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	Page: Cover Photographer: unknown Title: Violet Lynch Date: unknown Location: Miami Beach, Florida Collection: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Description: “With a screech and a splash, Violet Lynch is shown running into the surf at Miami clad in the latest of bathing suits designed by Ethel Traphagen of New York. Made of korosealed marquisette, the design captured the style from the return of corsets in women’s apparel.
	Page: 1 Photographer: unknown Title: Coeds with Hoes Date: 1944 Location: Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Collection: Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives, # HC972 Description: “The county experimental hop yard recruited Oregon State College Coeds for a quick job of hoeing.”
	Page: 2 Photographer: unknown Title: Group of Bathers Date:1921 Location: England Collection: Isobel Dawson photo collection Description: Co-author Barb Mayer’s maternal grandmother is standing third from the right.
	Page: 3 Photographer: Het Leven magazine Title: Dancing on the Beach Date: 1927 Location: Bournemouth, England Collection: Dutch National Archives, Spaarnestad Collection, # SFA002009694 Description: Dancers standing in a row at the water’s edge on the beach at Bournemouth, England
	Page: 4 Photographer: unknown Title: Buxom Woman Date: unknown Location: unknown Collection: Barb Mayer photo collection Description: Found in thrift shop, Renton, Washington
	Page: 5 Photographer: unknown Title: Alice White Date: 1920s Location: unknown Collection: unknown – found on Flickr Description: American screen actress Alice White (1904-1983) posing for a publicity shot.
	Page: 6 Photographer: A.H. Poole Studio Title: Becoming a Woman Date: 1919 Location: Ireland Collection: National Library of Ireland * Description: Studio portrait, possibly of Bridget Dillon (Kilcash, Ballypatrick, Clonmel.) Commissioned by Miss Dillon.
	Page: 7 Photographer: Fox Photos Title: Beach Exercise Date: 1935 Location: Worthing, England Collection: Getty Images Prestige, HB 5492-001 Description: “A group of women exercising on the beach at Worthing (England) using new inflated swim bars.”
	Page: 8 Photographer: unknown Title: Dot Smith on Motorcycle Date: 1939 Location: unknown Collection: unknown – found on Huffington Post website Description: According to Cristine Sommer Simmons (author of The American Motorcycle Girls) Dot Smith was a member of the Motor Maids, an organization for female bikers. She also rode with the San Francisco Motorcycle Club.
	Page: 9 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Miss Alice Reighly Date:1923 Location: Washington,D.C. Collection: Library of Congress Description: “Miss Alice Reighly was President of the Anti-Flirt Club which had just been organized in Washington, D.C. The club was composed of young women and girls who had been embarrassed by men in automobiles and on street corners.”
	Page: 10 Photographer: John P. Troy Title: Student Reading to Two Little Girls Date:1920 Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Collection: Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collection * # 23-2-749, RT-S-16 Description: Photographed for the 1920 Cornell University home economics catalog.
	Page: 11 Photographer: Henry Essenhigh Corke (1883-1919) Title: Mother and Child Date: c1910 Location: unknown Collection: © Royal Photographic Society, National Media Museum, Science and Society Picture Library* Description: Mother and baby, originally processed using autochrome — an early color process which used a glass plate covered in microscopic red, green and blue grains of potato starch. For more details, click here.
	Page: 12 Photographer: Ralph Walker Title: Water Skiers Date: c1960 Location: Missouri Collection: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives*, Image #CID_057-003 Description: Four women hold a formation on water skis during a pageant.
	Page: 13 Photographer: unknown Title: Raquel Torres Date: 1929 Location: unknown Collection: unknown Description: Hollywood MGM starlet Raquel Torres (right) in a mountain-staged publicity shot. Raquel Torres (1908-1987) was a Mexican-American film actress whose films include Duck Soup (1933) and Go West, Young Man (1936.) For more information on Raquel Torres, click here.
	Page: 14 Photographer: unknown Title: Unruly Children Date: unknown Location: unknown Collection: Flickr Vintage Postcard Images Description: Vintage postcard (staged image) showing a woman with her three unruly children. Vintage postcards became popular at the turn of the 20th Century, especially for sending short messages to friends and relatives.
	Page: 15 Photographer: unknown Title: Family Gathering Date: 1922 Location: London, England Collection: Isobel Dawson photo collection Description: A family gathering in London, England, including the sisters of coauthor Barb Mayer”s paternal grandfather.
