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First step in women's suffrage in Japan - Minister of the Imperial Railroad (Heikichi?) Ogawa gives equal rights to women employees, Tokyo, Japan – Antique Print

First step in women's suffrage in Japan - Minister of the Imperial Railroad (Heikichi?) Ogawa gives equal rights to women employees, Tokyo, Japan, [between ca. 1927 and 1929?] — historic photograph
First step in women's suffrage in Japan - Minister of the Imperial Railroad (Heikichi?) Ogawa gives equal rights to women employees, Tokyo, Japan, [between ca. 1927 and 1929?]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures First step in women's suffrage in Japan - Minister of the Imperial Railroad (Heikichi?) Ogawa gives equal rights to women employees, Tokyo, Japan in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Here a Japanese railway minister is pictured in Tokyo, with a caption describing him as granting equal rights to women employees of the Imperial Railways as a "first step" toward women's suffrage. The caption's name and date are marked as unverified, so the exact moment is uncertain, though the image is usually placed in the late 1920s. Women in Japan did not win the national vote until after World War II, in 1945, so a labor measure like this was notable for its time. Railway work offers a useful window into that period, when women were taking on more public and industrial roles.

Created / published[between ca. 1927 and 1929?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. S/313x313. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Japan--History...; BI; Railroads--Hist.; Women...; Voters...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152572

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