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This is an RCA ribbon/velocity microphone with a bi-directional polar response that was manufactured circa 1949.

This is an RCA ribbon/velocity microphone with a bi-directional polar response that was manufactured circa 1938.

This is an RCA ribbon/velocity microphone with a bi-directional polar response that was manufactured circa 1933.

Cartoon depicts the major events of the year as a Russian ballet, including a depiction of British politician Henry Asquith and his opposition to the women's suffrage movement

Cartoon showing the crowd of suffragists. Caption reads "Mr. Haldane (thinking Territorially), "Ah! If only I could get the men to come forward like that!"

Broadside in response to the argument that women's suffrage is a good war measure

Betty Ford greeting reporters the day after Nixon's resignation as president. She is wearing a dress with Frankie Welch's Fifty State Flowers design.

Portrait of Betty Ford wearing a dress designed by her friend Frankie Welch. Ford donated this dress to represent her in the Smithsonian Institution’s First Ladies Collection.

Frankie Welch giving a talk at the University of Georgia, likely about her exhibition entitled Frankie Welch Designs. Multiple of her past designs can be seen in the background, such as the Nixon inauguration and the Betty Ford scarves.

Frankie Welch in her shop with two of her 1968 designs: a dress made from the Republican National Convention fabric and the Hubert H. Humphrey H-line dress