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Women in World War I: A Photo Gallery
  • Introduction
  • Marie Curie and the petites Curies
  • Advancement in aviation
  • Mabel St. Clair Stobart
  • “Canary girls”
  • A strike against inequality
  • The “Battalion of Death”
  • The end of the road
  • Women in Germany
  • Defending Baku
  • Women at work
  • Putting out fires
  • The battle for suffrage and peace
  • All in the family
  • Red Cross volunteers
  • Training with gas masks
  • Mourning the dead
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World War I: Women's Overseas Hospitals Marie Curie sits at the wheel of a Renault car converted into a mobile radiological unit, wearing a dark coat, with the vehicle parked beside a brick wall, circa 1914. World War I: women workers Stobart, Mabel St. Clair; World War I World War I Two women in military-style uniforms stand at a service window, holding cards as a man inside stamps documents. Large group of young women soldiers from the Russian Battalion of Death stand in uniformed formation in an open field, with tents and smoke visible in the background. World War I World War I World War I

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