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November 6, 2012

Ninety-Two Years of Women Voting, in Pictures

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In bustle skirts, hoop skirts, and power suits, they pulled levers, checked boxes, and touched screens. As you cast your ballot today, enjoy a gallery of archival images of American women voting, from 1920 — the year after the Nineteenth Amendment passed — to now. (Above, vintage Bill and Hillary Clinton.)

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2004  Photo: Rebecca Cook/Reuters/Corbis
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