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From the Guardian : Glimpses of women through time: 130 years of National Geographic images

Glimpses of women through time: 130 years of National Geographic images

 On a farm in Kentucky, girls play during a break from a daylong mother-daughter retreat to help girls understand and appreciate their bodies as they change with the onset of puberty. Photograph: Kitra Cahana/Courtesy National Geographic
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In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, National Geographic has published Women: A Century of Change, a book that draws upon the organization’s expansive 130-year-old archive to showcase photographs of and by women. As Susan Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, notes in the introduction, the book is meant to “offer glimpses of women through time – how they were perceived, how they were treated, how much power they had or didn’t have – up to the present day.” The ultimate aim, she writes, is to “bring more women’s lives into the light”. Here are some of our favorite photographs from the book

  • Portrait of an Ojibway, or Chippewa Indian girl
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    Portrait of an Ojibway, or Chippewa Indian girl.

  • Photo of a women’s suffrage march on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, which was published in the 1913 issue of National Geographic
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    Photo of a women’s suffrage march on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, which was published in the 1913 issue of National Geographic.

  • Three Japanese women dressed in traditional kimonos pose behind cherry blossoms in 1918
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    Three Japanese women dressed in traditional kimonos pose behind cherry blossoms in 1918.

  • Jou Jou, captive chimpanzee reaches out its hand to Dr Jane Goodall
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    Jou Jou, captive chimpanzee reaches out it’s hand to Dr Jane Goodall.

  • Schoolgirls in Ghana help prepare for the opening of the Maranatha maternity clinic by carrying chairs to the ceremony
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    Schoolgirls in Ghana help prepare for the opening of the Maranatha Maternity Clinic by carrying chairs to the ceremony.

  • Dressed in costume, a tourist takes in the views of the canals and gondolas in Venice
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    Dressed in costume, a tourist takes in the views of the canals and gondolas in Venice.

  • Chief Caleen Audrey Sisk Franco – the spiritual leader and last speaker of her tribe’s language – sends smoke prayers toward Mount Shasta in California
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    Chief Caleen Audrey Sisk Franco - the spiritual leader and last speaker of her tribe’s language- sends smoke prayers toward Mount Shasta in California.

  • An explorer climbs over giant cave mammillaries that were once underwater in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
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    An explorer climbs over giant cave mammillaries that were once underwater in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.

  • On a farm in Kentucky, girls play during a break from a daylong mother-daughter retreat to help girls understand and appreciate their bodies as they change with the onset of puberty
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    On a farm in Kentucky, girls play during a break from a daylong mother-daughter retreat to help girls understand and appreciate their bodies as they change with the onset of puberty.

  • Pregnant Noor Nisa, in labor, is assisted by her mother after her car broke down on the way to the hospital in Afghanistan
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    Pregnant Noor Nisa, in labor, is assisted by her mother after her car broke down on the way to the hospital in Afghanistan.
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