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"For the Defense"

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Description: Three men restraining a woman in a still from the film "For the Defense." Another woman and a man are shielding a third woman.
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Algerian Women in Tent

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian women receiving treatment in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. One woman is nursing a baby. Another woman is standing while examining an...
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Woman at Work

Date: 03 24 1969
Description: Young woman at work designing a magazine cover.
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Eiji Okada and Kyôko Kishida in Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes)

Date: 1964
Description: Eiji Okada, as the amateur entomologist Niki Jumpei, and Kyôko Kishida, as the woman, in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes, 196...
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Algerian Woman and Child

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian woman is holding a baby in a tent. The woman is wearing a shawl, a turban, and a patterned dress. The tent is made of striped cloth.
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Panamanian Women Grinding Corn

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women grinding corn at Yawissa, near the Chucunaque River in Panama. Two women wearing wrapped fabric around their waists are grindin...
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Debutante Training

Date: 08 25 1967
Description: A woman is holding hands with two young women, with several young men and women looking on from behind them. Caption reads: "Walk slowly," were the instruc...
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Mae West and friends

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Description: Mae West poses with a group of friends sometime in the 1910s or early 1920s. Besides West, the group consists of six women, including a Black woman, and a...
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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in "Woman of the Year"

Date: 1942
Description: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are dressed in wedding clothes in this publicity still for "Woman of the Year" (MGM 1942).
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Hans and Mary Kunzler

Date: 04 25 1979
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing sitting together, with the woman sitting on the arm of the chair. Caption reads: "Hans and Mary Kunzler."
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Vel Phillips Sharing a Drink

Date: 07 1980
Description: Vel Phillips stands between two women. They are all holding wine glasses. The woman on the left is wearing glasses and a turtleneck. The woman on the right...
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Friendly Persuasion

Date: 08 06 1987
Description: Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair.
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Golf Game

Date: 04 26 1967
Description: Women golfers on the course.
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"Scarlet Days"

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Description: Still from the film "Scarlet Days." A group of men and women are standing on a street and pointing toward a woman who is leaning against a pole. A number o...
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Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
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Panamanian Children with American Woman

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian children talking to an American woman near the Chucunaque River in Panama. The American woman is wearing a safari hat and jumpsuit an...
Poster

"The Lure of a Woman" Poster

Date: 1921
Description: Poster for the film "The Lure of a Woman." A man, woman, and a little girl are standing on the steps of a house. The little girl is reaching out to a woma...
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A Sheer Winner

Date: 03 22 1989
Description: A woman posing in a coat with matching pants and holding a domino mask over her face. Behind her is another woman posing, also with a domino mask. Caption ...
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Family Night Watching the Tube

Date: 09 30 1967
Description: A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV.

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