Gallery for Madison G

Upcycled eyeglass cases, featuring copyright-free images from Flickr Commons.

Secondhand purse upcycled with paint, ink, paper collage. Image of nurses is from a 1946 group photo from the National LIbrary of Ireland. (Their names were Kitty Walsh and Edna Barry.)

Images of Jeanette Rankin, first woman elected to the US Congress (in 1916, from Montana) from the Library of Congress. Thrifted purse upcycled with paint, ink, paper collage.

Images of Jeanette Rankin, first woman elected to the US Congress (in 1916, from Montana) from the Library of Congress. Thrifted purse upcycled with paint, ink, paper collage.

Secondhand purse, upcycled with paint, paper collage, ink, modpodge. Photo of actresses knitting c1915, from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Secondhand purse upcycled with paint, ink, paper collage. Original image of pilot Barbara Kibbel Jayne from San Diego Air and Space Museum uploads to Flickr Commons. www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/8392303081

Secondhand purse upcycled with paint, ink, paper collage; images of women botanists from the Smithsonian Institution's uploads to Flickr Commons: Kathleen Beyer Blackburn: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3322780248 Ethel Grace Stiffler: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/8491336963 Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3379012856 Marian Irwin Osterhout: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/5493881239

Secondhand purse upcycled with paint, ink, paper collage; images of women botanists from the Smithsonian Institution's uploads to Flickr Commons: Kathleen Beyer Blackburn: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3322780248 Ethel Grace Stiffler: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/8491336963 Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3379012856 Marian Irwin Osterhout: www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/5493881239

Made with a thriftshop purse, paint, ink, paper collage, mod podge; the image is from the George Eastman House uploads to Flickr Commons. The dial faces on the side are by HerbertW on DeviantArt.