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Lady Astor
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Original Author: Bain News Service, publisher
Created: April 19, 1922
Medium: Glass-plate negative

Lady Astor

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, viscountess Astor, the first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons, arrives in New York City on the RMS Olympic oceanliner on April 19, 1922. Lady Astor was elected to Parliament in 1919.

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