# Jeannette Rankin, Bain News Service, facing front

- By: Adam Cuerden
- Date: 1917-02-27
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.23837. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
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- Rights: Public domain
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973), a member of the United States House of Representatives who was elected in 1916 as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. Glass negative 5 x 7 in. or smaller.