The Ebor Falls haven’t diminished much in beauty between 1900 and today.

Powerhouse Museum	neoxx
THEN	NOW

King Street at George Street, Sydney, Australia, with a few years time between them. Visit the one on the right to see notes about the buildings in the photograph then and now.

State Records New South Wales	Powerhouse Museum
THEN – 1888	and … THEN! – 1900s

In 1920, angry suffragettes burned and smashed the Kew Gardens in the name of women’s right to vote. Today, women have the vote and the gardens are tranquil, having been rebuilt in 1920.

Library of Congress	whatsthatpicture
THEN	NOW

Built in 1629, the Our Lady of Guadalupe church at the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico still stands today. On the left is a photograph taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan in the 1870s. On the right, the same scene as shot by Tony Klesert in 2008. See here for more information on the restoration efforts on this building and on the amazing Zuni murals inside.

New York Public Library	CaZen
THEN	NOW

Fujiyama, from Otometoge

New York Public Library	tarawo
THEN	NOW

The Library of Congress catalogued this 1942 image by Andreas Feininger as being near Creede, Colorado. Comments on the photograph led me to find its real location — the old US Route 40, west of Denver, a few hundreds miles to the north.

Library of Congress	zyrcster
THEN	NOW

See here for the whole story.

Kaasmarkt Alkmaar

Nationaal Archief	nielsamd
THEN	NOW

Pont Valentré, aval, Cahors

A 14th-century bridge, designed for defense.

Bibliothèque de Toulouse	garethac
THEN	NOW

Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress	brownpau
THEN	NOW

Reshooting an old image is great way to do a now and then series. But how about overlaying the then-photo within the new-photo? Check out Jason Powell’s Looking into the Past set on Flickr.

Looking into the Past: Union Station Square, Washington, DC, by jasonepowell

International Women’s Day is celebrated across the globe annually on March 8. We honor this day with a pair of photos demonstrating the power that women have achieved in the past 100 years.

Library of Congress	James Gordon
THEN	NOW

Taken circa 1910, this portrait of Elisabeth Freeman at a suffragette rally shows the tenacity of women struggling to attain voting rights. Freeman braved arrest and a brutal wintertime march, the Suffrage Hike, from New York City to President Wilson’s White House, in protest of the inability of women to vote.

Fast forward to 2005, where we witness an Iraqi woman having her finger inked after casting a vote at a polling station in Mosul, Iraq. The photographer, James Gordon (jamesdale10 on Flickr), was deployed to Iraq in 2005 as the Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division (Baghdad) public affairs photographer, where he documented Corps reconstruction and new construction activities in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, including this historic vote.

Hind Fadhil, a young woman, called an American-run talk show, ”Your Voice,” from the Arab neighborhood of Islah Zirai, which residents of Mosul refer to as an insurgent stronghold, to explain why some on the west bank went to the polls despite the danger.

”We didn’t care,” she said. ”We just wanted to vote.” —New York Times, Feb. 3, 2005

See more photos from various Commons’ institutions that celebrate this great day of women.