Boomtown Girls
"Five beautiful sisters in Williston, ND, raised with the steely grit of the old west, struggle to capture their piece of the greatest oil boom in US history."
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Modern Farmwoman : 1940
July 1940. "Farm woman washing clothes in her motor-driven washing machine. Near Lincoln, Vermont." Sliver gelatin print by Louise Rosskam.
"When I was about 4 years old I was helping my mother with the Monday wash, As I was feeding a washcloth into the Maytag's wringers, the rolls grabbed my fingers and commenced to ingest me...off my feet and all the way to my armpit. My screams brought Mom running ! I still have the scar from that Monday morning in 1953." Rick C.
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Jyoti Amge : World's Shortest Woman
"Celebrating your 18th birthday is a momentous occasion for anyone, but for tiny Jyoti Amge the milestone is even bigger news.
The 2ft teenager is already a mini celebrity in her hometown of Nagpur, India, but is now set for a huge record when she is officially declared the world's smallest woman.
And despite her miniature stature, 61.95cm-tall Jyoti hopes to celebrate being crowned the world's shortest woman by launching a Bollywood movie career."
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Safety Garb for Women Workers, ca. 1943
"Original Caption: Safety garb for women workers. The uniform at the left, complete with the plastic "bra" on the right, will prevent future occupational accidents among feminine war workers. Los Angeles, California. Acme, ca. 1943
This selection of photographs from the Records of the Women's Bureau contains images depicting women and their contributions to the war effort during World War II. The photographs show women for the first time on a mass scale and from every social and economical background preforming jobs that have been traditionally considered as men's work."
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