“Sew on Your Own Buttons, I’m Going for a Ride!”
![Stereograph depicting a woman in breeches watching a man do laundry. A bicycle is placed in the background.](http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/The-new-womanwash-day--800x413.jpg)
The New Woman – Wash Day, c. 1901
![Stereograph depicting a woman in breeches giving orders to a man. The woman holds a bicycle while the man is cleaning dishes. Two small children sit on the floor in the foreground.](http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Have-dinner-at-one-dear--800x404.jpg)
William Herman Rau, Have Dinner at One Dear, c. 1897
![Stereograph depicting a woman in breeches holding out a pair of drawers towards a seated man and child. The man wears an apron and holds a broom.](http://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/Sew-on-your-own-buttons-Im-going-for-a-ride--800x395.jpg)
Sew on Your Own Buttons, I’m Going for a Ride. c. 1896
Melody Davis. “The New Woman in American Stereoviews, 1871-1905,” in Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, eds., The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dcbooks/9475509.0001.001/1:4/–new-woman-international-representations-in-photography?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1#4.1
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