When it comes to sexual equality, until 1919 women were not guaranteed the right to vote and it was not until the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 that women legally had to be paid the same as men for the same job. In Alaska, women were voting before the 19th Amendment and as can be seen here, it was perfectly acceptable for women to play poker and drink in public in 1903. In other parts of America, this would have been a photograph of shame. However, none of these women seem concerned that they were about to be in ‘a snapshot of history.’
[From THE HUMAN FACE OF THE ALASKA GOLD RUSH.]