Women in politics

Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense, welcomes the members of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

A receiving line during a reception honoring Democratic National Committee Vice-Chairman India Edwards (center) in Indiana. All other individuals are unidentified.

Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee (center); with Mrs. Blanche Fritz, Democratic Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois (left), and an unidentified committee member.

An unidentified speaker at a Democratic Party Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. In attendance are Vice-President Alben Barkley (third from left) and Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee (fourth from left). All others are unidentified.

Mrs. India Edwards, Volunteer in the Women's Division of Democratic National Committee (front, center) with her unidentified secretary (back) in their New York Office. All others are unidentified.

Democratic National Committee Vice-Chairman India Edwards (center) with two unidentified women, possibly at an event in Texas.

Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee, with Mr. Oliver Carter, California State Democratic Party Chairman, at the Western States Democratic Conference held in San Francisco, California. Others are unidentified.

Democratic National Committee Vice-Chairman Mrs. India Edwards at the Carlton Hotel. From left to right: Journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Eda Brannan, and Florence Jaffray (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman.

Mrs. India Edwards, Women's Director, Democratic National Committee, (left) gives Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (right) a hug after the Congresswoman's speech before the Democratic National Convention.

The First Lady, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, with various women Democratic Party leaders. From left to right: United States Ambassador to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, Mrs. Truman, Treasurer of the United States Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, Democratic National Committee Vice-Chair India Edwards, and Mrs. Gladys Avery Tillett.