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In museum catalogs and archives, bias lurks in the smallest details. While male artists were simply 'painters,' women were often labeled 'lady painters' or defined through their relationships to men. These subtle language choices reveal how gender bias shaped art history, and challenge us to preserve context while moving toward more equitable descriptions.

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Wife of the ex - speaker .x000D Mrs J M Whitley , wife of the ex - speaker .x000D 5 September 1928

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Mrs Cohen , wife of Major J B Brunel Cohen , MP , buys the racehorse " Hideaway " .x000D 16 April 1925

Wellcome Collection

Wife of an apothecary with the tools, costume and apparatus of her trade.

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Wife of the Governor General of New Zealand.x000D Lady Galway (right) wife of the Governor General of new Zealand Viscount Galway, with Mrs A F Purvis wife of Major Purvis, military secretary to Lord Galway.x000D

National Academic Library and Information System Foundation

Anastasia Obretenova (1860-1926). Wife of Zahari Stoyanov.

German Documentation Center for Art History - Marburg Picture Index
German Documentation Center for Art History - Marburg Picture Index
Deutsche Fotothek

Walli Nagel (wife of the painter Otto Nagel) with daughter Sibylle in her apartment

Estonian History Museum
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Former wife of Charles Chaplin makes up for a late arrival in London .x000D Lita Gray Chaplin , former wife of Charles Chaplin , the film comedian , rested at her London hotel after having arrived from America at midnight at the end of a rough crossing .x…

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Wife of railway employee and daughter of Mayor and Mayoress .x000D Mrs E F George the wife of a railway employee , and her daughter Miss Connie George , tomorrow commence their duties as Myor and Mayoress of bermondsey , London . Mrs George has been a ver…

National Library of France

Part of the documentary ensemble: Rtmgus1

National Library of France

Bibliographical Reference: Rol, 42821; Part of the documentary ensemble: Pho20Rol

Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Siamese lady of title, wife of Prime Minister, 1866 18. Bears Thomson's negative number: "1110" Signed.

Museum of City History Leipzig

Glass positive, 9.7 x 8.3 cm, photography by Mrs. Jentsch, wife of Pastor Jentsch; oval image on black background

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Wife of Japan 's richest man who is visiting France and England in the Spring .x000D Baroness Hachiroemon Mitsui , Tokio 's foremost hostess , who possesses the patrician type of face that the Japanese most admire in a woman .x000D 21 January 1925

Rijksmuseum

Studioportret van de echtgenote van de regent van Blora; vrouw zittend aan een tafeltje. Ingeplakte foto in het fotoalbum getiteld: Gezichten van Java.

Germanisches National Museum
Jewish Historical Museum

The wife of Joël Peper, circa 1935

Jewish Historical Museum

Wedding photo of the wife of Heinz Thomas (Tom) Stein, ca. 1950-1960, from the estate of Ruth Margot Stein-Kantorowicz