And it is a lenticular, which has a special effect so that as you walk by the image changes between the two. And we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention, and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit, but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So lets head now into the lawrence f. Obrien gallery, where rightfully hers is on display. So this is a National Archives exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but it is more than a 19th amendment exhibition. Thats because the 19th amendment, landmark Voting Rights victory that it was for women, did not give all women the right to vote. Millions of women were already voters by the time the 19th amendment was added to the constitution, but millions of women for reasons other than their sex remained unable to vote. And so this exhibit looks at that story as well. We have this introductory video here that is also meant to grab peoples attention and pull them
Hi, im corinne porter. Im a curator here at the National Archives museum. Im going to show you around the rightfully hers exhibition today, which is in the lawrence f. Obrien gallery. Before we head into the gallery i wanted to talk about this lenticular thats out in the lobby in front of the entrance. It has a photograph of the 1913 womens suffrage march, looking up pennsylvania avenue towards the United States capitol, and it is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue as well. And it is a lenticular, which has a special effect so that as you walk by the image changes between the two. And we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention, and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit, but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So lets head now into the lawrence f. Obrien gallery, where rightfully hers is on display. So this is a National Archives exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of t
It has a photograph of the 1913 womens suffrage march, looking up pennsylvania avenue towards the United States capitol, and it is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue as well. And it is a lenticular, which has a special effect so that as you walk by the image changes between the two. And we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention, and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit, but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So lets head now into the lawrence f. Obrien gallery, where rightfully hers is on display. So this is a National Archives exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but it is more than a 19th amendment exhibition. Thats because the 19th amendment, landmark Voting Rights victory that it was for women, did not give all women the right to vote. Millions of women were already voters by the time the 19th amendment was added to the constitution, but mi
It is an exhibition at the National Portrait gallery at the at the smithsonian institution. Of astanding in front large blowup of a german born actress. As columbia, the allegorical figure, during the conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington d c. That is just one event of the long Suffrage Movement that this highlights. Objects that go into the long history beginning in 1832 and 21920. The 19thcarrying amendment and what it did not do. Right took the exhibition up to the voting acts right Voting Rights act. We are going to explore the 1913 parade, more in depth. Standing in front of a postcard of the parade, organized by alice paul. This is a completely different tactic than what had been done before by other suffragists. What alice paul was trying to do was create headlines. After spending some time in britain, she got radicalized by the british suffragette and learned how to create attention grabbing spectacles. U. S. She came back to the in 1911 and 1912, she organized with the c
Museum. Im winning interpretation here at the museum and thank you all for coming out this evening for this very special event. A few housekeeping i have before we begin let because of your wonderful old historic boarding house here in Downtown Washington we do not have restrooms available on this floor. If anyone should need to use the restroom during the course of the program please see alyssa right behind you and she could lead you to where you need to go. This is a pay what you please program this evening meaning that the conclusion will have to give and a negotiation and a Non Profit Organization and supporting the memberships and your donation will directly support the programs of education here at the missing Soldiers Office. A donation boxes just outside your way downstairs through the elevator. Now on to this evenings program. How many of you have been here to the missing Soldiers Office before . A show of hands. Quite a few of you, excellent. Who those of you having your firs