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National League of Women Voters hold up signs reading, 'VOTE', Sept. 17, 1924. Millions of women voted in 1920 and 1924, but in a lower proportion than men.

Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. This was his first version and was likely painted en plein air, when Van Gogh was able to leave the prec

THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by Alexandre Cabanel, 1875, French painting, oil on canvas. This is a copy of Cabanels popular work exhibited in Paris Salon of 1863, which was purchased by Napoleon III for his pe

Water Lilies, by Claude Monet, 1919, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Monet left many of his late works unfinished, but this work was an exception which he signed and sold in 1919

American woman votes, ca. 1920. The 1920 election was the first time all American female citizens over 21 were able to vote for a U.S. President.

THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, by Jacques Louis David, 1787, French Neoclassical painting, oil on canvas. Greek Classical philosopher Socrates about to drink poison hemlock as the price of maintaining his bel

World War 1: Battle of Verdun. French soldiers crawling through their own barbed wire entanglements as they begin an attack on enemy trenches. April-June, 1916.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey, 1923-1938. He was a supporter of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, a victorious General of the defense of Gallipoli in 1915, and led the Turkish National Move

Vetheuil in Summer, by Claude Monet, 1880, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. This painting creates the illusion of flickering reflections of sunlight on the water

Irises, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1890, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. The paintings original pink background has faded because he used impermanent red pigments

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519, Italian painting, oil on canvas. The inscription stating the sitter as Columbus was probably added after the painting was made and identification

African American extended family arriving in Chicago from the rural South, ca. 1920.

VENUS AND CUPID, by Lorenzo Lotto, 1520s, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on canvas. This work was painted to celebrate a wedding, with Venus' features possibly those of the bride. Venus has rose

Rows of bodies at Nazi-German Belsen Concentration Camp on April 15, 1945. They were among thousands of corpses that lay unburied on the camp grounds when the camp was liberated by British Army, World

Monet Family in Their Argenteuil Garden, by Edouard Manet, 1874, French impressionist oil painting. Manet and Renoir were guests of Monet when this work was painted. When not posing, Monet painted Man

Women Suffragettes holding placards with political activist slogans in 1920. Signs read: Know Your Courts-Study Our Politicians; Liberty in Law; Law Makers Must Not Be Law Breakers; Character in Candi

Prohibition agents stand with a still and mason jars used to distill hard liquor in Wash. D.C. area. Nov. 11, 1922

Prohibition agents stand with boxes and bottles of wine and liquor after a raid in Wash. D.C. area. Oct. 14, 1922. Note the camera man in upper left

ST. JUSTINA OF PADUA, by Bartolomeo Montagna, 1490-1524, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on wood. Justina of Padua was baptized by St. Prosdocimus, the first bishop of Padua, and then martyred for h

Sigmund Freud, head and shoulders portrait, 1909. The image is cropped from group photograph taken at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., in Sept. 1909

Workers assembling condensers at the Atwater Kent Factory in North Philadelphia, 1925. The largest manufacturer of radios in the U.S. employed over 12,000 in the 1920s

The German passenger airship Hindenburg seconds after catching fire, May 6, 1937. At 200 feet above the ground, flames erupt on top and in the back of the ship. It descended as it burned, reaching the

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, by Bronzino, 1530s, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on wood. The sitter is thought to be one of Bronzinos literary friends in Florence. There are carved grotesque heads on t

Man watching a high diver prepare to do backward flip off diving board

The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas, 1873, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Over twenty women, ballerinas and their mothers, wait while a dancer executes her examination. Jules Perrot, a famo

STILL LIFE WITH A GUITAR, by Juan Gris, 1913, Spanish Cubist painting, oil on canvas. This work is strongly influenced by the Picasso/Braque second style, Synthetic Cubism as Gris named it. Flat forms

Wife and children of an unemployed African American coal miner in Scott's Run, West Virginia. Photo by Lewis Hine, March 1937.

Attendees give Hitler the Nazi salute during the nation anthem, Oct. 9, 1935. They were meeting at the Kroll Opera in Berlin, to organize the Winter Relief festive to help finance charitable work

New York men in a bread line during the Great Depression, 1935-38. The sign read, 'Paid Up to this Point, Every Dollar pays for 20 More Meals. Men ahead of the sign are assured of a five-cent meal--th

TWO MEN CONTEMPLATING THE MOON, by Caspar David Friedrich, 1825-30, German painting, oil on canvas. Figures are identified as Friedrich, at right, and his friend and disciple August Heinrich. The figu

Study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat, 1884, French Post-Impressionist painting. This oil on canvas work was Seurat's final study for his most famous painting. It measures 28 by31

