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November 6, 2012

Ninety-Two Years of Women Voting, in Pictures

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Photo: Mike Stewart/Corbis

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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1922  Photo: National Photo Company/Corbis
1928  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1932  Photo: KEYSTONE FRANCE/Getty Images
1933  Photo: New York Times Co./Getty Images
1940  Photo: U.S. Office of War Information/Corbis
1948  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1955  Photo: John G. Moebes/Corbis
1955  Photo: John G. Moebes/Corbis
1960  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
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1960  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1962  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1964  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1966  Photo: Flip Schulke/Corbis
1966  Photo: Flip Schulke/Corbis
1967  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
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1972  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1974  Photo: Michael Webb/Getty Images
1977  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1979  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1980  Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
1982  Photo: Mike Stewart/Corbis
1984  Photo: Bill Pierce/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
1992  Photo: Peter Turnley/Corbis
1996  Photo: Ira Wyman/Sygma/Corbis
2004  Photo: Rebecca Cook/Reuters/Corbis
2006  Photo: PhilMcCarten/Reuters/Corbis
2008  Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Corbis
2008  Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP/Corbis
2008  Photo: Michal Czerwonka/epa/Corbis
2010  Photo: Michael REynolds/epa/Corbis
2010  Photo: M. Spencer Green/AP/Corbis
2012  Photo: Mark Lennihan/Corbis
2012  Photo: Matt Rourke/AP/Corbis
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