Tomorrow is the inauguration of the first African-American president in the United States, Barack Obama.

And this election year there was a strong contest that involved a female candidate, Hillary Clinton.

But this certainly wasn't the beginning of women's involvement in the political world, as evidenced just a bit by today's photo, although on a rather different level.


This information with this picture, submitted by Judy Dailey of Upper Gwynedd, notes:

"Globe-conscious, modern-day Betsy Rosses of the Montgomeryville Homemakers Club, who made the first hand-sewn UN flag in the Philadelphia area, work on a second at the Lansdale home of Mrs. Edmond G. Bigoney, club president."

Shown from left are Mrs. Edwin Stanley, Mrs. Boyd Clowney, Mrs. Malcolm MacFarland Jr., Mrs. Bigoney and Mrs. Albert Greenberg.

Mrs. Clowney was Dailey's mother, and she said the club "got quite a bit accomplished" in its day. She also noted that she wished she knew what happened to the flags.

We don't have a date for this photo, but Dailey estimated it was the late 1940s or early 1950s.

And obviously it was before newspapers, and society, changed to using a woman's first name when identifying her, instead of linking her to her husband.