Emancipated Collection

Female jockeys riding gentlemen like horses
Two women jockeys with riding crops, spur on their steeds - not horses, but top-hatted and tailed gentlemen who wear bridles in their mouths

Twenties flapper girl sitting at a cocktail bar
A flapper girl from the 1920s sitting at a cocktail bar on a high stool. She is slim, wears a slinky dress, and has a cigarette in a holder in her mouth. On the bar is her glass of champagne

Bloomers in Hyde Park
A view of things to come - women wearing the trousers. All of female kind take to wearing bloomers. A kilted scotsman chats to a newly emancipated lady

Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?... 1844. Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?...vous etes fou!... - Allons bon

Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame Arthur et d'intituler mon enfant Oscar

Health and Beauty: Modern hair styles (b / w photo)
6005111 Health and Beauty: Modern hair styles (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Modern hair styles)

Health and Beauty: Can you do these? (b / w photo)
6005110 Health and Beauty: Can you do these? (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Can you do these)

Health and Beauty: Loosening the limbs (b / w photo)
6005109 Health and Beauty: Loosening the limbs (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Loosening the limbs)

Health and Beauty: Exercises for constipation (b / w photo)
6005101 Health and Beauty: Exercises for constipation (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Exercises for constipation)

Health and Beauty: Stretch your legs! (b / w photo)
6005116 Health and Beauty: Stretch your legs! (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Stretch your legs)

Health and Beauty: Stretch and swing (b / w photo)
6005108 Health and Beauty: Stretch and swing (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Stretch and swing)

Health and Beauty: Lovely to the finger-tips! (b / w photo)
6005120 Health and Beauty: Lovely to the finger-tips! (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lovely to the finger-tips)

Health and Beauty: Exercises to improve digestion (b / w photo)
6005102 Health and Beauty: Exercises to improve digestion (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Exercises to improve digestion)

Health and Beauty: Exercises for "slim-through middle"(b / w photo)
6005100 Health and Beauty: Exercises for " slim-through middle" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Health and Beauty: How do you stand? (b / w photo)
6005097 Health and Beauty: How do you stand? (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: How do you stand)

Health and Beauty: Leg swinging (b / w photo)
6005117 Health and Beauty: Leg swinging (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Leg swinging)

Health and Beauty: Aids to a lovely skin (b / w photo)
6005105 Health and Beauty: Aids to a lovely skin (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Aids to a lovely skin)

Health and Beauty: "Take a pair of sparkling eyes!"(b / w photo)
6005107 Health and Beauty: " Take a pair of sparkling eyes!" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: " Take a pair of sparkling eyes)

Health and Beauty: Beautifying your throat and chin (b / w photo)
6005114 Health and Beauty: Beautifying your throat and chin (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Beautifying your throat and chin)

Health and Beauty: Aids to a lovely skin (b / w photo)
6005112 Health and Beauty: Aids to a lovely skin (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Aids to a lovely skin)

Health and Beauty: Breathing exercises (b / w photo)
6005106 Health and Beauty: Breathing exercises (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Breathing exercises)

Don t get the clothes too blue!, 1897. Creator: BW Kilburn
Don t get the clothes too blue!, 1897. [Woman in bloomers-style bicycling outfit instructing her husband how to do the laundry

Sorting cotton for the Atlantic Cotton Compress Company, Pensacola, Florida
779080 Sorting cotton for the Atlantic Cotton Compress Company, Pensacola, Florida, 1900-10 (b/w photo) by Detroit Publishing Co. (1880-1920); Private Collection; American, out of copyright

Amelia Jenks Bloomer wearing the Bloomer costume, published by N
PNP383871 Amelia Jenks Bloomer wearing the Bloomer costume, published by N. Currier, 1851 (colour litho) by American School

Khartoum emancipated from Dervish Tyranny, building the Gordon Memorial College (engraving)
1040344 Khartoum emancipated from Dervish Tyranny, building the Gordon Memorial College (engraving) by Soper, George (1870-1942); Private Collection; (add.info)

Comic postcard, Two women chatting in underwear Date: 20th century

Scenes of cigarette production, 1887 (litho)
SLS251311 Scenes of cigarette production, 1887 (litho) by Durkin, John (fl.1887); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; eSchlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

The Way They Live, 1879 (oil on canvas)
3493183 The Way They Live, 1879 (oil on canvas) by Anshutz, Thomas Pollock (1851-1912); 61x43.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; American, out of copyright

Womens tug of war team training in Battersea Park
A womens tug-of-war team preparing to " take the strain" while training in Battersea Park, wearing sturdy boots and practical clothes. 1928

Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931) (b / w photo)
PNP249309 Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931) (b/w photo) by American Photographer; Private Collection; (add.info.: renowned for innovative surgery on the pericardium;)

