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"Lenape
Birthing Practices, " ca. 1000 to 1650, an illustration of a menstrual hut and other Lenape
practices. |
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Lenape
Pottery Making, ca. 1000 to 1650, a modern drawing depicting Lenape women making pottery. |
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"Sarah
Kiersted," 17th century, a 1936 painting of Kiersted with Chief Oratam. |
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The Schuyler
Patent, map by William Bond, 1710. |
| 1776 - 1843 |
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Oil
portrait of Jannetje Vrelandt Drummond, 1776. |
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Engraving
of �Washington's Reception on the Bridge at
Trenton,� 1789. |
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"Women at the
Polls in New Jersey;" a newspaper engraving from 1880 picturing women voting in 1797. |
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Jarena Lee
(1783-unknown), the first known woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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Hannah
Kinney's Records of the Newark Female Charitable Society, 1803-1804. |
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Portrait of a scrubwoman, by Baroness Hyde de Neuville, 1822.
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Charlotte Bonaparte�s depiction of Lebanon, New
Jersey, 1824.
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Portrait
of Hanna Hoyt, a noted educator, 1837. |
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"Esther
Saunders," pencil sketch by Anne H. Denn, c.1840. |
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1844-1879 |
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887), an internationally celebrated reformer of
care for the mentally ill. |
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Carrie
Cook Sanborn, nineteenth century Quaker, artist, head
of the Cedars Art Colony, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, 1844.
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The
Lincoln Children, a portrait painted by Susan Waters in 1845. |
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The Clara Barton School, Bordentown, from a postcard c.1920. |
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Eagleswood
House at the Raritan Bay Union, 1858. |
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Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan (1825-1915), Roman Catholic religious, educator,
and founder of the Sisters of Charity of New Jersey. |
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Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, suffragist, ca. 1917. |
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Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (1830-1922), a novelist and writer on household
management was known to readers by her pen name, "Marion Harland." |
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Opheleton
Seminary for Young Ladies; Plainfield, 1860. |
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Lily Martin Spencer (1822-1902)
painting, "War Spirit at Home,"
one of the most popular paintings of the mid-9th century,1866.
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Cranberry Bog, Ocean County - Pickers at Work; a Newspaper illustration from
Harper's Weekly, November 10, 1878. |
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Strawberry
Fields, Burlington County,1869, a Harper's Weekly newspaper illustration. |
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Women
cotton thread workers, c. 1890, an engraving of workers at the Clark Thread Company,
Kearney. |
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Morris
Canal Workers, 1885, an illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. |
1880 - 1920 |
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Annie Oakley (1860-1926), expert sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West Show. |
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Evelyn College, c.1890, a photograph of students. |
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A mural, Unity, created by
Violet Oakley, which decorates the
Senate chamber of the Pennsylvania State Capitol, 1900. |
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Women
Insurance Workers, Newark, 1895, a photograph of policy writers at Prudential Insurance
Company. |
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Mary Philbrook (1872-1958) became the first New Jersey woman lawyer to gain
admittance to the bar in 1895 as a result of an enabling act of the New Jersey
legislature. |
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"Bessie" Holmes Moore (1875-1959), a photograph from an 1892 issue
of Harper's Young People Magazine. |
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Jennie
Tuttle Hobart (1849-1941), ca. 1897, when she was Second Lady of the nation during the
first administration of William McKinley. |
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College of St. Elizabeth, 1903, a photograph of the first graduating class. |
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Headquarters
of the Newark Female Charitable Society, 305 Halsey Street, Newark. |
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Juliet Clannon Cushing, advocate of protective labor legislation for women. |
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Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901), heroic nurse who lost her life in the battle
to eradicate yellow fever. |
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Pillar of Fire, 1914 November 25, the cover of the church
publication picturing a group of women missionaries. |
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Alice Huyler Ramsey (1886-1983), a pioneer endurance automobile racer. |
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Ridgewood High School Women's Basketball Team, 1909. |
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Working Women's Gymnastic Club, 1907, a Paterson women silk workers' athletic
club. |
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Marietta Boggio Botto and her family, ca. 1910. |
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Lillian Ford Feickert (1877-1945), president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage
Association, 1912-1920. |
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Logo
of the Women's Political Union of New Jersey, 1912. |
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Women Silk Workers, Paterson, 1913. |
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Suffragist Mina C. Van Winkle, 1915. |
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Suffragist
petitioning a New Jersey canal worker, photograph, 1915. |
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Suffragist
poll watcher during the 1915 New Jersey referendum. |
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Whittier
House Playground for children, 1915. |
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Whittier
House Kindergarten Class, 1915. |
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"Don�t Forget the Band Concert," photo of
suffrage campaign band,1915.
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"Passing the Suffrage Torch," photo
of suffrage campaign event, 1915.
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Women baseball players advertise woman
suffrage, photograph.
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"Well, Boys, we saved the home, "
political cartoon.
