Penny Richards' photos with the keyword: women

Secondhand purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Photo of actresses knitting c1915, from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Secondhand purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Photo of actresses knitting c1915, from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Thrifted orange purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Features images from the suffrage movement. On this side, suffrage marchers in Washington DC, 1913, image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Thrifted orange purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Features images from the suffrage movement. On this side, two suffrage posters from the 1910s.

Thrifted dark purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Features images of women swimmers from the 1910s. Images shown here are Annette Kellerman, Mina Wylie, Elsie Sutton, Edna Cole, and Martha Hagstadt.

Thrifted dark purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Features images of women swimmers from the 1910s. Image shown here is Claire Galligan, from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons. www.ishof.org/Honorees/70/70cgalligan.html

Thrifted dark purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Features an image of suffragists including Elisabeth Freeman (1876-1942), who also did an anti-lynching investigation for the NAACP, in 1916.

Thrifted dark purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Features an image of suffragists including Elisabeth Freeman (1876-1942), who also did an anti-lynching investigation for the NAACP, in 1916. Image shown here is from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Recycled cardboard, paint, ink, sharpies, paper collage. Original images from the National Library of Wales and the Library of Congress, both on Flickr Commons.

Recycled cardboard, paint, ink, sharpies, paper collage. Original image of Adeline Hagerup from the Edvard Grieg Archives, Bergen Public Library (Norway), on Flickr Commons.

Postcards made from recycled cardboard from cereal boxes, paint, paper collage, sharpies, inks, modpodge. Image of geographer Hilda Ormsby from the Flickr Commons uploads of the London School of Economics (see below); image of model Evelyn Nesbit from the Flickr Commons uploads of the Library of Congress (see below).

Postcards made from recycled cardboard from cereal boxes, paint, paper collage, sharpies, inks, modpodge. Images of feminists Maud Younger (1870-1936) and Katharine Dexter McCormick (1875-1967) from the Flickr Commons uploads from the Library of Congress (see below).

Thrifted pink purse, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, paper collage, modpodge, sharpies. Image of the Women's Curling Champions, Alberta, 1955, from the Galt Museum and Archives on Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted suitcase, upcycled with gesso, paint, modpodge, paper collage, ink, sharpies, and krylon. Images are tintypes from the Liljenquist collection recently donated to the Library of Congress and uploaded to Flickr Commons in the set "Civil War Faces." www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/7215762552...

Thrifted "Melbourne Bags" vintage purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, modpodge, sharpies, and inks. Image of Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg and Birdie Gans (both child development experts from the early 20c.) from the Smithsonian uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted "Melbourne Bags" vintage purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, modpodge, sharpies, and inks. Image of Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg and Birdie Gans (both child development experts from the early 20c.) from the Smithsonian uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

We're in the International Postcard Swap for Families 2011, organized by Zoe Toft of the blog "Playing By the Book": www.playingbythebook.net/2011-international-postcard-swap... We made our postcards from recycled boxes (like cereal boxes, cookie boxes, cracker boxes); all the images are historical photos of women and children, and all are from Flickr Commons (see below). The painted backgrounds are by me, the sharpie marker parts are by both me and my daughter. There's also some rubber stamping and inking. This image of Justine Wise and her mother Louise Waterman Wise, 1920, is from the Center for Jewish History NYC uploads to Flickr Commons.

Created for the NASA remix Challenge #12 - The Heart Of Space A thrifted black purse that I upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, inks, paper collage, and modpodge. The background painting was inspired by the NASA Remix Project's current challenge, which includes the "Heart of Orion" image this time. www.flickr.com/groups/nasa-remix/discuss/72157623329574336/ The foreground is an image from the GRIN Archives (Great Images in NASA), an online collection of historical images. It's from 1964, and features Melba Roy, a mathematician at Goddard Space Flight Center, in front of a very large IBM computer. (#64-H-2487). SOLD 2/10.