A head-and-shoulders press photo portrait of Edward Prince Richards, an intersex person who petitioned to change his name and to be legally declared a woman. The details of the case are hard to determine, but according to press reports, his request to change his gender and name were successful. He.....

A commercial studio portrait of two Newhaven fish wives, the women who gutted and prepared fish and hauled the results to market in the village of Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. The fish women were popular subjects for painters and photographers because of their distinctive vertically striped dresses. This image shows.....

A portrait of a Newhaven fish wife, one of the many women who worked in the fishing industry in 19th century Scotland. Men did most of the fishing and women gutted and prepared the fish and hauled the results to market. The fish women of Newhaven, a village north of.....

A rare original cabinet card of the most well-known portrait of the anarchist and radical labor organizer Lucy Parsons, taken by German immigrant photographer Louis Gogler. Gogler operated a large studio in the Bowery neighborhood in New York City but Parsons obtained the copyright for the image and obtained the.....

One of Lange's powerful portraits of destitute farmworkers taken in California in 1936 while she was working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. This image shows Jess Power.....

Portrait of an Inuit woman, Kow-ear-nuk, standing at a slight angle to the camera, with a rack of split, drying salmon behind her. A similar image, captioned "Kow-ear-nuk and his (sic) drying salmon", appeared in many editions of Ella Higginson's Alaska: The Great Country, first published in 1908, and has.....

Portrait of Wy-ung-ena, an Inuit (possibly Alutiiq) woman, smoking a pipe and surrounded by metal pots, probably taken in Port Douglas, Alaska. Wy-ung-ena was a frequent subject for Nowell. One of his most widely reproduced images is a picture of Wy-ung-ena and her husband A-pa-look, and their child (neg. 4089).....

One of Holmes' (a second generation British photographer working in Pakistan in the early twentieth century) finest art prints, a platinum print of a studio portrait of a young Pastun woman taken in the North-West Frontier Province of India (near what is Peshawar, Pakistan, today). Holmes is best known for.....

A large-format occupational albumen photograph of two Sinhalese brassworkers, probably by Scowen, the most active photographer in Sri Lanka at the time. The image shows a man wearing a sarong seated on the floor with a large brass platter on his lap and a hammer and chisel in his hands. A......

A gelatin silver print photograph showing a Pima (probably) woman kneeling on the ground with a basket on her lap. Behind her sits a young child, with the door of a wickiup dwelling in the background. She is surrounded by basket-making supplies, laying on cloth blankets, in finished baskets, and.....

Five carte de visite (CDV) photographs of women employed in coal mining at Wigan and vicinity in the 1880s. Pit brow women (or lasses, formerly) worked at the top of British coal shafts, sifting coal and removing rocks, which was some of the most physically demanding work done by women anywhere.....

The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....

A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph is blank.....