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EVB2937953: Title page from the December 1845 issue of THE LOWELL OFFERING, a magazine written and published by the young women working in the Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell was a custom built mill town, with company owned boarding houses for its female employees who made to a month / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938016: William 'Big Bill' Haywood (1869-1928), was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an leader in the Socialist Party of Americ. In 1918 he was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and fled to the Russian Soviet Republic for the remainder of his life / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938335: Harriet Quimby 1875-1912 in the Moisant monoplane in which she learned to fly. In 1911 she became the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States and was the first woman to fly across the English Channel April 16 1912. She died in a flying accident in July 1912. LC-USZ62-15070 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938440: President Reagan delivering his last State of the Union address. Reagan displayed a 43 pound 'behemoth' the Federal budget and called for a 'drastic overhaul' of the budget process. Behind Reagan are VP George Bush and Speaker Jim Wright. January 25 198. PO-USP-USC-Reagan_NA-12-0091M / Bridgeman Images