in Dublin take a break outdoors, 1914
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French women employed at a British Army laundry, Frevent, 15 February 1918, by David McLellan
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Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Princess Henry of Battenberg, 1928, by Arthur Stockdale Cope
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Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror, and regent of Normandy during his absences from the duchy, working at the Telle du Conquest, 1848, by Alfred Guillard
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Maybelline was founded in Chicago by Thomas Lyle Williams in 1915. He noticed his sister Maybel applying a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes. He adapted it with a chemistry set and produced a product sold locally, that he later renamed Maybelline in her honor.
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Women crocheting, knitting, and reading, 1887, Finnmark, Norway
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14-year-old Johanna Kokkonen photographed by Eero Järnefelt in Väisälänmäki, Lapinlahti, Grand Duchy of Finland in summer 1893. Järnefelt depicted Kokkonen in his painting Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood).
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The Lady "Station Master" and "Signalman", Emily Merwood, at Whippingham Station on the Isle of Wight Railway. From The Sketch 9 December 1903.
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Lady Charlotte Finch, the royal governess to the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte for over thirty years, holding the position from 1762 to 1793, (right) and her sister Sophia Countess Granville, c. 1741, by Enoch Seeman
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Alice Paul, an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote, sewing a suffrage flag, between 1912 and 1920
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Portrait Of A Girl With Red Hair, by Mary McEvoy, a British artist known for her paintings of portraits, interiors and flowers.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine’s grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine, gave her this rock crystal vase, that she gave to Louis VIII as a wedding gift, which he donated to the Abbey of Saint-Denis. This is the only surviving artifact known to have belonged to her.
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Women of the Land Army are pictured packing potatoes at Bacheiddon Farm, near Machynlleth, Wales, by Geoff Charles, 25 July 1942
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French haute couture fashion designer, Jeanne Lanvin, 1925, by Clementine-Hélène Dufau, a French painter decorative artist, poster designer and illustrator.
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A satirical photo from 1901, with the caption "New Woman—Wash Day". A woman wearing knickerbockers and knee socks, and smoking a cigarette, is supervising a man (who seams to be wearing a dress and an apron) who is doing the laundry with a tub and washboard.
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Madeleine of France, briefly Queen of Scotland as the first wife of King James V, and 3rd Daughter of François I, and Claude of France, misidentified in a later inscription as her sister Charlotte of France, by Jean Clouet
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Karin Bergöö Larsson, a Swedish artist and designer who collaborated with her husband, Carl Larsson, as well as being often depicted in his paintings, at her loom, 1930
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn, an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement, in 1920. Alongside Margaret Sanger, she co-founded the organization that would become Planned Parenthood. She was the mother and namesake of actress Katharine Hepburn.
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An emaciated internee, Miss Wendy Rossini, at Stanley Civil Internment Camp in Hong Kong, photographed after liberation in 1945 and showing the small quantity of rice and stew which served as rations for five people.
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Members of the British Women's Land Army harvesting beetroot (circa 1942/43).
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A portrait of a munitions girl as she works an automatic cartridge machine for weighing, length gauging and body gauging at the Inspection Buildings, Park Royal, First World War, by Horace Nicholls
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Girl with Cigarette, 1925, by Agnes Goodsir, an Australian portrait painter who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Portrait of a young Portuguese woman, ca 1880, by Carlos Relvas
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Catherine Dolgorukova, Princess Yurievskaya, a long-time mistress of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and later, his morganatic wife, 1880, by Konstantin Makovsky
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Italian young woman at work in an ice cream parlor in Milan, 14 October 1950
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When Amalia of Oldenburg arrived in Greece as queen she realized that her attire ought to emulate that of her new people, and so she created a romantic folksy court dress, which became a national Greek costume still known as the Amalía dress.
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Evening Dress, 1902-1903, State Hermitage Museum
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Samoan woman wearing beads, between circa 1890 and circa 1910, by Thomas Andrew
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Isabella Beeton, an English journalist, editor and writer, in about 1854. Her name has become associated with knowledge and authority on Victorian cooking and home management, and by 1891 the term Mrs Beeton had become used as a generic name for a domestic authority.
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Portrait of Kalmyk girl Annushka, by Russian painter Ivan Argunov, 1767
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Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, together with their children Alice (future Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark), Louise (future Queen of Sweden) and George (future Marquess of Milford Haven), by Richard Ellis, Malta, March 1895.
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Late night library sessions, Bryn Mawr College, 1959.
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Dress (ca. 1935)
Worn by Dina Merrill when her mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post, married her third husband, Joseph E. Davis
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Letter and drawing from Mary Anning announcing the discovery of a fossil animal now known as Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, 26 December 1823
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American actress and model Ruth Ford, having a dress adjusted on her by Pierre Balmain, 1947, by Carl Van Vechten
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Oil sketch of English maid, model, dancer and actress Emma, Lady Hamilton, as Miranda from the Tempest, by George Romney, between circa 1785 and circa 1786
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Zinaida Yusupova, an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her time, wearing the La Pelegrina pearl, one of the most famous pearls in the world, 1894, by François Flameng
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Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine, and her son Frederick Henry, with leading strings, 1615, by Nicholas Hilliard
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Self-Portrait, 1895, by Ellen Thesleff, an expressionist Finnish painter, regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters.
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Fruit and flower sellers in front of the main post office, at Nelson's Pillar, Dublin, Ireland, c. 1946
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Stomacher and robing for a woman's gown, 1720-1740, French, ivory silk taffeta embroidered with coloured silks and silver threads, lace trim
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The future Joseph II, at the bedside of his wife Isabella of Parma, following the birth of their daughter Maria Theresa, 1762, by Maria Christina, future Duchess of Teschen
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Constance, Duchess of Westminster, 1906, by Frank Dicksee
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French pioneer filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1896. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world.
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Class of 1921 Smith College graduates greets 1971 graduates
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Self-portrait of sisters Héloïse Colin, a painter and fashion illustrator, and Adele-Anaïs Toudouze, a fashion plate illustrator, 1836. Each of the sisters painted the portrait of the other
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Princess Margaret and her iconic 21st birthday gown by Christian Dior (ca. 1951)
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Women of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) growing vegetables in their camp garden, Rouen 10th September 1918, by David McLellan
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Handcraft exposition show in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1911
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color sketch of three London gentlewomen and a countrywoman come to market, from the manuscript Corte Beschryuinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland, c.1574, by Lucas de Heere
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Karin Bergöö Larsson, a Swedish artist and designer, her daughter Suzanne in Grez-sur-Loing, 1885, by her husband Carl Larsson
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Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, standing on a carpet at the entrance to a yurt, dressed in traditional clothing and jewelry, c. 1905-1915, by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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