	Page: 16 Photographer: unknown Title: Blizzard Date: Jan. 28, 1922 Location: Washington, D.C. Collection: Library of Congress Description: The blizzard of 1922, also known as the Knickerbocker Snowstorm, was Washington’s largest snowstorm on record with a depth of 28 inches. For more details click here.
	Page: 17 Photographer: unknown Title: Pinup girls at Naval Air Station, Seattle Date: 1944 Location: Seattle, WA Collection: National Archives and Records Administration Description: Pin-up girls at the Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA Spring Formal Dance.
	Page: 18 Photographer: unknown Title: Mary Blade, Standing at Blackboard Date: Oct., 1946 Location: New York, N.Y. Collection: Smithsonian Institution Archives*, Image # 90-105 Description: “In 1946, when this photograph was taken, Mary Blade was the only woman on the Cooper Union engineering faculty in New York City (where she initially taught drawing, mathematics, and design) and one of few women on any engineering faculty in the United States. Blade was an avid and accomplished mountain climber.”.
	Page: 19 Photographer: unknown Title: Irish Boxing Champion Elsie Connor Date: Aug. 5, 1931 Location: New York, N.Y. Collection:Getty Images, Gamma-Keystone Collection, # 466703383 Description: Irish boxing champion Elsie Connor in New York City.
	Page: 20 Photographer: unknown Title: Portrait of Two Young Women Skating Date: 1940s Location: unknown Collection: Shutterstock, Everett Collection, # 92590018 Description: Two young women with roller skates posing for a photo on the road.
	Page: 21 Photographer: Ted Hood Title: Children in Sydney Slums Date: 1949 Location: Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Collection: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, # PXA 584 Description: Children in Sydney slums, mainly Surry Hills. The photographer, Ted Hood, was the son of well-known Australian photographer Sam Hood.
	Page: 22 Photographer: Sven Türck Title: Young couple at Hampen Lake, Central Jutland Date: unknown Location: Central Jutland, Denmark Collection: The Royal Library, Denmark*, # turck_22013 Description: Young couple at Hampen Lake, Central Jutland.
	Page: 23 Photographer: Einar Erici (1885-1965) Title: Mr. and Mrs. Nilsson, Kulladal, Skåne, Sweden Date: 1935 Location: Kulladal, Skåne, Sweden Collection: Swedish National Heritage Board*, # EE0045 Description: The master painter Olof Nilsson, born in 1865, and his wife in a garden, probably by their house at 5, Ludvigsgatan Street in the Kulladal area of Malmö, Sweden.
	Page: 24 Photographer: Bain News Service Title: Dolores Del Rio Date: unknown Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress Description: Dolores del Rio (1905-1983) was a Mexican film, television and stage actress who was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s. Her films include What Price Glory? (1926), Flying Down to Rio (1933), and Journey Into Fear (1943.) For more information on Dolores del Rio,click here.
	Page: 25 Photographer: Jim Fitzpatrick Title: Wes Colquhoun and Fred Phair talking to the girls at the ball in the Soldier’s Memorial Hall, Drouin, Victoria Date: 1944 Location: Drouin, Victoria, Australia Collection: National Library of Australia*, # 669443, Drouin town and rural life during World War II. Description: ” Pride of the stag line at Drouin’s weekly dance were bachelors — Warrant Officer Wes Colquhoun (23), R.A.A.F. and Corporal Fred Phair (25), A.I.F. Wes, son of Drouin’s butcher, was sole surviving member of a Lancaster Crew… Fred, son of Drouin’s fruiterer, served in New Guinea… (printed on label.)”
	Page: 26 Photographer: unknown Title: Girl with Ribbons Date: 1929 Location: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada Collection: Isobel Dawson photo collection Description: Barb Mayer’s mother, Helen “June” Mayer was raised in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. She is pictured here at the age of 17 months standing on the doorstep of her family’s prairie home.
	Page: 27 Photographer: Miles Brothers Title: Eating Blueberries Date: c1903 Location: Valdez, Alaska Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: “The picnic girl out for a day in the woods near Valdez, Alaska, enjoying a feast of blueberries.”
	Page: 28 Photographer: Harris and Ewing Title: Safety First Date: 1936 Location: Washington, D.C. Collection: Library of Congress Description: “Safety first for this Miss, Washington, D.C. August 8. Equipped with bumpers fore and aft, 4-year-old Betty Buck is taking no unnecessary chances as she tries her first pair of roller skates.”
