Women in Trousers: A Visual Archive
Home
About the archive
The Archive
Bloomers and rationals
Free-wheeling feminism
Trouser Roles
Work and education
Writers, Artists, Designers
Fashion and Leisure
Sporting trousers
Wearing the trousers in wartime
Land Girls and Lumber Jills
Astride two worlds
Madonna and Child
En-Armoured
Tara
Quarantine
Frou-Frou
Gallery
Who wore the trousers?
Gallery
Comments
Work and education
Bayard Taylor, ‘Peasant women at work’, 1856. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004662082/
Bayard Taylor, ‘Icelandic women working’, 1862. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004662114/
Old print of a Wigan Pit Brow Girl, 1874. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Wigan Pit Brow Lass card. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Pit Brow Lasses. A CDV card taken by Wragg Wigan. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Cabinet photograph by H Wragg. of Mary Harrison aged 16 taken, late 1800s. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
A CDV card taken by R Little, Clarence Yard. Wigan. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Wigan Pit Brow Lasses card. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Colliery lasses by J. Cooper, late 1880s. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Early postcard of a Colliery Girl. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
A CDV card of Pit Brow Lass by J.Cooper, 1890s. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Pit Brow Workers. Douglas Bank Colliery, c. 1890. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Wigan Pit Brow Lasses. Postcard . 1906. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Postcard of Wigan Colliery Girl, 1909. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Postcard of Colliery Girls at Work, 1913. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Women surface workers, date unknown. Source: Wigan World. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Colliery Girls, Wigan. Scanned from an old postcard. Wigan world http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photos/
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919), First Woman Army Medical Officer (American Civil War), Suffragette and Dress Reformer, c. 1912. Source: Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005684835/
Anonymous, Une Culotte; or, a New Woman. An impossible story of modern Oxford. By Tivoli ... Illustrated, etc. (London: Digby, Long & Co., 1894), p. 111. Source: The Illustration Archive. http://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/image/11225854195
Anonymous, Une Culotte; or, a New Woman. An impossible story of modern Oxford. By Tivoli ... Illustrated, etc. (London: Digby, Long & Co., 1894), p. 241. Source: The Illustration Archive. http://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/image/11228176726
Anonymous, Une Culotte; or, a New Woman. An impossible story of modern Oxford. By Tivoli ... Illustrated, etc. (London: Digby, Long & Co., 1894), p. 197. Source: The Illustration Archive. http://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/image/11227671173
Two Women, Palestine, 1893. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b22282/
Woman decorating pottery, Pueblo Isleta, New Mexico, c. 1898. Source: New York Public Library https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-35b3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Arnold Genthe, Three Women on Kearney Street, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/agc.7a08834/
Arnold Genthe, Three Women on Kearney Street, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/agc.7a08834/
Arnold Genthe, Three Women on Kearney Street, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/agc.7a08834/
Arnold Genthe, Three Women on Kearney Street, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896. Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/agc.7a08834/
Helene Dutrieu (1877-1961) – Belgian aviator, cyclist, hospital director and journalist. 26 September 1911. Source: Bain News Service, photograph collection. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014689700/
Helene Dutrieu (1877-1961) – Belgian aviator, cyclist, hospital director and journalist. 26 September 1911. Source: Bain News Service, photograph collection. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014689635/
Postcard (front) of Dorothy Frances Curtis of Cardiff (1918). Source: Glamorgan Archives Ref. DXFX/19. Note: Photograph of Dorothy Frances Curtis of Cardiff, employed on war work and dressed in protective clothing, including trousers, as a supervisor in a munitions factory where girls packed explosives into shell cases, in Birmingham. The rear of the postcard is signed 'Trousers' as this is likely to have been the first time that Dorothy had worn trousers.
Postcard (back) of Dorothy Frances Curtis of Cardiff (1918). Source: Glamorgan Archives Ref. DXFX/19.
‘Anita Marburg, 1923’ [LSE student 1922-23 Social Science Cert., became Assistant Lecturer in Economics Vassar College, New York]. Source: LSE Library, UK. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/4168845943/
Bernard Partridge, 'Free and Independent', in Punch, June 27th 1928, p. 713. Source: Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University.
Coloured postcard, retouched, showing Violet Walker (Mrs Violet Ingram) in usherette’s uniform from the Broadway Cinema, 1936. Source: Garden City Collection. Ref. FGCHM 397.
Five U.S. Congressional Secretaries in overalls. New York Times, 1920. Source: Wikipedia commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Congressional_Secretaries,_1920.JPG
Elsie Lee Soong with bundles of medical supplies, Shanghai, c.1937. Photograph by Malcolm Rosholt. Source: Mei-Fei Elrick, Tess Johnston and Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol. Ref. Ro-n1043. https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/ro-n1043
Photograph of Mrs Pettitt being fitted into an Irvin jacket (Irving Air Chute of Great Britain Ltd.) and trousers (flying suit) by three people. Dated July 1939 on reverse. Source: Garden City Collection. Ref. FGCHM 2008.107.3.