How about some women's history for your Wednesday? Today we're sharing stories and objects from women who have shaped America with #BecauseOfHerStory. Discover more: womenshistory.si.edu/herstory
During World War I, more than 23,000 nurses risked their lives to care for troops as nurses. Those women did not have the right to vote and did not get permanent commissioned rank.
This poster from 1918 at our @cooperhewitt asks women to do more.
This poster from 1918 at our @cooperhewitt asks women to do more.
@cooperhewitt Artist and community organizer Kat Rodriguez crafted this 11-foot-tall Statue of Liberty holding a tomato aloft. Florida farm workers marched 230 miles with it, calling for better wages, conditions, environmental practices and dignity. Today it's in our @amhistorymuseum.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum Researchers at our @NMAAHC think this woman may be Sarah Loguen Fraser. She was one of about 115 African American women doctors in the U.S. in the 1890s—though African American midwives assisted in most births in the South before the 20th century.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC Kay Sekimachi was 15 when she painted her temporary home—this Japanese American incarceration camp—in an art school founded by a fellow prisoner. Today Sekimachi is a renowned fiber artist. Her painting is in our @ArchivesAmerArt.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC @ArchivesAmerArt What's your weekly routine?
These 1950s tea towels from @SmithsonianACM were embroidered by Mary Thompson Ford and her daughters Blanche and Ethel. Embroidering their housework schedule, they paralleled men’s office or factory schedules and emphasize the value of unpaid work.
These 1950s tea towels from @SmithsonianACM were embroidered by Mary Thompson Ford and her daughters Blanche and Ethel. Embroidering their housework schedule, they paralleled men’s office or factory schedules and emphasize the value of unpaid work.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC @ArchivesAmerArt @SmithsonianACM Artist Romaine Brooks left her abusive family in Rhode Island to live in Paris, where she lived openly as a lesbian. In her self-portrait, she wears men's clothing, part of her carefully crafted androgynous style. Today her work is in the collection of our @americanart.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC @ArchivesAmerArt @SmithsonianACM @americanart In the 1920s and 1930s, Chinese American actress Anna May Wong struggled to find roles that fought stereotypes. In World War II, she put her career on hold to help the U.S. with Chinese war relief. Her portrait by Nickolas Muray is in the collection of our @smithsoniannpg.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC @ArchivesAmerArt @SmithsonianACM @americanart @smithsoniannpg Wilma Rudolph, an Olympic medalist, brought integration to her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee because she refused to attend segregated homecoming events. Our @NMAAHC has this souvenir program.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC @ArchivesAmerArt @SmithsonianACM @americanart @smithsoniannpg “We just plowed ahead and went into the fields we found most exciting.” –Astronomer Heidi Hammel
Hammel, Fran Bagenal, Candice Hansen and Carolyn Porco broke into male-dominated astronomy on the Voyager program in 1977. This model of the Voyager probe is in our @airandspace.
Hammel, Fran Bagenal, Candice Hansen and Carolyn Porco broke into male-dominated astronomy on the Voyager program in 1977. This model of the Voyager probe is in our @airandspace.
@cooperhewitt @amhistorymuseum @NMAAHC @ArchivesAmerArt @SmithsonianACM @americanart @smithsoniannpg @airandspace Learn more women’s history with more than 60 objects on our website—and with more than 300 objects in @SmithsonianBook’s “Smithsonian American Women.” womenshistory.si.edu/herstory #BecauseOfHerStory