	Page: 29 Photographer: Joseph Steinmetz (1905-1985) Title: Ringling Circus and trapeze artist Elly Ardelty in Sarasota, Florida. Date: 1948 Location: Sarasota, Florida Collection: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Description: Elly Ardelty was born in Leningrad, Russia. She learned the art of trapeze performing from the famous trapeze artist Arthur Ardelty, and later became his wife. In 1940 she was offered a job performing with Ringing Brothers Circus. For more information on Elly Ardelty, click here.
	Page: 30 Photographer: unknown Title: World War II WASPS Date: 1943 Location: Lockbourne Army Air Force Base, Ohio Collection: U.S. National Archives Description: Four WASPS (Women Airforce Service Pilots) leave their B-17, called Pistol Packin’ Mama, during training at Lockbourne Army Air Force Base in Ohio. They’re carrying their parachutes.
	Page: 31 Photographer: unknown Title: Woman in cockpit of University School of Aeronautics, Austin, Texas plane Date: 1928 Location: Austin, Texas Collection: Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer LIbrary*, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection Description: Unknown woman in cockpit of plane — University School of Aeronautics, Austin, Texas.
	Page: 32 Photographer: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) Title: Migrant potato pickers, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California Date: 1939 Location: Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California Collection: Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Description: This photo of a young mother with her daughter was taken during the Depression. During this time period, Dorothea Lange worked taking photos for the Farm Security Administration.
	Page: 33 Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) Title: Mother Grooming her Daughter Date: 1941 Location: Memphis,Tennessee Collection: Getty Images, LIFE Picture Collection, # 53378644 Description: Mother grooming her daughter for the healthiest baby contest held at an African American Fair, Memphis, Tennessee.
	Page: 34 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Viola LaLonde and Eliz. Van Tuyl Date: June 13, 1922 Location: unknown (probably Washington,D.C.) Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: Two women, Viola LaLonde and Elizabeth Van Tuyl, perched on the bumpers of a vintage automobile.
	Page: 35 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Icing off at the tee Date: c1920 Location: Washington, D.C. Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: ” Miss Dorothy Kelly teeing off on a cake of ice. The others in the group are Misses Virginia Hunter, Elaine Griggs, Hazel Brown, and Mary Kaminsky.”
	Page: 36 Photographer: unknown Title: Skate to Work, Save Gas Date: 1940s Location: New York, N.Y. Collection: unknown Description: Women on roller skates. Details of photo unknown.
	Page: 37 Photographer: Bain News Service Title: Mrs. Van Winkle and Suffrage Torch Date: c1915 Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress Description: Mrs. Van Winkle holds the suffrage torch. Mina Van Winkle (1875-1932) worked as a social worker, suffragist, and police lieutenant. For more details, click here.
	Page: 38 Photographer: Russell Lee (1903-1986) Title: Sharecropper woman worker, Southeast Missouri Farms Date: May, 1938 Location: New Madrid County, Missouri (Southeast Missouri Farms) Collection: Library of Congress, U.S. Farm Security Administration Description: Woman sharecropper working the fields in Southeast Missouri.
	Page: 39 Photographer: unknown Title: Helen Keller, three-quarter length, seated, facing right, holding hand of her teacher, Mrs. John A. Macy (Anne Mansfield Sullivan) Date: 1909 Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress Description: Helen Keller holds the hand of her teacher. Ms. Keller was a suffragist, a pacifist, and an advocate for people with disabilities. For more about Helen Keller, click here. Helen’s teacher and longtime companion was Mrs. John A. Macy (more commonly known as Annie Sullivan.) For more about Annie Sullivan, click here.
	Page: 40 Photographer: Gerald R. Massie (1911-1989) Title: Successful Fishing Trip Date: c1955 Location: Missouri Collection: Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives*, # CID_019_111 Description: Three women sit on a fence holding their catch from a recent fishing trip.
