The Original "Bloomer Girls"
(Courtesy of Peterboro, New York Area Museum)
Amelia Jenks Bloomer, lecturer as well as editor and publisher of The Lily
(Left photograph courtesy of the Historical Society of Middletown and the Wallkill Precinct Incorporated, Middletown, New York; Right photograph courtesy of Deborah Fontana Cooney)
Dr. Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck, hydropathist, lecturer, and editor of The Sibyl: A Review of the Tastes, Errors and Fashions of Society, the official newsletter of the National Dress Reform Association (NDRA)
(Courtesy of Illustrated News, 28 May 1853)
Lucy Stone, women's rights activist, lecturer, and contributer to The Lily and The Sibyl
(Courtesy of Catherine Smith, co-author of Women in Pants, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)
Unidentified woman, c. 1851
(Courtesy of Daguerreian History: A Search For America web site)
Unidentified woman, c. 1850-1855
(Courtesy of the Gernsheim Collection)
Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, c. 1858
(Courtesy of Our Army Nurses web site)
Unidentified Civil War nurse, c. 1861-1865
(Courtesy of Deborah Fontana Cooney)
Mrs. Phillips, resident of Our Home on the Hill health center in Dansville, New York; c. 1864
(Courtesy of Deborah Fontana Cooney)
Lucy J. Russell (1830-1892), resident of Our Home on the Hill health center in Dansville, New York; c. 1864
(Courtesy of Catherine Smith, co-author of Women in Pants, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)
Lizzie Stamp, c. 1864
(Courtesy of Catherine Smith, co-author of Women in Pants, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers)
Katy Johnson, c. 1864-65
(Courtesy of the Gernsheim Collection)
Dr. Mary Walker, medical doctor, c. 1865
(Courtesy of Seward Osborne)
Unidentified woman, c. 1860-1870
(Courtesy of Deborah Fontana Cooney)
Dr. Harriet Austin, physician and co-director of Our Home on the Hill health center in Dansville, New York; c. 1865-1867
(Courtesy of Deborah Fontana Cooney)
Mary E. Tillotson, charter member of the National Dress Reform Association; c. 1866-1870
(Courtesy of the Oakland Museum, California)
Marietta Stow, political figure under the Reform and Equal Rights parties, ran for governor of California in 1882; photograph c. 1884
(Courtesy of the Webmaster's collection)
Unidentified woman, c. 1885-90
