Photographs of young women embracing 1920s beauty culture and style.
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Covers of Life magazine depicting flappers enjoying the newfound freedoms of the 1920s.
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Advertising related to the challenges of maintaining feeding a family on a tight budget.
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Dresses demonstrating the influence of mass media on daily life.
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A page from a union scrapbook highlighting the involvement of women in Depression Era picket lines.
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The story of Southern widow who transformed her need to work into a high-ranking government career.
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The story of a documentary photographer who captured the lives of citizens from the New Deal through World War II.
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Propaganda posters recruiting women to different types of war work.
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The story of an ambitious woman who used her intelligence and privileged family connections to fight for social reform on the largest national and international stages.
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Photographs of women sharecroppers taken by agents of the Farm Security Administration.
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