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(a) Mrs. Costigan, Dr. Parker, Mrs. Penfield, Dr. Hebord, Mrs. Catt, M. Shuler, M. Kennere. Building where, in March 1870, the first jury sat, in which women, as voting citizens, took part. (b) This tablet marks the site where the first woman jury served during March 1870. (c) Mrs. Louisa Swain. First woman voter in Wyoming, first in world. (d) Mrs. Martha Simon Boies Atkinson. The first woman bailiff in the world.

Portrait of M. Carey Thomas as a child, reproduced from original ambrotype.

Detail of William Halsted, from "The Four Doctors, painted by John Singer Sargeant.

(a) Widows of France working as porters on French railroads. French women transferring luggage at a railway station near Paris. A great deal of this sort of work is being done by women, who not only act as porters but also fire and drive the engines. They are commonly known as widows of France. Every woman who has filled these positions has released a man for some labor which aids in bringing the war to a speedier and victorious termination, 7/21/1917. (b) Women replacing men in ammunition factories of France. One of the most important industries of the countries now at war is the manufacture of ammunition for the men at the front. The women have taken an active part in all the occuopations left vacant by the men who went to the aid of their country, but have been especially active in the munition factories. They are working hard in the new plants set up for making the messengers of death. The accompanying photogaph is but a common scene in France. The women are seen filling the shells with shrapnel in one of the factories at Chamond, 8/31/1915.

Publicity floats in suffrage parades.

Copy print of a pastel drawing by Henrietta Briggs-Wall. Miss Frances E. Willard is depicted in the center of the image, surrounded by likenesses of an idiot, a convict, a Native American Indian, and an insane man. Briggs-Wall, of Kansas, planned this picture, found subjects for the photographs, and exhibited it at the World's Fair, in Chicago, 1893. Small reproductions were sold, circulated from coast to coast, making many converts.

(a) Mrs. J. N. Hartshough. The first woman who served on a petit jury. (b) Mrs. Stephen Boyd, the first woman in the world to receive a jury summons. (c) Mrs. Sarah W. Pease, the first woman who served on a grand jury.

(a) Early and late portraits of S.B. Anthony. (b) Anne Miller, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary Anthony, and Susan B. Anthony. (c) Mrs. Stanton, her daughter, and grandchild. (d) Portraits of early reformers and suffrage leaders. Top, L-R: M.L. Livermore, Y.W. Higginson. Bottom, L-R: Dr. Wendell Phillips/Mass., Mrs. A.S. White/New Hamp., Dr. W.L. Garrison/Mass., and M. Woodward/Mass.

(a) Recruits of the heroic Russian "Batallion of Death, First World War. (b) A Russian girl soldier. Second World War.

(a) Portrait of John Stuart Mill. (b) Portrait of Mentia Taylor Mill. When the "Woman's Rights Convention" was held in Worcester, Mass in 1850, Mrs. Mentia Taylor, (a widow, whose husband, Peter Taylor, had been a member of Parliament) wrote an account of it for a British magazine and thus started the movement in Great Britain. She later married John Stuart Mill, who introduced the first woman suffrage bill in Parliament.