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), an expert in scientific management. |
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Alice Paul at National Woman's Party headquarters, c. 1917. |
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Alice Paul (1885-1979) of Moorestown, militant suffragist. |
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Suffragists
working to raise money for Liberty Bonds, photograph, 1917. |
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Julia
Hurlbut of Morristown (1882 - 1962), suffragist and relief worker,
photograph 1918. |
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Elizabeth Coleman White (1871-1954), developer of the nation's first
cultivated blueberry. |
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Delivery
room at the Newark Maternity Hospital, photograph, 1917. |
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"On
the Way to the Nightshift," 1920. |
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"Day
Rest after Night in the Mill," 1920. |
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Jury of Women, Newark, 1920. |
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Douglass College Students, c. 1925. |
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A
promotional poster advertising a performance by Ruth
St. Denis (1879-1968), innovative dancer and choreographer, 1920. |
| 1921 - 1960 |
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Nellie Morrow
Parker (1902-), the first African American school teacher in Bergen County. |
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The New
Jersey Republican, April 1923, a cover photo of Juliet Clannon Cushing
(1845-1934) being congratulated for the passage of the night work bill. |
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Elsie
Driggs, a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey was the only woman
artist who participated in the Precisionist Movement in American art,
1927. |
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The front page of the New Jersey State Federation News,
the newspaper of the NJ State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, with photograph of
Florence
Spearing Randolph (1866-1951), its founder,1927. |
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Whittier
House Cooking Class, 1928. |
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Domestic
science class, New Jersey State Manual Training and Industrial School
for Colored Youth, photograph, 1932. |
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New
Jersey Organization of Teachers of Colored Children, 1932. |
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Marie Hilson Katzenbach, (1882-1970), an advocate for education in New
Jersey. |
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American abstract painter, Suzy Frelinghuysen
(1911-1988),
1938.
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Mary Norton and the Women of the 80th Congress, 1947. |
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Striking
Woolen Workers, Passaic, 1926, a photo of three young women strikers and a police officer. |
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Strikers'
Children's Kitchen, Passaic, 1926. Photograph of children outside a relief kitchen during
the Passaic woolen strike. |
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Eleanor Egg (1909- ), a pioneer woman athlete. |
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Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961), novelist and journalist. |
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Watch Dial
Painters, c. 1922-1923, a photograph of workers at the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange. |
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Rita Sapiro
Finkler (1888-1968), path-breaking physician and pioneering endocrinologist. |
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Mary
Roebling (1905-1994), a reprint of the article " Banker in High Heels" from the Greater
Philadelphia Magazine, July 1952. |
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Child Labor on New Jersey Farms, 1940. |
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Dorothy Cross (1906-1974), an expert on the Delaware Indians and New Jersey
archeology. Photographed here in 1937. |
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Marion Thompson Wright (1902-1962), an African-American historian and
teacher. |
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Buying
Victory Garden Seed, c.1943. |
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Marion
Hankins, a member of a WWII aircraft riveting team, c.1943. |
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Women
workers at the Federal Shipyard, Newark, 1943, sewing safety nets on a destroyer escort. |
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Ruth
Cheney Streeter (1895-1990), the first director of the United States
Marine Corps Women's Reserve, in military uniform, 1943. |
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Women
in the U. S. Army, 1944, a photograph of WACs at Fort Hancock. |
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Mary Yamashita Nagao, 1920-1985. Photograph at Manzanar Relocation Center, c
1943. |
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Joy
Bright Hancock (1898-1986), a military portrait, ca. 1945, showing Hancock in her
WAVES officers uniform. |
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Racially Integrated Classroom, Berlin Township, 1952. |
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Alberta Gonzalez (1914-1996), a migrant farm worker and labor leader. |
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Florence
Price Dwyer (1902-1976), a campaign flyer illustrating the techniques she used to appeal
to voters, 1956. |
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Florence Peshine Eagleton, (1870-1953), the first woman to serve as a
trustee of Rutgers University. |
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Food Relief for Striking Westinghouse Workers, 1956. A photograph of women
collecting groceries for strikers. |
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Dorothy Daggett Eldridge, (1903-1986), the founder of the New Jersey
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. |
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Lena Frances Edwards, MD
(1900 -1986), physician and presidential Medal of
Freedom honoree. |
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Dionne
Warwick and the composer Burt Bacharach have collaborated on numerous
Grammy Award-winning songs. |
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Mildred Barry Hughes (1902-1995), the first woman elected to the New Jersey
Senate, 1965. |
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Science students at Felician College, 1968. |
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"Women’s March for Equality," August 26, 1970, a photograph of
marchers at the Garden State Plaza, Paramus. |
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Male and Female Students at Rutgers College, 1972. |
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Ann
Rosensweig Klein (1923-1986), ran a gubernatorial candidate in the Democratic primary in
1972. |
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Millicent Hammond Fenwick (1910-1992), United States Congresswoman, ca. 1982. |
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Helen S. Meyner (1928-1997), Congresswoman from Phillipsburg, meeting
constituents, 1970s. |
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Joyce
Carol Oates, noted novelist and essayist, began teaching creative
writing at Princeton University in 1978. |
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Jane Grey
Burgio, 1981, New Jersey's first female secretary of state. |
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Oscar-
winning actress
Celeste Holm (1919- ) has had a long and productive career in theatre
motion pictures and television. |
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�Arnetha
as a child while living in Newark,� photograph by Helen
Stummer, 1985.
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Marilyn J. Morheuser (1924-1995), an influential litigator of public school
finance issues.
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Hon. Marie L. Garibaldi (1934- ), the first woman to serve as a New Jersey
Supreme Court Judge. |
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Christine Todd Whitmann
(1946- ). Campaign flyer, "Christie Whitman’s Blueprint for a Better
Education," 1993.
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Grace
Hartigan, abstract expressionist, 1995.
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Toni
Morrison,1993 Noble Prize in
Literature and 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning author, 2000.
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Portrait of Bernarda Bryson
Shahn, at
99, by Mel Leipzig.
2001.
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�Goddea, Tea Time on Good Friday," photograph by Helen
Stummer, 2001.
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The
cover of the eighth novel of best-selling mystery writer Janet
Evanovich, 2002. |
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