Michaelangelo's David was unveiled in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 1504

We're back from a brief study break with a resounding YES BY ALL MEANS, MORE THAN EVER, WEAR A SUMMER DRESS TODAY!

Lewis and Clark leave Pittsburgh, PA to begin their expedition west at 11am, 1803

YES.

Map of the Lewis and Clark expedition

Pittsburg, 1797

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens connecting Seattle to Medina, Washington, 1963

YES.

Katharine McCormick was born, 1875

DEFINITELY wear a summer dress.


Katharine McCormick was an American biologist, suffragist, and philanthropist, who funded the research behind the first birth control pill in 1957.

Peggy Guggenheim was born, 1898 / 19th Amendment went into effect, 1920

Wear a dress!

Elizabeth Cady Stanton + Susan B. Anthony, 1900

Peggy Guggenheim in Paris, 1930

Peggy in Venice

Dorothea Tanning was born, 1910

You may wear a dress.

Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning

Thomas Edison acquired the patent for the Kinetoscope, the first motion picture exhibition device, 1891

No dresses today.

Kinetoscope

Sheet of images from Monkeyshines

Monkeyshines was an experimental film produced to test the Kinetoscope (and the first film shot in the U.S.).