Women’s Suffrage, 90+ years old

Women’s Suffrage, 90+ years old

From NPR:

On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, effectively granting the vote to women. Here are some photos spotted on Flickr Commons — from the decade leading to that day. There are a few fine-art photographers today who use large-format glass plate negatives to emulate the look and feel of photos from this era. It’s a laborious process, but yields beautiful images like these.


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