RM2B2B999–An emancipated woman with bob haircut and cigarette from the 1920s, very different from the type of woman before 1914.
RM2B2B9AD–After the outbreak of the First World War in Europe, the American President Wilson decided to enter the war on the side of France and Great Britain. In the USA, however, the prevailing opinion was to stay out of war. The picture shows an American delegation of women on their way to a peace conference that took place in the neutral Netherlands.
RM2B2B97J–An office where a secretary is working at the typewriter.
RM2B2B99R–The chairpersons of a sorority for female students. From the left: Herta Kurth, (math student), Liselotte von Dobschuetz (philosophy student) and Klara Ricke (philosophy student).
RM2B2B96G–The connection of telephone lines were made by the 'switchboard operators', as shown in the photo.
RM2B2B99B–Girl from the upper class shooting gracefully with bow and arrows in the forest. The photo is undated.
RM2B2B97B–From the very beginning of aviation there were also daring, young women who wanted to fly on their own. The picture shows one of these women, the American Margaret Perry, on her own monoplane at Bork airfield.
RM2B2B96J–Female employees decorating fashionable straw hats for men from Panama in a hat factory under low working conditions and poor pay.
RM2B2B9A2–Members of the German women's movement at the turn of the century: from left to right Anita Augspurg, Marie Stritt, Lily Braun, Nina Cauer and Sophie Goudstikker (?). The photo was taken at the Elivra Studio, which was founded by Anita Augspurg and Sophia Goudstikker in Munich in 1887.
RM2B2B99G–A snapshot from the weapons collection point of the Alexanderkaserne in Berlin in the winter of 1918/19, where, among others, some women are also responsible for ensuring that the men returning from the front deliver their weapons.
RM2B2B961–Two ladies of the better society request a donation for the collection box even from the hard working street sweeper on the so-called 'Heckenroeschentag' (Hedge Rose Day). The photo is undated.
RM2B2B962–Street cleaners in Munich.
RM2B2B96B–The picture taken a few months after the outbreak of the war, shows a young woman who has taken over the post of truck driver from her husband who had been drafted into the army.
RM2B2B98J–A butcher's shop that was considered the most modern and newest retail store in Berlin at that time. Mostly women work there, left at the cash desk, right as sales assistants.
RM2B2B9AT–Election poster asking maids to vote for List II, which advocates for better servants' regulations. In the course of the revolution, these servants' regulations were completely abolished. The poster is an example of a social-political and not party-political election campaign.
RM2B2B9A3–At the third Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt in June 1910, Dr. Lilli Sternberg is present with the number 122. She was the only woman to drive her car herself over the entire distance.
RM2B2B9AW–Gymnasts of a Berlin sports club in 1914 at the women's 80-meter run.
RM2B2B97T–In the third year of the war, the shortage of male workers had become so serious that the Berlin City Administration also decided to employ female helpers for street cleaning. The picture shows one of the first female street cleaners pouring water into the tank car used at that time.
RM2B2B97D–Instead of the landowner who was drafted into the army, the East Elbian landlady is reading out the latest dispatches on the political situation and the situation at the front to her gathered maids, servants and villeins.
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