Rankin delivers her first full speech on the House Floor on August 7, 1917.

Here, in a rare photograph of the House in session, Jeannette Rankin addresses her colleagues during her first term in Congress, 1917–1919.

Rankin delivers her first full speech on the House Floor on August 7, 1917. Rankin addressed the need for federal intervention in copper mining during a period of unrest between labor unions and mining companies.