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Four WASPs (Womens Air Force Service Pilots) in flight clothing are shown leaving their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Pistol Packin' Mama" at the four engine school at Lockbourne Field, Ohio, mid-1944. Left to right: Frances Greene, Margaret "Peg" Kirshner (Stevenson), Ann Waldner, Blanche Osborne.

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PhotoQuest/Getty Images

Ellen DeGeneres

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Firooz Zahedi, Ellen DeGeneres, 1997. Gift of Time magazine, National Portrait Gallery (NPG.99.TC23.1) ©Firooz Zahedi

Gladys Bentley

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Photo of Gladys Bentley

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Unidentified, Gladys Bentley,1927-1945. Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916

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Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago. Chicago Illinois United States, 1916. Photograph.

Smithsonian Merrie Monarch Womens Canoe Carving Program

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Photos by Dino Morrow Photography

Ruth Asawa's identification card

Object of the Month
Ruth Asawa's Identity Card

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Ruth Asawa internment camp ID, 1943. Gift of the children of Ruth Asawa, National Portrait Gallery (NPG.2016.2).

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"Votes for Women" button

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"Votes for Women" button, National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Archives.