·MUJERES ARMADAS·

1885, State Library and Archive of Florida.

1915, State Library and Archive of Florida.

1910, the Library of Congress

A young First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, in 1891.

1920, Montana State University Libraries

Hunting 1901 national library of Ireland.

Harriet Hammond, President of Nemours Gun Club, 

the first women’s shooting club in America.  

Image taken between 1910-1915.

Nemours Club (1910-1915).

Nemours Club (1910-1915)

Shooting off roller skates.

Annie Oakley (famous sharpshooter)

Miss Annie Oakley, the Peerless Lady Wing-Shot.

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley with Winchester Model (1892)

Annie Oakley

Miss May Lillie, 1908 by FREDERICK GLASIER

Carnival Performer, Elly del Sarto  c. 1910

“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African American carrier for the US Postal Service. Despite her age, she never missed a day of work in the ten years she carried the mail and earned the nickname “Stagecoach” for her reliability. Fields loved the job, despite the many dangers and difficulties such as wolves and thieves (she was an excellent marksman, defending her route with a revolver and a rifle). The people of Cascade so loved and respected Fields, that each year on her birthday they closed the schools to celebrate the occasion. They even built her a new house when she lost her home in a fire in 1912.

A couple of Crack Shots of Holt Country Nebraska

Woman training for Spanish militia Barcelona (1936)  

by GERDA TARO

Militia women, Spanish War 

by GERDA TARO.

17 year old Maria Jinesta a top the Colen Hotel in Barcelona, ca. 1936

Militia women, Spanish Civil War.

Republican militia women. Spanish Civil War.

Republican militia women. Spanish Civil War.

Spain 936-39.  Women in the Spanish revolution.

Spain. Civil War in Madrid, 1937. 

Cuatro Caminos militia women

Members of the Sydir Kovpak partisan detachment in the Ukrainian SSR.

Red Army female snipers in a dugout in 1944.

Woman soldier of the Red Army, Russia, Great Patriotic War, 1941.

by BERNARD HOFFMAN (1914)

by WILLIAM GEDNEY

The Girls and Guns Club University of Chicago (1940)

Ladies champion team 

of the Missouri University shooting club, 1934

Lessons in badness, Detroit, 1929

Natalie Wood photographed by RALPH CRANE  for Life Magazine, 1956

Artillery practise for Chicago policewomen Chicago (1974)