One For The Road: Happy International Women's Day

Caption: Woman\'s Party Demonstration Outside President Wilson\'s Meeting in Chicago. Oct. 21, 1916. Women suffrage activists wearing suffrage sashes demonstrating with signs at city street corner. Signs read \"President Wilson How Long Do You Advise Us to Wait?\", \"Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Suffrage\", \"Wilson is Against Women,\" and \"Why Does Wilson Seek Votes From Women When He Opposes Votes For Women.\" Originally published on the cover of The Suffragist.

Chicago Woman\'s Club members, woman standing on a platform in front of a group of women sitting outside a building in 1928. Chicago Daily News.

Half-length informal portrait of Mrs. William H. Winslow, president of the Chicago Woman\'s Club, reading a book and sitting in a chair in a room in Chicago in 1920. Chicago History Museum.\r\n

Group portrait of women, Turngemeinde members, some doing handstands in an elaborate demonstration on and around parallel bars in a gymnasium in Chicago in 1907. Chicago History Museum.

Half-length portrait of First Methodist Episcopal Women\'s basketball player Lillian Burress holding a basketball over her head standing in front of a dark background in a room in Chicago in 1909. Chicago History Museum.

Half-length portrait of two Pageant of Progress Queens, Laurette Methe of Crawford Harrison (left ) and Frances Muchowski of Blue Island (right) sitting together outside at Municipal Pier (now Navy Pier) in Chicago in 1922. Chicago History Museum.

Portrait of the thirteen members of the 1933 Women\'s World Fair Board posing at a table in a room in Chicago in 1926. Eight women are sitting at a table and five women are standing behind them. Two women are visible standing in the background. The fair they were planning became the 1933 Century of Progress World\'s Fair. Chicago History Museum.