Oleanders, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. The flowers fill a majolica jug that he used for other still lifes and share the table with Emile Zolas novel, La Joie de

Bouquet of Sunflowers, by Claude Monet, 1881, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Sunflowers in a Japanese vase on a red tablecloth

RECLINING NUDE, by Amedeo Modigliani, 1917, Italian modernist painting, oil on canvas. This is one for several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 on commission from his dealer and fr

George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1803-05, American painting, oil on canvas. In 1796 Washington sat for Stuart who created the famous, but never finished 'Athenaeum' portrait. From that work,

The Card Players, by Paul Cezanne, 1890-92, French Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. This is believed to be the first of five paintings Cezanne made of peasants playing cards

Garden at Sainte-Adresse, by Claude Monet, 1867, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. This was painted as Monet was breaking away from the influence of Manet and developing his dappled paint

$Figures on the Beach, by Auguste Renoir, 1890, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Beach scene painted on the Cote d\x90Azur in southern France$

Two Young Girls at the Piano, by Auguste Renoir, 1892, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. This was painted for the new Musee du Luxembourg, which collected the works of living artists

Irises, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Van Gogh painted this in the garden of the asylum in Saint-Remy, France in May 1889. The cropped composition was l

Royce 'Ross' Youngs played ten seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants. His career ended when he died of Bright's disease at the age of 30 in 1927.

Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, by Claude Monet, 1867, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. It depicts a sailing regatta at Le Havre with figures on the beach. The standing man in a gray suit and

Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, by Claude Monet, 1899, French impressionist oil painting. In the summer of 1899 Monet completed 12 canvases of the wooden footbridge over the lily pond at Giverny

World War 1. American gun crew from the 23rd Infantry, firing a French 37mm cannon in World War I action in Belleau Wood. June 3, 1918

Young girl reading an illustrated book in Pleasant Green School, near Marlinton, West Virginia. The one-room school was one of the best schools for African Americans in Pocahontas County. Oct. 1921. P

$Summer Flowers, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1880, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. The dahlias, phlox, and roses in the bouquet were picked near the artist\x90s country home in Bure, Normandy$

American B-17 flying fortresses bombs Ludwigshafen chemical and synthetic oil works, Germany. World War2, Sept. 29, 1944.

Harry Houdini jumps 30 feet from Harvard Bridge locked up in chains, April 30, 1908. Boston, Massachusetts. His hands were handcuffed and chained to a collar around his neck by a Boston policeman in f

World War 1. British forces in Bapaume, France, site of a battle from August 21 through Sept. 3, 1918. Building on the victory of Battle of Amiens, the Allied counter offensive would drive the Germans

Landscape: The Parc Monceau, by Claude Monet, 1876, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Monet applied the paint in small daubs over the entire canvas, a style that became characteristic of h

Poppy Fields near Argenteuil, by Claude Monet, 1875, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. It depicts the plain of Gennevilliers, southeast of Argenteuil

Nocturnal gathering of robed and hooded Ku Klux Klan men in 1921-1922. Photo by National Photo Company and was likely taken within 100 miles of Washington, D.C.

Andrew Carnegie on return from his annual visit to Europe, NYC, Oct. 17, 1913.

MADONNA AND CHILD SAINTS, by Giovanni Bellini, 1460-1516, Italian Renaissance oil & tempera painting. St. Peter, St. John the Baptist, and two angles flank Mary and Jesus. Bellini painted with luminou

VIEW OF ORNANS, by Gustave Courbet, 1853-57, French painting, oil on canvas. View of the countryside of Courbets native town. The church steeple rises above houses along the banks of the River Loue, t

FLEUR DE LIS, by Robert Reid, c. 1895-1900, American painting, oil on canvas. Reid studied in Paris from 1885-89 before establishing himself as a portraitist in New York City. This lush impressionisti

Man in old fashioned bathing suit diving into pool

Chief Sitting Bull holding peace pipe in 1885 photo. When signing on with BUFFALO BILLS WILD WEST show, Sitting Bull negotiated exclusive rights over the sale of photographs of himself

Marcus Garvey, Jamaican Black Nationalist and Separatist, ca. 1920. In August 1920, his 'Universal Negro Improvement Association,' , claimed 4 million members and 25,000 attended its Madison Square Ga

Roses, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1890, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. The paintings original pink roses has faded because he used impermanent red pigments

Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812, French painting, oil on canvas. The Emperor is portrayed as having worked through the night at his desk, composing the Na

Cypresses, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. Van Gogh described the cypress as the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape. It was shown in the Salon des Independents

AT THE SEASIDE, by William Merritt Chase, 1892, American painting, oil on canvas. Impressionist Long Island, N.Y. beach scene, painted in bright, luminous color with big umbrellas, women, and children

