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Chapter 7: Image Credits
The women of the 71st Congress (1929–1931) pose on the Capitol steps. From left to right they are: (front row) Pearl Oldfield of Arkansas, Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, and Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois; (back row) Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, Mary Norton of New Jersey, and Florence Kahn of California. 1929
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Three unidentified young women work in a Washington, D.C., office, ca. 1922
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Photographers greet Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois (center), as she shakes hands with the wife of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (second from right), upon her arrival in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 1930. Representative Florence Prag Kahn of California stands on the far right. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida stands to McCormick’s right.
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Five sisters who are employed as secretaries to five different congressmen: Goldie, Jeane, Marge, Belle, and Verna Dunn, 8 April 1924
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Three women at work at the headquarters of the National Woman’s Party in Washington, D.C., ca. 1920
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Florence Kahn attending the Congressional Baseball Game, May 1926
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Representatives Florence Kahn and Edith Nourse Rodgers of Massachusetts with a Page in the newly created Women’s cloakroom, 28 January 1927
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Representatives Florence Kahn and Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, 1925
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