Women in World War I: A Photo Gallery

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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

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.

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World War I: Women's Overseas Hospitals

World War I: Women's Overseas Hospitals

The first contingent of the Women's Overseas Hospitals, which sought to aid women...

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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.

Marie Curie driving a mobile radiological unit, 1914

Marie Curie driving a Renault automobile converted into a mobile radiological unit,...

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World War I: women workers

World War I: women workers

Women work at a U.S. airplane factory during World War I. Before the war, very few...

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Stobart, Mabel St. Clair; World War I

Stobart, Mabel St. Clair; World War I

Mabel St. Clair Stobart overcame the resistance of men who claimed that women had...

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World War I

World War I

French women fusing shells at a munitions factory. In Britain, female workers in...

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Two women in military-style uniforms stand at a service window, holding cards as a man inside stamps documents.

World War I

Women street car conductors in Britain. In August 1918 female transit workers in...

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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

Russia's all-female “Battalion of Death” performed well during the June Offensive...

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World War I

World War I

Female streetcar conductor employed by the New York Railways Company. Thousands of...

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World War I

World War I

Street sweeper in Berlin during World War I. Women in Germany entered the workforce...

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World War I

World War I

Armenian girl defending Baku, Azerbaijan, from the Turkish army. After the fall of...

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World War I

World War I

Women working at a General Electric plant in Baltimore, Maryland.

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World War I

World War I

Members of the British Women's Wartime Fire Brigade.

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International Congress of Women

International Congress of Women

Meeting of the International Congress of Women at The Hague, 1915. The congress was...

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World War I

World War I

A 16-year-old girl working on her father's bus route in London. She has trained as...

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World War I

World War I

Female Red Cross volunteers in Berlin assembling parcels containing woolen puttees...

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World War I: women wearing gas masks

World War I: women wearing gas masks

A women's voluntary aid detachment wearing gas masks during a training session in...

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A woman in a long coat stands among snow-covered graves marked with Russian Orthodox crosses in a World War I military cemetery in Suwalki, Poland.

World War I; Eastern Front

Mourner at a Russian military cemetery in Suwałki, Poland.

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