1807, FRIEDLAND, by Ernest Meissonier, 1861-75, French painting, oil on canvas. The Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Friedland on June 14, 1807, is depicted in intricate realist detail in a paintin

The Rehearsal Onstage, by Edgar Degas, 1874, French impressionist drawing, pastel on paper. In a second version of the rehearsal, Degas has eliminated several figures and created a less cluttered pict

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1791, by Benjamin West, by Anglo-American painting, oil on canvas. Archangel Michael expels Adam and Eve, who wear coats of skins' from Eden. The serpent,

VENUS AND THE LUTE PLAYER, by Titian, 1565_70, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on canvas. A nude reclining Venus stops listening to music to be crowned by Cupid. The meaning of this work may relate

THE STORM, by Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1880, French painting, oil on canvas. A young couple in classical costume run for shelter in a rainstorm, using the womans overskirt as a cover. The diaphanous chemis

MOVEMENT OF VAULTED CHAMBERS, by Paul Klee, 1915, Swiss drawing, watercolor on paper. Abstract planes of bright color suggest architecture

MADONNA AND CHILD, by Titian, 1508, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on canvas. The Madonnas natural posture suggests a tender rapport between the mother and child

The Scream, by Edvard Munch, 1895, Norwegian Symbolist/Expressionist print, lithograph. The skull like human head has a single psychological dimension. The precursor of this image was a drawing of a m

Marie-Antoinette, by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun, 1783, French painting, oil on canvas. The tragic guillotined French Queen was played by Norma Shearer in the 1938 film, MARIE ANTOINETTE, and by K

SEPTEMBER MORN, by Paul Chabas, 1912, French realist painting, oil on canvas. When exhibited in the New York in 1913, it was declared immoral by Anthony Comstock, leader of the New York Society for th

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, c. 1920. Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and theorist. He lead the Bolshevik revolution and headed the Russian government from 1918-1924

JEANNE HEBUTERNE, by Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, Italian modernist painting, oil on canvas. Hebuterne, the artists 21 year old mistress, was pregnant with their second child. This portrait is painted wit

CAFE HOUSE, CAIRO, by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1884, French painting, oil on canvas. Bashi-bazouks, mercenary soldiers in the Ottoman army, depicted in a Cairo cafe. On right men and women watch a male dan

$The Repast of the Lion, by Henri Rousseau, 1907, French Primitivism, painting, oil on canvas. The self-taught naive artist based the exotic vegetation on studies that he made in Paris\x90s botanical$

John D. Rockefeller, at the beginning of his 40 year 'retirement' in 1900. Studio portrait by Oscar White

European Allied leaders in Paris Peace Conference, 1919. L-R: French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, a

Left side view of German airship 'Hindenburg' burning, at Lakehurst, N.J., May 6, 1937. Hindenburg used flammable hydrogen for lift, which incinerated the airship in a massive fireball in less than 30

Ile aux Fleurs near Vetheuil, by Claude Monet, 1880, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. The forms and space of the landscape are dematerialized in the lacework of his brushstrokes

Farmers drinking beer during fall harvest in Jackson, Michigan. Fall 1941. In the background is a potentially dangerous harvesting machine, that requires alert workers.

Boulevard Montmartre on Winter Morning, by Camille Pissarro, 1897, French impressionist oil painting. This view of Paris was painted from his rooms at the Grand Hotel de Russie

Thomas Alva Edison in 1922. He remained active until his death in 1929 at age 84

THE ANNUNCIATION, by Botticelli, 1485-92, Italian Renaissance painting, tempera, gold on wood. The Annunciation takes place in classical architecture interior delineated with one-point perspective

Semmes Motor Co. advertising 'Good Used Cars, Price and Terms Right, Buy With Confidence'. In the 1920s the Washington D.C. automotive business was a service station, and offered auto painting and re-

Women sewing American Flags at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, c. 1916-1920

Olive Trees, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. The work was painted directly from nature, but in a highly stylized manner, incorporating pointillist broken color

CHARLES X, by Henry Bone, 1829, British copy of French painting. From original by Francois Gerard. Charles was the younger brother of Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, and ruled for six years, from 182

Kleine Welten I by Vasily Kandinsky, 1922, Russian German Expressionist print. This lithograph was included in the artists 1922 portfolio. Each print presents an autonomous microcosm of self-containe

Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Painted in the last months of his life, Van Gogh's painted with broad calligraphic strokes. Th

The Siesta, by Paul Gauguin, 1892-94, French Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Tahitian women gathered in an open-sided shelter with wood plank floor

$COSINO I DE\x90 MEDICI, by Workshop of Bronzino, 1550_74, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on wood. Cosimo ascended to power when, the Duke of Florence, Alessandro de Medici, was assassinated in 1537$

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