	Page: 41 Photographer: Harris and Ewing Title: Twins Become Mothers Date: April 7, 1939 Location: Washington, D.C. Collection: Library of Congress, Harris and Ewing Collection Description: ” Twins become mothers together for the second time in less than two years. Accustomed to doing practically the same things all their lives, these Washington twins, new mothers, have apparently decided that having their children together would certainly be in order. The mothers Mrs. Eileen Moon, left, and Mrs. Kathleen Robie, last week gave birth to daughters to set a new record at Columbia Maternity Hospital. Mrs. Moon’s youngster, whom she named Carol,was born on March 29, while Mrs. Robie’s new daughter Nancy Lee first saw the light of day on April 1. This same thing happened in July 1937 when Mrs. Robie gave birth to a girl and a few hours later Mrs. Moon’s baby, a boy, arrived.”
	Page: 42 Photographer: A.H. Poole Title: Convent, group of eight of the girls Date: 1930 Location: Wexford, Ireland Collection: National Library of Ireland*, Poole Photographic Collection, NLI Ref P_WP_3785 Description: “Pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Faith School at Rosbercon, New Ross, Co. Wexford dressed up, perhaps for a Nativity Play.”
	Page: 43 Photographer: Herald Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia Title: A Papier-Mache Cow on Mrs. Mellor’s Car Date: Feb 29, 1944 Location: Melbourne, Australia Collection: Australian War Memorial Collection (found through Wikimedia Commons) Description: “A papier-mache cow, used for milking demonstrations at the Werribee experimental farm, being tied on to the luggage carrier of Mrs. Mellor’s car for transport to the farm. Mrs. Mellor is Field Officer in Charge of the Women’s Land Army Mont Park training depot.”
	Page: 44 Photographer: unknown Title: Young Girl Posed for British Postcard Date: 1920s Location: England Collection: unknown Description: Young girl posed for a British postcard.
	Page: 45 Photographer: unknown Title: Two Norwegian Women Riding a Vintage Harley Davidson Date: c1925 Location: Myklebysetra, Norway Collection: Ingmar Eng photo collection via Harald Østmoe Description: In the words of Harald Østmoe: “The two on the bike are sisters. Sigrid Grinaker Skramstad (1892-1984) is driving. She was a farmer. My grandmother, Odny Grinaker-Østmoe (1896-1978) is the passenger. She was a dentist. The photo was taken ca 1925 in the mountains where they kept their cattle in the summer. It was the midst of summer as I can tell from the vegetation and the cow dung on the road. This was a very happy and joyful time of the year. They could escape the hard work down in the valley, to do hard work in the mountains, but with a lot more freedom. We still have the old farmhouse up there, but now it’s only used for vacations.”
	Page: 46 Photographer: unknown Title: Springfield Cowgirls Date: c1930 Location: Springfield, Illinois Collection: Wikimedia Commons Description: Cowgirls at the Springfield Exposition, Springfield, Illinois.
	Page: 47 Photographer: Charles Elliott Gill (1869-1962) Title: Women on Horseback Date: c1910 Location: Dent County, Missouri Collection: Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives,* Image # MS330_619 Description: Women in long coats and scarves pose mounted on horses standing in a row across a clearing with snow on the wooded hillside behind them. The women sit side saddle on the horses, but on regular saddles. Note: Image has been cropped
	Page: 48 Photographer: Harris and Ewing Title: Women With Tuba Date: 1928 Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress, Harris and Ewing Collection Description: Two women, identity unknown, one playing tuba. Note: Image has been cropped
	Page: 49 Photographer: unknown Title: Chinese Bather Date: c1920 Location: unknown Collection: unknown Description: Woman strolling on the beach with parasol and magazine.
	Page: 50 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Miss Mary Bay Date: Jan 29, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: Entertainer Mary Bay drives a miniature car, possibly related to Gus Edwards and his girl revue Toppers at B.F. Keith’s Theater, Washington, D.C.
	Page: 51 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Mildred Billert and Hazel Bowman of Ned Weyburn’s Review Date: Feb. 7, 1925 Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: Mildred Billett and Hazel Bowman of Ned Weyburn’s Review.
	Page: 52 Photographer: unknown Title: On the Beach Date: c1935 Location: Queensland, Australia Collection: State Library of Queensland,* Record #80651 Description: Young women running over a sand dune on an unidentified beach in Queensland, Australia.
	Page: 53 Photographer: Het Leven magazine Title: Women Having Fun in the Sea Date: unknown Location: Netherlands Collection: Dutch National Archives,* Spaarnestad Collection, #SFA001008525 Description: Unidentified women splashing in the sea.
