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These wartime experiences helped spur gender equality movements, including the battle for women’s suffrage. During the war women won the right to vote in a number of countries, including Canada, Germany, and Russia, while women in the United States gained the privilege shortly after WWI ended.
Mar 22, 2016 · The role of women in World War II has been immortalized through iconic images like Rosie the Riveter proclaiming “Yes We Can!” and WASPs earning their wings. Stories of women flooding the workforce in the absence of men dominate history books and films.
Sometimes these colors derive from a colorized restoration; at other times, we discover a world of color in the bowels of an old camera, locked in the emulsion of slide film in a machine...
May 25, 2016 · The photographs were taken by a French couple, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier, during the First World War and are a fantastic and very natural collection of portraits of Allied soldiers who...
May 27, 2024 · Thanks to the then-recently invented autochrome, the photographs taken by Kahn’s team of photographers during the conflict are in color. They capture the blue of French uniforms, the crumbling gray ruins of cities like Reims, and the dark, mousy brown of trenches on the frontline.
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Jul 1, 2014 · Female army recruits from the United Kingdom are seen during drills in May 1917. World War I broke down barriers between military and civilian life. With the men away in battle, women...
Apr 27, 2014 · On this 100-year anniversary, I've gathered photographs of the Great War from dozens of collections, some digitized for the first time, to try to tell the story of the conflict, those caught up...
