Activism Collection

Nina Simone, Mstricht Jazz Festival, 1992. Creator: Brian Foskett
Nina Simone, Mstricht Jazz Festival, 1992. Simone was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist

Mabel Tuke, Joint Honourary Secretary of the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU), c1908. Mabel Tuke (1871-1962), also known as Pansy

W.D. Haywood leads Lowell strike parade, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
W.D. Haywood leads Lowell strike parade, 1912. Shows William Dudley (Big Bill) Haywood, an American labor movement leader, marching with strikers in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Damage done by London Suffragettes, March 1912, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Damage done by London Suffragettes, March 1912, between c1910 and c1915.

Jessie Wilson, Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Jessie Wilson, Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 1912.

Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby, 1911.

Dr. Anna Shaw in Wall Street, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Dr. Anna Shaw in Wall Street, 1911.

Mrs. Nellie van Slingerland, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Nellie van Slingerland, 1914.

Mrs. Pankhurst in doorway, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Pankhurst in doorway, 1913.

Mrs. Inez Milholland posing with scroll of paper, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Inez Milholland posing with scroll of paper, 1910.

Norman Mack, Robert Crain, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Norman Mack, Robert Crain, 1912. Norman E. Mack and Robert Crain probably at the Democratic Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, June 1912.

Mrs. J. Speyer, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. J. Speyer, 1910. Ellin Leslie Prince Lowery Speyer (Mrs. James Speyer) (1849-1921), renowned New York City philanthropist.

Mrs. S. Loebinger, New York, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. S. Loebinger, New York, 1910.

Maxim Gorky, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Maxim Gorky, 1910.

Mrs. Millicent Fawcett, portrait bust, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Millicent Fawcett, portrait bust, 1913.

Little Falls, Phil. Caley speaking on "Permitted" corner, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Little Falls, Phil. Caley speaking on "Permitted" corner, between c1910 and c1915.

Mrs. [Alva] Belmont at gunmen's trial, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. [Alva] Belmont at gunmen's trial, 1912. Probably related to the trial of "Lefty Louie" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis, and "Dago Frank" Cirofici

Jane Addams leaves Mercy Hospital, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Jane Addams leaves Mercy Hospital, 1912. Shows Jane Addams leaving Mercy Hospital in Chicago, after a visit with her friend, ex-President who was recovering from an assassination attempt in October

Eugenie Ladenburg, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Eugenie Ladenburg, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Eugenie Mary "May" Ladenburg Davie (1895-1975) was a noted Republican activist in New York and a director of the Pioneer Fund.

N.Y. Suffragettes, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
N.Y. Suffragettes, between c1910 and c1915.

N.Y. Suffragettes, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
N.Y. Suffragettes, between c1910 and c1915.

Damage by suffragettes, London, Mar. 1912, Bond St., 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Damage by suffragettes, London, Mar. 1912, Bond St., 1912.

Mrs. Pankhurst in Wall St., 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Pankhurst in Wall St., 1911. Shows a woman suffrage meeting in New York City, where British suffragist leader Emmeline Pankhurst addressed a crowd near the Subtreasury Building on Wall Street

Kate Richards O'Hare, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Kate Richards O'Hare, between c1915 and c1920.

Helen Keller, standing next to tree, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Helen Keller, standing next to tree, 1912.

Mrs. J. Hardy Stubbs, Miss Ida Craft, Miss Rosalie Jones, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. J. Hardy Stubbs, Miss Ida Craft, Miss Rosalie Jones, between c1910 and c1915. Shows 3 suffragists with bag "Votes for Women pilgrim leaflets."

Irving Bertman presents flowers to Helen Keller, Flower Show, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Irving Bertman presents flowers to Helen Keller, Flower Show, 1913. Shows Helen Keller (1880-1968) with her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936)

Suffrage parade, Inez Milholland, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Suffrage parade, Inez Milholland, 1913. Shows lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain riding astride in the suffrage parade as the first of four mounted heralds

The late Walter Savage Landor, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The late Walter Savage Landor, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Herbert Watkins. Our readers may...look with some interest upon the portrait of a man of great originality and force of mind

Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985), a singer and performer of Creek and Cherokee ancestry

Suf. [i.e. suffrage] parade, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Suf. [i.e. suffrage] parade, 1917. Shows women carrying a ballot box in a women's suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 27, 1917

H.C. Wallace, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
H.C. Wallace, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924), Secretary of Agriculture during President Harding's Administration

Maxim Gorky, seated with heavy coat on, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Maxim Gorky, seated with heavy coat on, 1910

Healy, Fitzgerald, Mahon, Frayne, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Healy, Fitzgerald, Mahon, Frayne, 1916. Shows Timothy Healy, William B. Fitzgerald, William D. Mahon, Hugh Frayne (general organizer in New York for the American Federation of Labor)

Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. portrait photograph, 1918 July 2. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. portrait photograph, 1918 July 2. American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist and patron of the arts Agnes E

Miss Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg, portrait photograph, 1918. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Miss Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg, portrait photograph, 1918. American author and social activist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 2020s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 2020s, (2023). Desmond Mpilo Tutu (1931-2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus, 1950s, (2023). African-American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1990s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1990s, (2023). Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s, (2023). Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981

Le Nouveau Regime; Catherine Brechkovsky, la rentree de Siberie a la faveur du changement de regime, 1917. First World War: the New Regime - Catherine Breshkovsky

AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1930s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1930s, (2023). Shaw, (1856-1950), was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1920s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1920s, (2023). Shaw, (1856-1950), was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Nelson Mandela, 2000s, (2023). Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Muhammad Ali standing in a boxing ring, 1960s, (2023). Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (1942-2016), was an African-American professional boxer and activist

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