	Page: 54 Photographer: unknown Title: Sushila Rao Date: 1940s Location: India Collection: unknown Description: Caption from The Sartorialist. “This is a photo of my very elegant grandmother, Sushila Rao, posing with her new camera in India, where she was born and raised. It was probably taken sometime in the1940s. She’s wearing a tailored, white linen suit and flat, brown leather sandals, which make her look strong despite the fact that she’s very petite. It was very daring of her to be out and about in menswear back then, rather than a traditional sari.”
	Page: 55 Photographer: J.L. Blessing Title: Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower) Date: 1908 Location: New York Collection: Wikimedia Commons Description: Portrait of Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower) of the Seneca tribe, published by the Blessing Studio, Salamanca, New York.
	Page: 56 Photographer: Willem Van de Poll (1895-1970) Title: Model Eva Waldschmidt with her Dog Date: unknown Location: Netherlands Collection: Dutch National Archives,* Van de Poll Collection, Image #189-0240 Description: Model Eva Waldschmidt holding a puppy.
	Page: 57 Photographer: White Studio Title: Pearl White, no. 2 Date: c1916 Location: New York Collection: Library of Congress Description: Silent film actress Pearl White (1889-1938) poses for a publicity shot, holding a pig while seated on the hood of a Stutz automobile with New York license plates.
	Page: 58 Photographer: unknown Title: Girls Deliver Ice Date: 1918 Location: unknown Collection: U.S. National Archives, # 533758. Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917-1918. Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860-1952. Description: “Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the patriotic ambition to help.”
	Page: 59 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: High School girls learn the art of automobile mechanics Date: c1927 Location: Central High, Washington, D.C. Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: “High school girls learn the art of automobile mechanics. Left to right: Grace Hurd, Evelyn Harrison, and Corinna DiJiulian, with Grace Wagner under car.”
	Page: 60 Photographer: unknown Title: Sex Education Date: 1929 Location: unknown Collection: unknown Description: Students attending a sex education class.
	Page: 61 Photographer: unknown Title: The Entertainer Date: Dec. 14, 1921 Location: Seattle, WA Collection: Library of Congress Description: Postcard showing full-length portrait of a woman, standing, facing front,wearing hat and short skirt. Caption reads “Butler Café Revue, Seattle, WA.”
	Page: 62 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Miss Mae Esterley with Sgt. Jiggs Date: Apr. 14, 1925 Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: Marine Corps mascot, Sergeant Major Jiggs with Miss Mae Esterley.
	Page: 63 Photographer: Willem Van de Poll (1895-1970) Title: Milking a Cow Date: 1933 Location: Broek in Waterland, North Holland Collection: Dutch National Archives,* # 190-1013 Description: Model Eva Waldschmidt milking a cow.
	Page: 64 Photographer: Fitz W. Guerin (1846-1903) Title: Young Woman Modeling Date: 1902 Location: unknown Collection: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographic Division Description: Model reclilning on a chair.
	Page: 65 Photographer: National Photo Company Title: Sewing Stars on Suffrage Flag Date: 1920 Location: Washington,D.C. Collection: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection Description: Suffragettes sew stars on suffrage flag.
	Page: 66 Photographer: unknown Title: Swimsuit Women Date: 1950s Location: unknown Collection: unknown Description: Four African-American women posing on the beach.
	Page: 67 Photographer: unknown Title: Violet Lynch running into the surf – Miami Beach, Florida Date: unknown Location: Miami Beach, Florida Collection: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Description: “With a screech and a splash, Violet Lynch is shown running into the surf at Miami clad in the latest in bathing suits designed by Ethel Traphagen of New York. Made of korosealed marquisette, the design captured the style from the return of corsets in women’s apparel.”
	Page: 68 Photographer: unknown Title: WAC Members Date: 1940s Location: unknown Collection: unknown Description: Two members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) posing.
	Page: 69 Photographer: unknown Title: Women’s Olympic Ski Team Date: 1948 Location: unknown Collection: unknown Description: Members of the 1948 Women’s Olympic Ski Team pose atop a mountain. Left to right: Gretchen Fraser, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Paula Kahn and Brynhild Grusmoen.
	Page:70 Photographer: unknown Title: Woman and Mom Date: unknown Location: unknown Collection: Barb Mayer photo collection Description: A young woman poses with her mother on the running board of a vintage car. This photo was discovered in a Renton WA antique shop.