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

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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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Katharine Carl, The Empress Dowager, Tze Hsi, of China, Quing dynasty, 1903. Transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Freer|Sackler (S2011.16.1-2a-ap).

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Hope Gangloff, Julie Packard, 2019. Gift of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Board of Trustees, National Portrait Gallery, PHOTO Mark Gulezian. © Hope Gangloff

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Portrait of an Empress