Everyone’s favorite flapper.

Original caption: “Calm about it. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage.”

circa 1917

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

An auto repair class at Central High School in Washington DC. 1927.

Margaret Bourke-White was a famous American photographer. In 1929, she was the first photographer for Fortune Magazine. In 1930, she was the first Western photographer allowed to take pictures of Soviet industry. In 1935, she was the first female photojournalist for Life magazine. And to top it all off, she was the first female war correspondent during World War II and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones. She traveled through Germany with Patton and was one of the first to photograph the horrors of the concentration camps.

Margaret Bourke-White working atop the Chrysler Building, New York, NY; photographed by her assistant, Oscar Graubner, 1934

Suffragettes posting bills, circa 1910

Library of Congress

historiful:

A young woman giggling, date unknown. 

Howard University students watching the game.

Image from the 1920’s.