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www.elizabethfreeman.org/ Elisabeth Freeman (1876-1942), English-born American suffragist, also active in the anti-lynching and free speech movements.

She is such an inspirational person to us all.

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This image has been used in an Indicommons.org then-and-now post for International Women's Day. Thank you, Ms. Freeman!

Great photo.. a bit ironic.... having Freeman, as her surname....

Hot enough to give the horse a shower, yet the man is still in long sleeves... People lived at a different standard then. How could so much change so fast.

That's nothing, the women of the day wore long dresses, petticoats and hats. Their kids often wore WHITE dresses and formal clothing, and the laundry was done by hand, laughable how today with modern washing machines people complain about laundry duty of washing a few blue jeans and tee shirts!

During the July, 1911, six-day heat wave in New York City, 146 people died, along with 600 horses. Story in The New York Times, July 8, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E...

The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) was formed in March 1941, after considerable lobbying by women keen to serve and by the Chief of the Air Staff, who wanted to release male personnel serving in Australia for service overseas. The WAAAF was the first and largest of the wartime Australian women's services. It was disbanded in December 1947.[1 On 4 February 1941, the formation of an air force women's auxiliary was approved by the War Cabinet. It had taken 14 months of difficult discussion and opposition to achieve this final outcome. The formation of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) set a precedent for the formation of other women's service organisations such as The Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) and the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Approximately 27,000 women enlisted in the WAAAF between 15 March 1941 and 24 August 1945. In June 1941, Squadron Officer Clare Stevenson was appointed Director of the WAAAF.[1] She took over from Flight Officer Mary Bell, wife of an RAAF group captain and former Australian Commandant of the volunteer Women's Air Training Corps, who had held temporary command for the first three months of the WAAAF's existence.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Auxiliary_Australian_Air_...