Cotton Pickers, c. 1890 (oil on academy board)
3588467 Cotton Pickers, c.1890 (oil on academy board) by Walker, William Aiken (1838-1921); 17.2x29.9 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; American, out of copyright

Poster advertising Legia bicycles, Liege, Belgium, 1898
2967509 Poster advertising Legia bicycles, Liege, Belgium, 1898 by Gaudy, Georges (1872-1940); (add.info.: Illustration by Georges Gaudy (1872-1940), Belgium 1898); Fototeca Gilardi; Belgian

Womens Suffrage in the USA: Women Voting in the Wyoming Territory after Winning That
PNP383870 Womens Suffrage in the USA: Women Voting in the Wyoming Territory after Winning That Right in 1869 (colour engraving) by American School

Cigarette Manufacturing, 1883 (engraving)
SLS251307 Cigarette Manufacturing, 1883 (engraving) by Upham, C. (fl.1883); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; eSchlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard; American

Men and women leaving the mill after work, carrying lunch-pails, 1868 (engraving)
SLS251301 Men and women leaving the mill after work, carrying lunch-pails, 1868 (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Wash Day, c. 1890 (oil on academy board)
3588466 Wash Day, c.1890 (oil on academy board) by Walker, William Aiken (1838-1921); 13.3x29.9 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; American, out of copyright

Women strikers, ready to confront the men in the mines, 1891 (colour litho)
SLS251310 Women strikers, ready to confront the men in the mines, 1891 (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Women making corsets, 1884 (engraving)
SLS251304 Women making corsets, 1884 (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; eSchlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

The American Waltham Watch Company, Massachusetts, 1885 (engraving) (see also 251194)
SLS251300 The American Waltham Watch Company, Massachusetts, 1885 (engraving) (see also 251194) by American School, (19th century); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

GLAMOROUS AVIATRIX
A glamorous blond Aviatrix, sporting red goggles and a cream flying helmet and jumpsuit enjoys a well earned smoke in between flights Date: 1933

Emancipated women of America, satire 1851
Emancipated women of America, as depicted by the illustrator of Alice. Date: 1851

The Eton Crop
" The Eton Crop - beloved of the moderns, detested by the old." Worn here by a Lucien Lelong mannequin. 1927

Emancipation, her man at arms-length on a piece of string
Female Emancipation - A well-dressed lady keeps her man (in WW1 military attire) safely at arms-length on a piece of string. Date: circa 1916

Two Women in a Bar 1928
Two elegantly dressed women in a bar. Date: 1928

Suffragette Emancipated New Woman. The New Woman portrayed in mans attire, cigarette in mouth, golf clubs over her shoulder and bicycle at her side. Date: circa 1905

Drawings Prints, Print, Design, Theater, Program, Grapnel, Emancipated, Les, Programmes
Drawings and Prints, Print, Design for Theater Program for The Grapnel and The Emancipated from Les Programmes du Theatre-Libre, Artist, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, French, Paris 1867-1936 Paris, Ibels

Three male figures and one female figure standing on different coloured columns of various heights

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"Emancipated: Breaking Boundaries and Defying Expectations" In the roaring twenties, a flapper girl sits at a cocktail bar, embodying the spirit of liberation and rebellion. With her bobbed hair and daring fashion choices, she symbolizes a generation that refused to conform. Meanwhile, on the racecourse, female jockeys ride gentlemen like horses - an unconventional sight that challenges traditional gender roles. These fearless women prove that they too can excel in male-dominated fields. Taking us back to 1874, we witness a woman reading the Scriptures by Thomas Waterman Wood. In this powerful image, she represents those who sought spiritual emancipation and questioned societal norms through their faith. Hyde Park becomes a stage for change as women don bloomers - loose trousers challenging restrictive Victorian attire. Their bold choice reflects their determination to break free from corsets and embrace comfort while demanding equality. The Eton Crop revolutionizes beauty standards as women adopt short hairstyles inspired by men's cuts. This audacious move not only defies conventional femininity but also signifies freedom from societal expectations of long locks. Health and Beauty take center stage with black-and-white photos showcasing exercises aimed at physical liberation. From loosening limbs to combating constipation, these images encourage individuals to take control of their bodies' well-being. Stretching legs becomes more than just physical exercise; it is an act of empowerment as women strive for independence in all aspects of life. They swing freely into new territories where they are no longer confined or limited by society's constraints. And finally, lovely fingertips adorned with modern nail art become symbols of self-expression and autonomy in an era when even small acts like painting one's nails were seen as rebellious acts against conformity. "Emancipated" captures moments throughout history when individuals dared to challenge norms and redefine themselves on their own terms. It celebrates those who fought for freedom from societal expectations – be it through fashion, sports, spirituality, or personal well-being.